The Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour is returning in 2022
Bandai Namco have announced that in February of next year, over two days, Dragon Ball fans will be able to enjoy a host of news related to the series, from game updates, online battles, new game reveals, toy and merch reveals and more.
The two days will be at different times, to allow for viewers from all around the world to tune into the show live, but here are the times.
Day 1
Saturday Feb 19 AEDT - 11am
Saturday Feb 19 AEST - 10am
Saturday Feb 19 ACDT - 10:30am
Saturday Feb 19 ACST - 9:30am
Saturday Feb 19 AWST - 8am
Day 2
Sunday Feb 20 AEDT - 4am
Sunday Feb 20 AEST - 3am
Sunday Feb 20 ACDT - 3:30am
Sunday Feb 20 ACST - 2:30am
Sunday Feb 20 AWST - 1am
Rather than try to explain everything that is happening, here are the details right from Bandai Namco, for each segment.
For DRAGON BALL FighterZ, the "World Championship" will be held to determine the world's No. 1 player among the winners of the "Regional Finals," a tournament featuring the top ranked players from Europe, Japan, and North America.
For DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME, there will be a dream match-up between the winner of the “World Championship 2021” and the winner from last year’s DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour.
As for DRAGON BALL LEGENDS a special program will be delivered again.
And last but not least, a SUPER DRAGON BALL HEROES special event will pit six players from Japan against each other, separated into two teams for 3 vs. 3 battles.
There will also be additional activities in the event’s “Online Arena” for participants to enjoy. A multiple-choice quiz tournament based on DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE and DRAGON BALL LEGENDS hosted by their development teams. A “DBXV2 Super Fashion Show” will see the top 16 fashion leaders in DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 showcasing their work.
Other Dragon Ball mediums will be getting updates as well, for example:
There will be the latest information on DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO, the upcoming movie in which Akira Toriyama is fully participating.
DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS will also be part of the event with the game producer playing and elaborating on the recently announced title.
“Dokkan DATA 2022” will be a program looking back at the seven years since the launch of DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE and sharing some data about how players have been playing the game and its history.
While there will be lots of new info and content on DRAGON BALL games and other products, that’s not all. “How to” photos will be made showing viewers how to take the best shots of their favorite S.H.Figuarts “Action Figures”.
A master of Chinese cuisine will take the stage and recreate dishes form DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT in the special cooking program “KAKAROT COOKING”.
Two sculptors will create figures of Goku and Vegeta in real time during the “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hours MASTERPIECE FUSION”, and various characters from DRAGON BALL will be brought to life using various objects like balloons, Rubik’s Cube, and Japanese-style lunch boxes in the “DRAGON BALL ART CHALLENGE”.
There will also be merch that can be bought online, but there is no word on if it can be obtained and shipped to Australia yet, though if you buy one of the designs, your character can get an in-game version of it as well, for selected titles.
