super dragon ball heroes episode 12 discussion

Part of Super Hero’s approach of following up on these old arcs is how it essentially picks up where Gohan’s brief time in the spotlight left off, originally meant to inherit his father’s mantle as a defender of Earth, something cemented by his defeat of Cell.

It’s a follow up to Broly as well as an older era of the series - more specifically, that of Dragon Ball’s Red Ribbon Army Saga and then Dragon Ball Z’s Android Saga ending with the Cell Games, which for a time felt like a genuine status quo shift to the series as a whole, putting Gohan in the center, before other plans got in the way. But, it also must be noted that even as Piccolo is clearly a big old softie (despite his sternness) as well as the better father, this is also a movie that begins with him kicking a 3-year-old into a rock (she’s fine).

It turns its action spectacle into a love letter to the bond between one-time villain Piccolo and his surrogate son Gohan – emphasizing that parental relationship to the point where Piccolo even forgets that when Gohan’s daughter Pan says “grandfather,” she means Goku and not him. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero manages to succeed in a lot of the same ways, with a few differences and new tricks up its sleeve.ĭirected by Tetsuro Kodama (who also worked on the first Dragon Ball Super movie, Broly) and with the close involvement of series creator Akira Toriyama, where Broly had the emotional hook in the introduction of Broly as a tragic victim of patriarchal abuse, Super Hero is a more sentimental reunion of the series’ most stable father-son relationship. The recent Dragon Ball Super: Broly managed to answer all of this, delivering a new take on an old fan favorite character in a straightforward, white-knuckle brawler that at the same time took the series back to its paternalistic interests. A franchise as old as Dragon Ball - a series at this point (among others) synonymous with the proliferation of anime television in the West - comes with a lot of baggage, fan expectation, increasingly labyrinthine continuity, and perhaps diminishing returns on its best qualities.

Super dragon ball heroes episode 12 discussion