There is exactly one month and one week left until the premiere of Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO in theaters and Crunchyroll, which serves as a sequel to Dragon Ball Super: Broly, the first Dragon Ball movie to be set within the official canon. This has made us wonder if Dragon Ball Super: SUPERHERO is also part of the Canyonbecause until now there was no clear answer.
Today the first trailer for Dragon Ball Super: SÚPERHEROE was released in Latin American Spanish and its voice cast was confirmed, with Luis Manuel Ávila returning in the role of Son Gohan. In the trailer it was reconfirmed that Akira Toriyama he was in charge of the story, the script and the design of the original characters.
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Despite having an original story and script by Akira Toriyama, it had not been confirmed if the Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO movie is canon to the Dragon Ball Super anime, as when asked directly to Crunchyroll a representative promised to answer later. . However, a few weeks ago the editor of V-Jump confirmed that the story of Dragon Ball Super: SUPERHERO is developing in parallel to the Dragon Ball Super mangaboth supervised by Akira Toriyama.
A few weeks ago the film’s producer and editor-in-chief Akio Iyoku commented on this issue in an interview for V-Jump magazine, where he said that Toyotaro’s film and manga drive “two lines of Dragon Ball Super running”. In this interview Iyoku clarifies that the film was intended purely as a sequel to Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Since Akira Toriyama oversees both the manga and the movies, Iyoku says that “it’s like we have events running in parallel”.
Of course, Toriyama also diligently oversees the manga’s stories, so it’s like we have events running in parallel. In terms of timeline placement, we try not to build things too strictly; we would like to leave margins in the story to allow a greater degree of freedom.”
Iyoku uses Broly as an example of how they can have freedom when it comes to expanding the Dragon Ball canon, saying that he was an original anime character until “was brought into the world of the main series by Toriyama’s own hand” in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly is considered canon and Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO is a direct sequel, in addition to the fact that the producer and editor-in-chief of V-Jump said that the events of the film take place in parallel to those of the manga. Dragon Ball Super, so everything seems to indicate that Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO is canonAt least until the contrary is confirmed.