The film follows the success of its predecessor, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which was reported by the official Dragon Ball news site to have earned over ¥12 billion ($107 million) at the worldwide box office. Super Hero marks the 21st Dragon Ball film in the franchise’s history and is the fourth film under the creative influence of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
Anime distributor and streaming service, Crunchyroll, released Super Hero on over 3,900 screens across North America, making it the widest ever opening for an anime. In the first weekend of its release last Friday, the film topped the US box office, earning almost double of Universal's survival thriller Beast and landing in first place with $20.1 million.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero broke Pokémon's 23 year standing box office record for an anime movie #SweeperHero pic.twitter.com/R61AMO6jlC
— Carthu (@carthusdojo) August 20, 2022
Super Hero has earned majorly favourable responses from critics and long-time fans alike, earning an aggregate rating of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, though verdict’s still out on whether its predecessor was the better film,
These Dragon Ball Super Hero reviews are wild pic.twitter.com/oWYhaXnwlf
— SLO (@SLOplays) August 22, 2022
Bro this is apart of the reason I don’t like dragon ball lmfao pic.twitter.com/F0rgv9oDBo
— Axolowen (@PorkGrinder) August 23, 2022
End of an era: Having run for eight years on Indian television, Dragon Ball Z, the most popular anime in the country amongst the likes of Naruto, Pokemon and Beyblade, was taken off air in 2009 due to licensing disagreements between Cartoon Network and Toonami.
With the advent of streaming services (both legal and otherwise) anime was made more accessible and to a wider audience. The community saw its highest peak in numbers in India, as well as all over the world since its conception.
Anime and its culture was being made available across a variety of different mediums, be it in its original form as paperback manga, adapted into television series for streaming or to be enjoyed on the big screen. As of May 2022, Cartoon Network launched Dragon Ball Super to be aired for the first time in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu in India.
However, the world of anime also found itself in an unlikely crossover event that has had the internet in a frenzy ever since…
Epic Games’ Fortnite, isn’t an unfamiliar name at this point. The infamous free-to-play, battle royale online multiplayer game has had a fairly colourful history to say the least. Regardless of the trolling and criticism, Fortnite is one of the most played video games of all time with over 400 million registered players as of 2021.
Production company Epic Games has found increasingly innovative (albeit controversial) ways to enhance the world of Fortnite which has included a variety of unlikely collaborations with celebrity personalities as well as existing franchises. As of August 2022, Fortnite has over 1,400 skins for players to choose from.
Some of those include,
And most recently, as part of its latest crossover with a popular franchise, Fortnite has been invaded by,
Dragon Ball has arrived on the Island!
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 16, 2022
Complete quests in Dragon Ball Adventure Island, use the Kamehameha ability, quickly move around the Island with the Nimbus Cloud (Kintoun) mobility item, and much more.
All info: https://t.co/zNWvrzK4I0 pic.twitter.com/CYW8laKjbZ
Now, players have access to whole bunch of Dragon Ball characters, accessories and power-ups including,
The internet is having a field day with the latest Fortnite additions,
Fortnite x Dragon Ball is *chefs kiss* pic.twitter.com/O21MX4DWg1
— Ryan B. (@PrestigeIsKey) August 16, 2022
Goku hitting the griddy in Fortnite. 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/nVtE6OcHnF
— Complex Pop Culture (@ComplexPop) August 17, 2022
Beerus Fortnite pic.twitter.com/0wIrvyZtZe
— Runa 🍜 (@RunaArts_) August 15, 2022
Only in Fortnite where you can play as Goku and team up with Naruto, Vader & Rick.. pic.twitter.com/HV7nyqjN8p
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) August 16, 2022
Fortnite has come a long way. #Fortnite #DragonBallSuper #Kamehameha pic.twitter.com/AVTQmWd7WT
— IGN (@IGN) August 17, 2022
These ambitious crossovers have made playing the game feel like a fever dream. And though Fortnite is increasingly reshaping cyberspace into something vaguely reminiscent of the Metaverse, as of now, Fortnite is most definitely in all senses, a real ‘multiverse of madness’.