Warning: Comprises spoilers for Dragon Ball Tremendous chapter #104.In a shock twist, Dragon Ball Tremendous has made an old-school Dragon Ball Z hero formally canon. Whereas most anime will choose to simply depart their filler content material as filler, Dragon Ball will often discover methods to work them into canon; traditional examples of this embody Bardock and Ginyu being despatched to Earth, and most just lately, it’s occurred once more with Tremendous Saiyan 4 in Dragon Ball Daima.

Dragon Ball’s filler content material will all the time be made canon when somebody least expects it, and that’s occurring once more within the Dragon Ball Tremendous manga. The manga has quickly come off of hiatus for a particular chapter explaining how Goten and Trunks grew to become superheroes, and in a shock twist, Dragon Ball Tremendous chapter #104 made Olibu from Dragon Ball Z an official a part of Dragon Ball canon. It in all probability doesn’t imply a lot within the grand scheme of issues, besides, it’s good that Dragon Ball would make a personality like that canon so a few years after his debut.

Who Is Dragon Ball Z’s Olibu & How Did He Grow to be Canon?

The Newest Filler Character To Grow to be Canon In Dragon Ball

In between the Android saga and the Majin Buu saga, Dragon Ball Z had a filler arc known as the Different World saga, which centered across the just lately deceased Goku getting into a match between the disciples of the Kais. Amongst these disciples was Olibu, King Kai’s strongest disciple after Goku, and in line with his historical past, Olibu was a hero on Earth when he was alive and impressed lots of its myths whereas he was alive. Olibu finally misplaced to Pikkon within the semifinals, however he was nonetheless a enjoyable addition to the anime, regardless.

For many years, Olibu appeared to simply be one other filler character, however that’s modified due to the Dragon Ball Tremendous manga. In chapter #104, Trunks’ class went on a subject journey to a museum devoted to Earth’s heroes, with there being statues devoted to Mister Devil, Nice Saiyaman, Grasp Mutaito, and an nameless Goku, and surprisingly, Dragon Ball Tremendous chapter #104 confirmed a statue of Olibu, thus canonizing him as one among Earth’s oldest heroes in Dragon Ball. Olibu, himself, doesn’t seem as a spirit, however for anybody who watched Dragon Ball Z, it was a pleasant little second to have.

Is Dragon Ball Z’s Different World Saga Formally Canon?

Did A Basic Filler Arc Simply Grow to be Canon?

Dragon Ball Tremendous’s massive reveal invitations the concept of the Different World saga turning into canon, but it surely’s not that simple. Whereas it might be simple sufficient for the characters to grow to be canon, the depiction of Hell within the Different World saga immediately contradicts Dragon Ball Tremendous, as every planet now has a singular model of Hell versus everybody going to the identical place. The contradictory depictions of Hell in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Tremendous make it not possible for the Different World saga to be canon, and that’s unlikely to vary anytime quickly.

That doesn’t imply the Different World saga is with out advantage. Even when it could possibly’t grow to be canon, the Different World saga continues to be one among Dragon Ball Z’s higher filler arcs for its nice fights and its enjoyable new characters, so on the finish of the day, the truth that Dragon Ball Tremendous determined to make Olibu canon nonetheless reveals that there was one thing in regards to the Different World saga value acknowledging. It’s an incredible little bit of fanservice for anybody who grew up on Dragon Ball Z, and hopefully, it received’t be the final time Dragon Ball Tremendous does one thing like that.