Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero released its first English-dubbed trailer, as well as confirmed its final U.S. premiere date of Aug. 19.
Distributor Crunchyroll confirmed today a firm release date for the highly-anticipated movie, which was previously listed with a summer premiere window. The anime company also released a new trailer for the film, which is available in both subbed and dubbed formats. As expected, most of the English dub cast from the Dragon Ball Super TV anime and the Broly movie will reprise their roles, including Christopher R. Sabat as both Piccolo and Vegeta, as well as Sean Schemmel as Goku. The new characters in the movie will be voiced by several notable new additions to the cast, including Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba's Zach Aguilar (Tanjiro Kamado) and Aleks Le (Zenitsu Agatsuma), who will play the role of Dr. Hedo, the Red Ribbon Army's new head scientist, and Gamma 1, the first of the army's new android warriors respectively. They will be joined by My Hero Academia's Zeno Robinson, who will play Gamma 2. Charles Martinet, a veteran voice actor who is best known for voicing Nintendo's mascot, Mario, will play the role of Magenta, one of the Red Ribbon Army's new leaders.
The full English cast list is as follows: Son Gohan - Kyle Hebert
- Son Goku - Sean Schemmel
- Son Goten - Robert McCollum
- Piccolo - Christopher R. Sabat
- Bulma - Monica Rial
- Vegeta - Christopher R. Sabat
- Krillin - Sonny Strait
- Trunks - Eric Vale
- Videl - Kara Edwards
- Pan - Jeannie Tirado
New English Voice Cast:
- Dr. Hedo - Zach Aguilar
- Gamma 1 - Aleks Le
- Gamma 2 - Zeno Robinson
- Magenta - Charles Martinet
- Carmine - Jason Marnocha
In addition to the U.S. release date, Crunchyroll also confirmed when the movie will be released in other regions. The full listing is as follows:
● August 18 in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina,
Colombia, Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay
● August 19 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa,
Zambia, Vietnam
● August 26 in India, Indonesia
● August 30 in Malaysia, Brunei
● August 31 in the Philippines
● September 1 in Singapore
● September 8 in Taiwan
● September 15 in South Korea
● September 29 in Thailand, Hong Kong, Macao
While the series' traditional leads, Goku and Vegeta, do appear in the movie, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero will instead focus on Gohan and Piccolo, and the bond the two have shared ever since the Namekian warrior first trained the young half-Saiyan to control his immense powers. The movie will see the two fighting a newly reborn Red Ribbon Army, who have kidnapped Gohan's daughter, Pan, and created two new android warriors, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2.
Super Hero opened in Japan on June 11, where it topped the weekend box-office rankings but failed to match the performance of its predecessor, Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Fans who want to see the theatrical release without having its twists spoiled are warned to be cautious on the internet, as numerous spoilers for the new Dragon Ball movie have been trended on social media ever since the film's Japanese debut.
All of the Dragon Ball anime series, including the original 1986 TV show and the 2017 adaptation of Dragon Ball Super, are now available for streaming on the Crunchyroll. Akira Toriyama's original manga is also available in English from publisher VIZ Media.
Source: Crunchyroll, YouTube