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Dragon Ball Super: Broly is a 2018 Japanese animated martial arts fantasy adventure film. It is a canonical reimagining of the film Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993). It is the twentieth animated feature film in the Dragon Ball franchise, the first to carry the Dragon Ball Super branding, and is the third film in the franchise to be personally supervised by series creator Akira Toriyama. Set after the events of the "Universe Survival Saga", the plot follows Goku and Vegeta as they encounter a powerful Saiyan named Broly. The film chronicles the history of the Saiyans and the background story of these three Saiyans with different destinies connected to the turbulent period of their race. Broly represents the first appearance of a reworked iteration of Broly in the main Dragon Ball continuity, following the initial version's appearances in the films Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, Broly – Second Coming (1994), and Bio-Broly (1994).