I Reacted to a Fan Made Alternate Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Story, and Here's My Verdict

A fan animator named Blue Animations sent over a full alternate universe take on Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, and I watched through it to give my honest thoughts. My overall verdict: it was not perfect, but it was a lot of fun and genuinely inventive.

A note at the start explained that the project began around ten months before it was finished, back when very little was known about the actual movie, so the story should not be taken too seriously as a prediction of the real film.

The Voice Work and Art Style in This Dragon Ball Super Fan Project Impressed Me

One of the first things I noticed was the vocal performances. I said, "that's a pretty good Sean Schemmel impression," adding that it is not the easiest voice to emulate and that while it was not a hundred percent perfect, it was not bad at all. The overall craftsmanship also clearly improved from what I remembered seeing in the trailer months earlier, prompting me to say, "I can't believe how much you've all improved especially you Broly."

I also liked that the animation leaned into a classic Dragon Ball Z style rather than trying to copy the movie's look, and I pointed out that a lot of fan animators in the fandom tend to bring new forms and ideas back to that older art style, which I said I personally prefer along with a lot of other fans.

Adult Gotenks, a Shocking Pan Moment, and Cell's Return Stood Out to Me

The fan version gave adult Gotenks a proper completed fusion, something I noted a lot of Dragon Ball fans wanted after the movie's failed fusion attempt, and I called Blue's take on the character "phenomenal art." A later moment appeared to show Pan being killed, which caught me off guard given long standing fan discussion about that being a potential trigger point for the story, and I reacted with, "did he just kill Pan bro... did they go through with it."

The story also brought Cell back, created in this version by Dr. Gero's grandson, Dr. Hedo, using Gohan's new divine energy, which set up an emotional confrontation with Gohan after Cell was shown killing Pan. I said the sequence "went far and away beyond what we were all expecting," noting that the real movie was written a few years before things like UE and Black Frieza existed, which shaped what the actual film could do by comparison.

My closing take was that the animation was not flawless, with a couple of choppy scenes I was not a big fan of, but overall it was creative, fun, and gave fans another universe where a story like this could have happened. What did you think of this alternate take?