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Finally finished this poster parody sketch I did forever ago!
#dbz#trunks#trunks briefs#sdbh#chronoa#about to feed the our tags dont have posts in them characters#towa#demigra#mechikabura#robel#aeos#poutine#sealas#dragon ball
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once more, their head had caved in
and the past lingered nearby a locked door
once more, they had revisited
something over and over and over again
and carried on
more art! bottom most image was done for a secret santa event
#dragon ball#future gohan#mechikabura#beast gohan#cell max#gohan#kamioren#cumber#frieza#bardock#dragon ball oc
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A line of random shitposts/incorrect quotes i made a month or two ago
#fu#mira#towa#chronoa#supreme kai of time#xeno trunks#demigra#mechikabura#shitpost#incorrect quotes#dbz#was kinda nutty with these#sdbh#super dragon ball heroes#dragon ball#dragonball
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#Dragon Ball#Dr. Lychee#Hatchiyack#Mira#Towa#Fu#Hearts#Majin Ozotto#Cumber#Mechikabura#Dark King Mechikabura#Demigra#Demon God Demigra#Dark King Demigra#Sealas#Eos#Android 21#Zahha#villains#tumblr polls#poll
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Some sketchs of my au of dragon ball
Alphatale belongs to shad15
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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 44-46
It... kind of isn’t, really.
All right, so this is the second round of the Super Space-Time tournament. The figthers are all off in different battlegrounds, each fighting one of Aeos’ four warriors to win a fairy which they’ll bring to Aeos to claim victory. I think that’s how this works. I’m not sure if the first one to bring Aeos a fairy is the winner, or if it’s whoever brings the most. I guess it doesn’t matter much. Anyway, Goku’s on what looks like Earth, facing his father, Bardock. Goku doesn’t know Bardock, but Bardock knows him. Like Future Gohan, his powers were amplified by the Dark Dragon Balls when he entered into Aeos’ service. I guess this is the same guy who kept getting involved during the New Space-Time War arc. He didn’t have the Bardock headband like he does now, but unless Aeos has a fifth henchman, I don’t see who else it could be.
Meanwhile, Bardock’s comrade, Vidro, is fighting contestants on a different battleground. She can create clones of herself and fight multiple opponents at once. What I don’t understand is what happened to all of the other fighters. She’s taking on Yamcha, Hit, and Vegeta at the same time, but there were guys from two other teams involved here. Those two teams don’t seem to have anyone at the place where Goku and Bardock are fighting.
Anyway, Hit manages to get the drop on what I assume to be the ‘real’ Vidro, but then someone stops him before he can finish her off.
It’s Yamcha, and he tells Hit that he can’t just let Hit kill her, even if she is an enemy. I mean, yeah, there was no rule that said he had to murder Aeos’ warriors. He just needed to take the fairy from her, so I don’t get what Hit is doing. Hit seems insistent, though, so he concludes that he’ll have to kill Yamcha first.
This display from Yamcha has deeply touched Vidro, though, so she jumps to Yamcha’s defense.
Even her clone is confused.
Meanwhile, Bardock and Goku father-son beam struggle blah blah blah get back to Yamcha I want to see if he marries this lady!
Seriously, though, Bardock loses, but he doesn’t mind because if a fellow “low-class” Saiyan can improve this much on his own, then there’s hope for Bardock to do the same.
Meanwhile, Chronoa confronts Aeos while disguised as one of the competitors. The Time Patrollers had their own team in this tournament, and Chronoa infiltrated the tourney that way, probably so she could get close to Aeos on her own, since that’s the objective of the second round. She wants the Scroll of Eternity back, but nothing’s changed. Aeos tells her to take it by force if she thinks she can.
Then they power up to their super forms. Aeos goes first, expecting a fight, but Chronoa says she’ll only use this form to talk.
But Aeos sees this as pointless, as her mind is made up. Okay, the problem I have with this show is that they never explain anything past a superficial level. Aeos is the former Supreme Kai of Time, and now she’s come back because she believes Chronoa, her successor, has failed in her duties and allowed too many timelines to exist. Okay, fine, but why did Aeos step down from the office in the first place? Where has she been all this time, and why did she choose to come back now? And what gives her the right to just waltz back into her old job and take over? Does Chronoa have no authority in this? If she doesn’t, then what good is her title?
They struggle for a bit, and Chronoa concedes that all the timelines are a problem, but recent events have shown her that there are great possibilities in some of these timelines, and they’ve helped her overcome all the threats that have shown up in this web-anime. Wait, have they? Goku and Vegeta have handled the bulk of the work, and while there are two sets of them running around, that means you really only need two timelines, tops. Maybe a third, depending on how Trunks’ whole deal is.
I mean, from the layout of this tournament, Hearts and Cumber are from a separate timeline, since they were on a different team. And they may have helped out in the previous arc, but they were also villains. Seems to me that all these alternate timelines are usually the cause of the problems in this show, not the solution.
Anyway, Aeos overpowers Chronoa and gets ready to time-freeze her, when Goku shows up to turn in his fairy and claim victory.
He also wants to ask Aeos to not erase all the timelines where the losing teams came from. Well, we’ve been over this, but Aeos refuses to budge. So now Goku has to do something about this.
So now we’re doing Goku vs. Aeos, and he uses his Ultra Instinct speed to stay one step ahead of her time altering powers. She can’t time-freeze him if she can’t hit him with it.
But Aeos is pretty sharp, and she sets Goku up in a Hellzone Grenade situation. But Goku knows a counter to that, a move that’s near and dear to my heart...
Instant Transmission Kamehameha! Ha ha ha! Get Goku’ed, idiot!
This doesn’t defeat Aeos, but it does disrupt her time field over this area, which... I don’t know what that means. She then decides that the alternate timelines are much graver threat than she realized, if they can produced fighters like Goku.
Meanwhile, back at the site of the Universe Tree, we find Mechikabura’s... ghost? Essence? I assume this is a manifestation of the “Dark Factor” that he released when Trunks killed him in Episode 20. Towa collected this energy and bequeathed it to Fu, who then lost to Goku. We still don’t know what became of Fu, but apparently the power he got from the Dark Factor is still lingering here, cursing Mechikabura’s enemies.
Then Demigra shows up and attacks this Mechikabura ghost and claims the power for himself. Okay...
Then Demigra attacks this tournament grounds Aeos has set up.
Once Aeos sees Demigra, she realizes that he was the “premonition of evil from space-time”. So I think the idea here is that she was worried that something bad would come from the alternate timelines, and she did all this to erase the alternate timelines and eliminate the problem, but now she sees that Demigra was the true threat all along? All right...
She also calls him “Majin Demigra”. I’ve noticed this a number of times in this series. For some reason, a number of characters have referred to Demigra and his underlings as Majins, like it’s a synonym for “demon”, or a specific type of demon. I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but it’s definitely not a translation issue. I can hear the voice actors saying “Majin” plain as day, so I think the subtitles are just going along with it.
So Demigra grabs the humidor where Aeos has been storing the Scroll of Eternity, and declares himself the new Dark King and the ruler of space-time. So this is basically just like the story mode in Xenoverse 1, where he broke out of the Crack of Time, took over the Time Nest and absorbed Tokitoki. In the back of my mind, I’ve been trying to figure out if any of this material in SDBH can be worked into the Xenoverse continuity, but it’s really just telling the same story with different characters. It’s still the Time Patrollers, main timeline Goku, Towa and Demigra. The only difference is that all of these side characters keep showing up in the present, instead of the bad guys manipulating them in the past.
The first thing Demigra does is summon a goofy version of Omega Shenron from the Scroll of Eternity, sort of like how Goku Black did it before, only this one is much sillier. He looks like he fused with Demigra’s final form from the video games.
Then Xeno Gogeta shows up, because he really wasn’t that far away, and he’s a Time Patroller with a hobby of clobbering Omega Shenron. I’m not sure why he’s pink, though.
They basically go through all the spots from the original Gogeta 4 vs. Omega Shenron fight in GT. Well, not the bit with the streamers. It’s supposed to be a callback to GT, but ironically this fight is actually way, way better than GT. Better animation, better colors, and Gogeta’s fusion doesn’t dissolve.
Omega Shenron can’t even touch the guy, so Gogeta 4 polishes him off with a Big Bang Kamehameha like he should have done 26 years ago.
Aeos finally grants that she has to work with Goku and Gogeta to beat Demigra, so it looks like everyone’s on the same page now.
Meanwhile, Demigra’s right-hand woman, Robelu, is here to observe the battle, and she’s brought a plus-one to this event. Who could her mysterious ally possibly be? It’s Broly. Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s fucking Broly again.
#dragon ball#super dragon ball heroes#2023dbapocryphaliveblog#goku#bardock#gogeta#supreme kai of time#aeos#demigra#mechikabura#robelu#omega shenron#broly#hit#vidro#yamcha
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But I like to think that Zahha is a descendant of Mechikabura or that there at least is some connection. IDK Zahha just reminds me of Mechikabura & I have no real explanation to this.
Though, it is confirmed that Zahha is a demon realmer.
I think I would be 100% wrong, it's just wishful thinking. But it would be cool.
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Dragon Ball Mechikabura RP Icons
Free to use. Likes or reblogs are cool. Icons are from Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm. I believe there are 30 of them.
#dragonball#dbz#dbs#dragon ball heroes#dragonball heroes#dragon ball super#dragon ball#manga icons#rp icons#icons#mechikabura
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So, Majin Buu....
Thinking back on the original Akira Toriyama Dragon Ball run, it's pretty clear to me more than ever that Majin Buu, the final major villain of the series, the Big Bad in the story arc the series ended on, was by far the weakest Big Bad out of all the powerful, action-based Big Bads, making him second weakest overall next to Commander Red. Yes, even Tienshinhan was an overall more satisfactory main antagonist compared to how Buu got by the end. And for the longest time I just sort of took that as a basic truth without really examining why it was. I'd thought the main reason for it was that the concept of him as this ages old evil that was only just now being pulled back into the present day limelight to be the new all-powerful threat to the universe to surpass the last all-powerful threat to the universe was really cheap, as it felt like Toriyama lazily re-doing the premise of King Piccolo only more ancient and a threat to even the gods of this world's cosmology and lore. But if I'm being totally fair and honest, that shouldn't necessarily be a definitive restraint on Buu from reaching villainous greatness. After all, Buu is also a great concept for a villain and an undeniably original, distinguished, uniquely Toriyama one at that. He so easily could've worked. Why didn't he?
This year of Toriyama's passing, it finally dawned on me - Majin Buu suffered from the same syndrome that would years later plague Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts. The syndrome of being a single character yet having so many different variations of him that feel like completely separate characters that makes it hard to reconcile them all as a single entity or to understand who that single entity is at the most fundamental level and what they're all about personally and in terms of narrative function. And indeed, it is only Buu who suffered this problem. Piccolo Jr. felt like the spawn/second lifeline of King Piccolo, Vegeta as a Great Ape still felt like Vegeta, Freeza in all of his transformations still feels like Freeza, Cell is still Cell in all three of his forms (even with his brainpower being more easily expended in the Semi-Perfect form), the Zamasus all feel like different variants of Zamasu, Moro, Mechikabura, and Demigra always feel the same, etc. Yet Majin Buu feels like he becomes four or five different people over the course of his saga, which gets either unnecessarily lengthy or incredibly rushed depending on the medium you're looking at it in!
So here's basically how I feel about the Majin Buus:
Fat Buu, AKA Mr. Buu - Toriyama first created this character to be the Majin Buu, a complete subversion of expectations for how this all-powerful evil demon was built up versus how nonthreatening he appears to be once we meet him. The simple-minded, infantile, playful, whimsical and sweets-craving nature of this Buu is both the source of much comedy and becomes a source of tension that enhances the dread you feel whenever the deep malice he harbors within him comes out on display, as the tonal whiplash of this silly, chubby pink blob getting mad and doing horrible things is unnerving. But in addition, we're made to feel some sympathy for Buu since Babidi treats him in an abusive, exploitative way and it becomes clearer that for all the malice he has and all the wrongs he commits, Buu has the mind of a small child who does whatever he wants to do for fun in total innocence and naivete, not knowing or understanding what the morally right things to do and the right way to live are, and why things like killing other living creatures is morally wrong. The stuff with him and Mr. Satan is some of the best content in the entire saga, and it feels right that he joins the family and becomes one of the good guys in the end, even if not much really comes of that in future installments. I give him an 8/10, to me he's the Best Buu.
Evil Buu, AKA Slim Buu - I mentioned the deep malice within Buu that he was born with, and this guy is the physical personification of it that Fat Buu conjures out from him during a breakdown where his desires are clashing with what he now knows about right and wrong. Visually, he's the exact 180 of Fat Buu - lean face and skeleton-thin body, open eyes that are black with white pupils, dark blue cape rather than a purple one, and he's the only Buu who's not pink but is instead gray. But he's the Mr. Hyde to Fat Buu's Dr. Jekyll, another side of the same person. Were Fat Buu to defeat him, he'd conquer his inner darkness, but instead this thing defeats and swallows Fat Buu, signifying that the inner darkness has won out and will change Buu's shape into something stronger and more evil. Ultimately this Buu has no personality to speak of besides "evil" and is only there as a plot device to up the tension and stakes again by becoming the new eviler version of Majin Buu who has no qualms disregarding the lessons he'd learned from Mr. Satan. However, he does get some extra points for killing Van Zant. 4/10, Basic Buu is Basic.
Super Buu - I really like this Buu yet am really mad at him and have a bone to pick with him. 'Cause he feels so easily like the Buu I'd love the best after Fat Buu, owing a lot to a truly stellar introductory period, solid voicework in the anime, and much like Cell, some cool and catchy theme music from Bruce Faulconer in the US dub. He starts off so cool: popping his neck, yawning, sagging, screaming, and cackling maniacally in the course of seconds after he's formed, showing devastating power and killing Smitty in the most graphic and disturbing way, flying all the way to Kami's Lookout just to fight and kill his enemy, distinguishing himself from the well-spoken likes of Freeza and Perfect Cell by speaking very simply, responding to Piccolo's demand of him by simply and efficiently killing off the Earth's human population, nonchalantly turning a furious Chi Chi into an egg and not even bothering to eat her (he kills her by stepping on the egg), and retaining all of his hilariously childish dumbass qualities and sweet tooth yet possesing a raw, dangerously savvy cunning beneath his brutish exterior. And yet through all this, he it doesn't really feel like he's properly motivated in evildoing other than "he's evil", and more problems start to pile up once he and Gotenks are going at it in the Time Chamber dimention. For every golden moment he gets, he gets some ill-concieved moments (though in fairness, he shares them with Gotenks and Piccolo): it's he who instigates the "wall-breaking/plot-breaking scream". But not even that could ruin him. No, when he really does the unforgivable is when he turns into the next Buu. So he's a 7/10, should've been Buuetter but wasn't.
Mystic Fusion Super Buu - Is just Fusion Super Buu when he absorbs SS3 Gotenks and Piccolo, the "Mystic" is added when he absorbs Gohan. Yeah, the problem is immediately apparent in that premise. Since when could Majin Buu absorb anyone and add their Ki power to himself? That was Cell's shtick, Majin Buu was all about transforming his prey into sweet treats and eating them up. He got the ability to take other fighters and their powers into himself from right out of Toriyama's ass! On top of that, he now looks hideous, with a long head antenna like SS3 Gotenks' long hair, a nose and facial features like Piccolo, and he trades out between Piccolo's, Gotenks', and Gohans' clothes, and neither look good on him! On top of that, his characterization changes as with Piccolo's intellect, he starts speaking in complete sentences and elloquently articulating everything which is just....no. Don't. This is killing Buu's unique vibe! On top of that, him defeating and absorbing Gohan is an utterly cruel slap in the face of any fan who might've actually wanted to see Gohan's ordeals and new power paid off by him being the hero to defeat Buu in the end like such a set-up would normally entail. And on top of all that, he's just a bore now. The whole section of the story where he's around has always failed to interest or excite me, he's just not fun to look at, watch, or listen to, and his existence is what derails Gohan's arc, brings Goku and Vegeta as co-heroes in the spotlight, and stretches things on the barren Earth out longer than necessary, including a gross, unwelcome trip inside of Buu's body! Near the end he loses his shirt and shows his character again, and we get the welcome return of classic Super Buu for one last stand-off, but that only bumps his score to 2/10. Buuuuuuuu, you suck!
Kid Buu - Buu's final and also primal form. He's not only the most powerful, destructive, and maniacal Buu, but this is Majin Buu as originally concieved in-universe. When Bibidi first conjured him into this realm, he was like this - a living, breathing force of pure chaos who lives only for the slaughter and devastation that he finds fun. And he does work as being just that, retaining Buu's mixture of being comical yet also terrifying and dangerous. Almost everything that concerns him and the section in which he's the opponent/obstacle to destroy is perfectly fine, aside from Goku being the hero rather than Gohan and how drained you feel from all the earlier Super Buu antics, it all works and makes for a properly tense, thrilling and epic final battle against a worthy final boss for this saga. The issue with Kid Buu can found within his character set-up and in the way he gets implemented into the saga. We'd been given nothing foreshadowing his existence as the OG Majin Buu until after Super Buu has reverted to him. We had no reason to think that Fat Buu wasn't the default for Buu, nor any reason to think that this new Buu would be that much more powerful than the Buus that preceded him, making Kid Buu feel really, really cheap. For that matter, how does removing Fat Buu from inside of Buu revert him to Kid Buu yet Fat Buu expunging the Evil Buu from out of him didn't have that effect on either Buu? And as is said in this post, "Kid Buu’s defeat doesn’t feel as satisfying as it should because we barely spent time with him compared to Super Buu", and that when Kid Buu comes along to take Super Buu's place, in the manga it's in the last graphic novel volume of the series, the very same that began with Vegito VS Mystic Fusion Super Buu, while in the anime it's the point when "you’re about ready to scream “Oh my Kami, END already!” given how fatigued you are of watching Super Saiyans fighting this pink monstrosity by then. Ultimately, Kid Buu's a 7/10 - Buu Bye and guud riddance, Janemba did it better.
Uub - The reincarnation of Kid Buu, who before getting killed had been Mystic Fusion Super Buu, and Super Buu was previously Evil Buu before eating Fat Buu, who Evil Buu came from making Evil Buu and Fat Buu two different variants of the same being, so that guy gets reincarnated due to a wish to Shenron by Goku even though Mr. Buu is still alive as a separate being....yeah, the dissociative identity of Majin Buu and the flimsy idea of all forms of Buu being the same character really collapses here, and fittingly on a character whose very existence and the reasons for it, in-universe and out of it, are completely nonsensical. If Goku really wanted to keep Majin Buu as a sparring partner but only if he was a better person, why not start training Mr. Buu so that his power could grow to match Kid Buu's? And are we really expected to believe and be okay with the idea that the successor to Son Goku ends up being not Gohan, not Goten, not even Pan, but the hastily introduced in the final two chapters reincarnation of the last villain who we were also only just introduced to in that very volume of manga? I can't pretend to know exactly what Toriyama was going for when he wrote the epilogue in those last two chapters and came up with Uub, but if that was his way of leaving the door open for Toei Animation to continue the franchise on their own terms, it's pretty telling that GT had no interest in picking up on this thread and rendered Uub completely worthless, and we've seen no more from Uub in the DB continuations we've had since. Uub and the ending associated with him were just a total Uuber failure. 1/10.
#Dragon Ball#Dragon Ball Z#manga#anime#Majin Buu#analysis#opinion#criticism#Mr. Buu#Evil Buu#Super Buu#Kid Buu#Uub#they wasted a perfectly good character#Akira Toriyama#anti majin buu
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Oh how the might have fallen the supreme kai of time turn into a lazy slob. Mechikabura must be laughing from his grave to know his old rival turn out like this.
"Yeah but who's the one who got his butt kicked and who gets to sit on a comfy sofa and eat snacks? Doesn't seem like a fair comparison really... besides I'll get back in shape when I recover my power, Yawn~ After a quick nap...." Chronoa said waving off the comments as she fell asleep with a hand still inside a tub of lard. She was under the impression her extra weight gain was ALL caused by half of her powers being stollen. Though she may find out that isn't the case... and all these extra calories will be here to stay.
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girls who need to stop sealing all of their problems away in the crack of time
#dbz#chronoa#tokitoki#demigra#mechikabura#sealas#artstuff#im OBSESSED with chronoa sadposting lately#supreme kai of time
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personal dragon ball head cannons. Dabura and Towa are actually related to Mechikabura. He didn't actually did it with anyone he used dark magic to spawn them. Mostly so the demon realm has some sort of leadership if something happens to him. He has no care or love for them. Tho Towa did take up a few things from him.
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Three Dark Kings....three attempts at this style lmao.
#demigra can be showier as a treat#dbz#dragonball#dragon ball#fanart#pinup#monochrome#demigra#mechikabura#fu#dark king demigra#dark king mechikabura#dark king fu#fuu#sdbh#super dragon ball heroes
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i love fu so much. what i also love about fu is that theres fucking two of them
i think if xv2 fu met heroes fu then there'd be hella chaos, not just bc of who they are individually but also bc i think theyd honestly like. clash. heroes fu is like. significantly more fucked up than xv2 fu. xv2 fu wants nothing to do with the demon realm and is focused on messing with time to generate energy for whatever the fuck. heroes fu literally used mechikabura's power to become some crazy ass demon god and then sephiroth for some reason (i havent seen it in a while). their goals and morals seem Quite Different to me
i think heroes fu would be like an asshole twin brother to xv2 fu and xv2 fu would constantly pull pranks on him to get back at him or something. but they wouldnt always be elaborate pranks using his magic--no. sometimes theyd be as simple as putting a bucket of water on top of a door and waiting for him to get soaked. which is actually way funnier if he gets tricked by simple pranks like that. can you imagine if he went to steal xv2 fu's cookies just to spite him but when he opened the jar a bunch of fake snakes jumped out and scared the shit out of him
i do prefer xv2 fu over heroes fu but i love them both in their own ways. and i think they should meet and hate each other
BECAUSE LIKE ok xv2 fu does not have his parents anymore. heroes fu definitely has them and still WORKS with them. he's still heavily influenced by them. xv2 fu didnt even want to resurrect his mom and fulfill her wishes, he wanted nothing to do with it. it feels like heroes fu doesnt have the same parental issues as xv2 fu does and thats so interesting to me
am i overanalyzing a little? maybe! but its fun
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I have heard rumors of a Demon named Mechikabura who was a being who you fought long ago, do you know of him?
Mh... yes, I do. I don't know where you heard the name, but tread lightfuly with it, okay? It's not one to be spoken of liberally.
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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 20
Meanwhile, in a completely different story...
This episode is a “special” that focuses on the Time Patrol. It sets up some plot points in the next arc, and it also provides some context for Fu, although I’d say it raises more questions than answers.
The problem is that this episode just jumps into the climax of a completely different story, one that took place some time ago, relative to the first 19 episodes. The first time I saw it, there was a little infodump scene before the episode title, to fill you in on the Supreme Kai of Time and her conflict with Mechikabura and Demigra. I can’t seem to find it now, so I’ll just explain what I know.
So about 75 million years ago, there was a contest to appoint a Supreme Kai of Time. The job mainly involves caring for the Divine Tokitoki Bird, a cosmic animal who creates time. The two candidates were Mechikabura, one of the oldest and most powerful of the Core People, and Chronoa, who I’m pretty sure got chosen because she’s good with animals. Anyway, Mechikabura tried to cheat, and Chronoa got the job. One of her first acts as Supreme Kai of Time was to banish Mechikabura to a hidden realm of the universe, which eventually became known as the Demon Realm. Later, Demigra, a wizard who worked as Chronoa’s assistant, turned out to be a dirty dealer as well, and she banished him to a different realm, the Crack of Time.
In the Demon Realm, Mechikabura founded the Dark Empire. I don’t know where his subjects came from. Maybe there were others in there with him, or they got banished there later for other crimes. Anyway, everyone there became known as Demons, and after a long reign, Mechikabura died or got sealed away or something. Dabura eventually became King of the Demon Realm, but then he got enslaved by Babidi, and killed by Majin Buu on Earth.
So Dabura’s sister, a scientist named Towa, came up with a plan to resurrect Mechikabura. This involved a lot of time travel shenanigans, brainwashing various characters, and using a set of corrupted Dragon Balls. Her machinations eventually got the attention of the Supreme Kai of Time, but she accused Trunks of causing the problems, since she had become aware of his time trips to defeat the androids on Earth. When it became clear that Trunks was not responsible, she recruited him for the Time Patrol, and they investigated the Demon Realm plot together.
Now, this basic synopsis is taken from a few sources, including the Dragon Ball Heroes games, the Dragon Ball Heroes manga, and the opening exposition from this episode of the web anime. It’s also kind of mentioned in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 1, although Mechikabura isn’t brought up, since I’m pretty sure he wasn’t introduced yet. But Towa is in XV1 and she’s depicted as an old enemy of the Time Patrol. There’s a number of twists and turns, like Demigra showing up and joining forces with the Time Patrol, or the Supreme Kai of Time getting mind-controlled into being a bad guy. But episode 20 of the SDBH anime is only concerned with the very end of the story, where the good guys have their final battle against Mechikabura at the height of his powers.
In this version, like the manga, Chronoa and Trunks are joined by alternate versions of Gohan, Goten, Pan, Goku and Vegeta. We’ve already met Xeno Goku and Xeno Vegeta. They were the Time Patroller guys who showed up in the Prison Planet arc and wrecked Fu’s lab. As for Xeno Goten, he’s here to provide Xeno Trunks with a fusion partner. Xeno Gohan and Xeno Pan? I have no idea. I’m pretty sure they were just brought in so there’d be enough Saiyans handy to do the Super Saiyan God ritual with Trunks.
Mostly, the action is handled by Xeno Goku and Vegeta, who fuse together to become Xeno Vegito. So where did these guys come from? The only explanation I’ve been able to work out is that in the Heroes video games, these battles would feature the player avatars, characters like Beat, Note, and so on. But in the manga, those characters weren’t available, so they had a scene where Chronoa drew allies from Trunks’ memories, or something. I don’t understand that, because the implication is that she created these guys out of thin air, with nothing to go on but Trunks’ memory. But he has no memory of Goten or Pan, or Super Saiyan 4, so it doesn’t make sense.
Anyway, the basic idea here is that Vegito keeps Mechikabura busy, while Chronoa charges up Trunk’s Time Sword, which he then uses to strik the final blow.
Mechikabura does the whole thing where he thinks the sword didn’t even hurt him, then he’s like “OH SHIT THIS ACTUALLY HURTS A LOT! ESPECIALLY MY GENITALS, WHICH WERE ALSO CUT IN HALF! OW MY GOBLIN DICK!”
Then Chronoa’s like “Sleep forever within the light” and he explodes or gets sucked into the prison dimension or whatever. I just like how badass Chronoa’s delivery is here. “Get wrecked, Mechikabura. Time Patrol, motherfuckaaa.”
Then she tells her bird to destroy the whole palace. “Every last brick, Tokitoki. I want them all to know it was me.”
Normally Tokitoki looks like a goofy barn owl with a beard, but here he transforms into a giant golden firebird or something.
“When you get to hell, tell ‘em Tokitoki sent ya!”
“ARRRRGH THIS HURTS A LOT! NOT AS MUCH AS MY DEMON PENIS GETTING SLICED DOWN THE MIDDLE, THOUGH! BUT BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ME SO OWWWWW!”
Then the good guys return to Earth or wherever, and everyone gives Trunks and attaboy for being so reliable. But he gives Goku and Vegeta the credit, since they did most of the work. I’m pretty sure the original premise was for Trunks to carry the load in this battle, hence the Super Saiyan God form, but here we are.
Anyway, that’s how Mechikabura and his Dark Empire fell. But wait...
Just before Tokitoki wrecked the whole place, Towa and Mira managed to evacuate their baby. Okay, I probably should have explained Mira. He’s an artificial life form Towa created to serve as her enforcer. He’s got Saiyan DNA and some other traits copied from powerful warriors, but she also married him, so it’s fair to say that Mira doubles as a sex toy.
This scene makes it look like they tossed their baby into a dimensional portal, then died with the rest of the city, but Towa and Mira would return to cause trouble in other media, including the Xenoverse games, other DBH missions, and the MMO Dragon Ball Online, where she was first introduced.
As for the baby, we don’t actually see what happened to him as he grew up. Instead, we flash forward to see him as an adult...
And he’s Fu, the mad scientist we’ve seen throughout the series so far. He looks a lot more edgelord-y here, but he seems to have lightened up by the time this web anime got started.
My gripe here is that none of this really tells us much about Fu as a character. I mean, he’s descended from Towa and Mira, but anyone watching this web anime without playing any of the games would have no idea who Towa and Mira are. Well, they’re demons, okay, but what does that mean to Fu? Does Fu even know where he came from?
I mean, I know Towa and Mira fairly well. I’ve written fanfiction about them, for crying out loud. But I’ve yet to understand Fu’s whole deal, and this episode seems designed to help me understand him better, and it really doesn’t succeed. Knowing who his parents are doesn’t get me very far. I guess he inherited his scientific genius from his mom, and his high power level came from his dad, and that’s about it.
Now, this episode does reintroduce the Time Patrol, and it introduces Tokitoki and Xeno Trunks to the story, and we’ll be seeing more of them in the next arc, so it’s not a complete waste of time, but I’m still not clear on what this was meant to accomplish.
“OWWWWWWWWW, EVEN IN DEATH MY BISECTED DEVIL HOG STILL SMARTS LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS! CAN THERE BE NO RELIEF! OOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!”
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