April 19th Will Decide “Future of Dragon Ball”

Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour is a worldwide event dedicated to everything Dragon Ball. Celebrating the festival's sixth year and anime's 40th anniversary, Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2026 will be held from April 19 to April 20, in Los Angeles, California. While the event focused primarily on the video game side, it's not uncommon for anime and manga news to be announced during Battle Hour, and this year's event promises some big updates on Dragon Ballfuture as anime.

Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 will offer more information about the long-awaited Dragon Ball Project AGE 1000as well as cover the official card game, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Dragon Ball Z Doll Battle, Dragon Ball Legends, Dragon Ball Gekishin Squadra, and Dragon Ball: Kicking! Zero. But more importantly, Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2026 will finally offer new information about what's to come Dragon Ball Super: Beerus anime. If we're lucky, we might even get confirmation that Toyotarou is Dragon Ball Super manga is officially coming back from hiatus.

Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2026 will finally offer more information about Project Age 1000

Dragon Ball Project AGE 1000 will be heavily involved in the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 event. According to the official Dragon Ball website, “The latest information on AGE 1000a new game project, will be announced during the Battle Hour Times event on stage!” Very little is known about AGE 1000 right now. Fans have speculated that the game could either be a reboot of Dragon ball onlineor be in secret Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is one of the main events of Battle Hour 2026, so it is possible that Bandai Namco intends to continue supporting the game along with AGE 1000. If so, AGE 1000 be a reboot or remake of Dragon ball online seems much more likely than another Xenoverse continuation. AGE 1000 features a new main character designed by Akira Toriyama, and is described as “A brand new Dragon Ball game” with “all-new main characters”.

The title alone suggests that the game will take place in Age 1000, an important year in Dragon ball onlines timeline, set 216 years after the end of Dragon Ball Z. AGE 1000 may well be Akira Toriyama's way of bringing Dragon Ball into the future and unite forgotten knowledge from Dragon ball onlinewithout destroying the rest of Toyotarou's Dragon Ball Super manga.

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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will be featured in Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2026

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus was announced alongside Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol at Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri last January. While Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is still in active production, Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premieres this fall on Fuji TV. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus has been in the promotions for Dragon Ball Games' Battle Hour 2026, so it's possible that fans could finally get a release date for the anime remake.

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There will be a panel specifically on Dragon Ball Super: Beerusas Dragon Ball's official website says, “will reveal the latest information about the anime.” Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is a full-scale remake of the Battle of Gods arc from the original Dragon Ball Super anime, cutting out the story filler and punching up the animation with redrawn scenes and much stronger art direction. Hopefully Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2026 will reveal Dragon Ball Super: Beerus' release date, as well as the final episode, before confirming more remakes of the future Dragon Ball Super story arcs.

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