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The Complete Main Dragon Ball Anime Timeline




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Lord Geo



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:22 am Reply with quote
Is this something that we might see done for other long-running series here on ANN? Dragon Ball is an understandable starting point, due to its popularity, but overall isn't all that super complicated from a timeline perspective, even once the modern movies, Super, & Daima came into existence.

Still, this would be neat to see with other works, too.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:42 am Reply with quote
Wow, this timeline was really needed for both Dragonball, and anime fans. Thank you ANN for doing this.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:58 am Reply with quote
I like the new feature on the site, but you might want to flip The Otherworld and Android/Cell Arc around.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:36 am Reply with quote
Lord Geo wrote:
Is this something that we might see done for other long-running series here on ANN? Dragon Ball is an understandable starting point, due to its popularity, but overall isn't all that super complicated from a timeline perspective, even once the modern movies, Super, & Daima came into existence.

Still, this would be neat to see with other works, too.


So far, we've also done Sword Art Online: http://4NN.cx/.217224
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Covnam



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:12 pm Reply with quote
Neat!

Lord Geo wrote:

Still, this would be neat to see with other works, too.


UC Gundam is the first thing that popped in to my head. Hard to think of too many others off the top of my head. Maybe Yamato or Index? Hmm... maybe One Piece or Naruto?
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MarshalBanana



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:28 pm Reply with quote
That was far more informative than I could have hoped for. I know there was a timeline, but I didn't know that every single; show, film, OVA and TV special fitted into it with very specific dates.
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BalmungHHQ



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:52 pm Reply with quote
Other World Tournament definitely needs to be pushed back. Due to the way this timeline is structured, its vague "May or June 767" designation causes it to display before the Android & Cell arcs, due to those having specific dates throughout May.
The Other World Tournament is very explicitly after those events (so if it is within May, its within its last few days), so somehow the table should be modified so it isn't displayed out of order. Anime smile + sweatdrop
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:20 pm Reply with quote
This is a fine timeline - but aside from fixing the Cell/Other World Tournament order, it may be a good idea to put History of Trunks before the Cell Saga.
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Richard Eisenbeis
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:49 pm Reply with quote
BalmungHHQ wrote:
Other World Tournament definitely needs to be pushed back. Due to the way this timeline is structured, its vague "May or June 767" designation causes it to display before the Android & Cell arcs, due to those having specific dates throughout May.
The Other World Tournament is very explicitly after those events (so if it is within May, its within its last few days), so somehow the table should be modified so it isn't displayed out of order. Anime smile + sweatdrop


Thanks for pointing this out. A lot of these timelines is hard coded. So as in I enter dates, it automatically puts those dates at the right place on the timeline. Apparently, it places general months (like "May") before specific dates within those months (like "May 27"). This caused the ordering error. It has been fixed and now I know what to look for when making future timelines. Thanks again!

BrazillianCara wrote:
This is a fine timeline - but aside from fixing the Cell/Other World Tournament order, it may be a good idea to put History of Trunks before the Cell Saga.


While I could have jury-rigged it so that The History of Trunks appeared before the Cell Saga (or even before the Trunks Saga), I decided it was more interesting to show when it actually happened on the timeline--so you could easily see where it falls compared to what's happening in the main series timeline.

Lord Geo wrote:
Is this something that we might see done for other long-running series here on ANN?


That's the plan. I have a massive list of possible series along with a few I've already started work on.
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