Series Information

Dragon Ball Heroes — including its upgrade to Super Dragon Ball Heroes in 2016 — is a card-based Japanese arcade game. Opponents take turns placing physical cards on the game’s platform to move characters around the play field to set up combo attacks and super moves while timing button presses on the machine itself. The games receive regular updates within an overarching series (e.g., “Evil Dragon Mission” series, “God Mission” series, etc.) adding new cards, loose story/plot points, and animated introduction sequences. Dragon Ball Heroes has received three Nintendo 3DS ports (Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X); like the arcade game, none of these have been localized and released outside of their native Japan.

Following the completion of the Dragon Ball Super TV series and during the lead-up to the 2018 theatrical Dragon Ball Super film, Bandai Namco, Shueisha, and Toei Animation announced a joint “promotional anime” for the Super Dragon Ball Heroes card-based arcade game. The series began with the Prison Planet arc from the arcade game’s “Universe Mission” series of updates (not to be confused with the Dragon Ball Super TV series’ “Universe Survival arc”). The series debuted on 01 July 2018, including a preliminary screening that same day at Aeon LakeTown in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture. It has since continued on into the arcade game’s “Big Bang Mission” and “Ultra God Mission” series of updates.

In addition to the ongoing storyline in the arcade game, Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga series in Saikyō Jump tells a similar version of events; the manga debuted in the magazine’s May 2018 issue as a continuation/follow-up to Nagayama’s previous Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which ran for ten standard chapters and received a collected edition release spanning two volumes.

All incarnations of the story feature Fu, a character originally created for the defunct MMORPG Dragon Ball Online. Fu also made a “re”appearance in Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 before also surfacing in Super Dragon Ball Heroes.

Series Episode Listing

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