included · Mechanical

Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks

Yoshihiro Ueda · 48 minutes

It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future

Science Fiction, Action, Animation

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

A brief temporal moment, cameo or sequel setup.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Trunks' departure in Bulma's machine is an ending setup after the largely chronological android tragedy.

The television special ends with Trunks using Bulma’s machine to take medicine twenty years into the past.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan16.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance1/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.7/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 78.47 base × 20.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Hiromi Tsuru, Ryo Horikawa, Takeshi Kusao

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

8 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Blu-ray