Super Dragon Ball Heroes
2018
Original language: Japanese
- animation
- action & adventure
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in the Prison Planet, a mysterious complex in an unknown place in the universes. The group seeks the dragon balls to free Trunks, but an endless battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet?
What it’s like
Bright, saturated cel animation with hard outlines, flat colour fills and glossy energy effects that flare white and gold during fights, the palette shifting from sunlit grassland and clean city skylines to the cold grey-blue corridors of a sealed prison world. Camera work is kinetic and loud: rapid cuts, zooms into punches, speed lines and screen shake, with the pacing set almost entirely by battle sequences rather than quiet scenes. The soundtrack leans on bombastic orchestral swells and synth-tinged brass, with shouted attacks and sharp impact effects filling most of the runtime. Its vibe is high-energy, nostalgic and loud, the kind of thing for a Saturday-morning binge or a background watch while doing something else with the TV humming. Violence is constant and stylised: punches, energy blasts and beatdowns, bloody only in the faintest suggestion, with no gore and no sexual content, though the tension of a captured hero and an endless fight does keep the stakes feeling high. The arc is a loyal ensemble team pushing through escalating opponents, growing stronger together. It suits fans of the franchise and anyone who wants unbroken, unapologetic action with a sense of comic heart.
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