The one-armed Super Saiyan ambushes Android 17, and despite his handicap, puts up a long and suspenseful fight against the androids.
Trunks pleads to fight, but Gohan knocks him unconscious to stop him from joining the battle. The training is stopped short when the androids attack the nearby city Pepper Town. Trunks brings Gohan back to Capsule Corporation where he recovers and resumes training Trunks. Gohan then gives Trunks a Senzu bean, saving him from death yet again. Gohan and Trunks survive the blast but at the cost of Gohan's left arm, which is blown off. The androids, unable to find them, bomb the park in hopes of drawing them out of hiding.
He manages to fight her for a minute before he is easily defeated, but Gohan saves him from death, and they both hide in the debris of the park. Trunks, though no match for the Androids, comes to Gohan's aid and fights with Android 18. However, Android 18 joins the fight and the two begin to overtake Gohan. Gohan transforms into a Super Saiyan and, despite a few lucky hits by the android, quickly takes control of the fight. Gohan and Trunks arrive there for battle, and Android 17 takes on Gohan while Android 18 watches. One day, the Androids attack an amusement park, Super World. Gohan trains Trunks in fighting, who comes very close to becoming a Super Saiyan as well. Gohan is the only one able to stand against the Androids, ever since he became a Super Saiyan after witnessing the deaths of the other Z Fighters. The special then moves thirteen years into the future, in Age 780, where we meet a fourteen year old Trunks and twenty-three year old Gohan. Unfortunately, the Z Fighters are unable to be wished back to life because the Dragon Balls are permanently unusable due to Piccolo's death, which also kills Kami. The film opens with Future Goku's tragic death from a radical Heart Virus and the death of the Z Fighters at the hands of Android 17 and Android 18 around six months later on May 12, Age 767.
The movie also aired on Toonami on two other occasions: Janu and. The movie premiered on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on September 12, 2003, as part of DBZ Movies. The special changes several key plot points for drama (such as the fact that in the manga, Trunks was capable of transforming into a Super Saiyan before Future Gohan's death). It is unique among Dragon Ball movies/specials since it is actually based on a brief chapter in the Dragon Ball manga, called "Trunks The History - The Lone Warrior". The History of Trunks tells the story of Future Trunks and his life during the time when the androids have the world under siege. Roughly a year later, FUNimation released a remastered single version on September 15, 2009. The special was re-released in a remastered box set bundled with Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku in May 2008. FUNimation Entertainment dubbed it into English and it was released for the first time in English on October 25, 2000. Originally released in Japan on February 24, 1993, between episodes 175 and 176. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you but not perfect! Scientist's agonize over the attempt to achieve perfection! That's the kind of creatures we are! We take joy in trying to exceed our grasp, in trying to reach for something that in the end, we have to admit may in fact be unreachable!" MY HOLY GRAIL (110% Serious.7:00 PM Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks is an hour-long TV-Special that is part of the Dragon Ball Z series. The truth of the matter is I despise perfection! If something is truly perfect, that's IT! The bottom line becomes there is no room for imagination! No space for intelligence or ability or improvement! Do you understand? To men of science like us, perfection is a dead end, a condition of hopelessness. But ultimately I have to ask myself "What is the true meaning of being perfect?" and the answer I came up with was nothing. That's precisely why ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection, it's infatuation. It may be a cliche after all but it's the way things are. Mayuri Kurotsuchi wrote:"In this world, nothing perfect exists.