Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods"

[penguintruth]

I'm hoping it's a horribly insignificant character.

Like Mr. Popo.

Or Gohan.

[Karasai]

Also Uisu being called a puzzling or mystery man.

Calling it now, Uisu is the main villain.

[Saiga]

And while Goku is off wasting time fighting the less important Birusu, Gohan is fighting the real villain and saving the day.

Oh, how I hope.

[Gokuden]

It's Future Trunks guys, you can't just make a character that epic and scrap him later.

[Karasai]

Future Trunks is too busy defending his timeline from the Mutant Crab People

[Herms]

OK, so from the bios on the promotional image:

Bilus
A god who governs destruction, maintaining the world's balance. Once his wraith is incurred, he'll destroy nearby planets and life, and is a being feared even by Kaio and Kaioshin.
[So there you have it. Bilus: officially as scary as Yakon.]

Whis
A mysterious man working in league with Bilus.

Pilaf, Shu, Mai
Small-time villains who plot to use the dragon balls to take over the world, but their plans are thwarted by Goku and co.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Pilaf, Shu, Mai
Small-time villains who plot to use the dragon balls to take over the world, but their plans are thwarted by Goku and co.

I suppose they mean that literally in this movie, huh? =P

[Chuquita]

Pilaf, Shu, Mai
Small-time villains who plot to use the dragon balls to take over the world, but their plans are thwarted by Goku and co.

I suppose they mean that literally in this movie, huh? =P

It really says small-time? That's fantastic.
I always enjoy it when the character-bio writer does stuff like that.

Thank you for the translations, Herms!

So going by that summary, it's possible Uisu might be the bigger threat? Or at least the one pulling strings? Or maybe they're holding back detail for Birusu's powers since there's not much room to type? Lots more questions.

I'm still hoping Jump Festa will at least have some kind of chunk of interesting new info.


Also, I just finished listening to the in-depth OPPodcast's Film Z review/walkthrough (which was amazing) will Kanzenshuu be doing a similar podcast-feature with BOG (with Julian as Greg?) Or would it be too spoilery of an episode? I for one enjoy spoilers.

[bleed0range]

Curious about the final spot.

It must be fairly significant if they're still keeping it under wraps, and I'm guessing it's something we haven't seen yet. I'm thinking something along the lines of the God of Creation.

I bet Whis (or however you spell his name) is the main villain too who has tricked Bilus somehwo and the hidden figure is Whis' transformation into the REAL villain.

[Chuquita]

Also leaning towards the theory of Uisu being the hidden main villain. Maybe he needs Birusu to destroy the North Galaxy so that Uisu can create something else in its place?

[NeoKING]

Bilus
A god who governs destruction, maintaining the world's balance. Once his wraith is incurred, he'll destroy nearby planets and life, and is a being feared even by Kaio and Kaioshin.
[So there you have it. Bilus: officially as scary as Yakon.]

Really, who doesn't have those pussies in the higher cosmos shook? I bet they were scared of even Freeza until they heard Goku put the beats on him; then they were able to play it off as, "Oh yeah, we could've beat Freeza whenever we felt like it, he was just a no-name though ... Phew, boy did we dodge a bullet."

[Avenged]

Can we get a high quality picture of that flyer WITHOUT Saiyan Island written all over it?

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Can we get a high quality picture of that flyer WITHOUT Saiyan Island written all over it?

Here you go.

There's a clean scan of the flyer on (I think Kei17's?) twitter: http://i.imgur.com/7Vpd9.jpg

Saiyan Island really bothers me for some reason. I swear half of their news updates are re-worded posts from Kanzenshuu.

Bilus
A god who governs destruction, maintaining the world's balance. Once his wraith is incurred, he'll destroy nearby planets and life, and is a being feared even by Kaio and Kaioshin.

*Breathes heavy sigh of relief

Also, I just finished listening to the in-depth OPPodcast's Film Z review/walkthrough (which was amazing) will Kanzenshuu be doing a similar podcast-feature with BOG (with Julian as Greg?) Or would it be too spoilery of an episode? I for one enjoy spoilers.

I think Mike mentioned that they would be doing something like this. I'm hoping for a live stream personally.

[Chuquita]

A live stream would be awesome. X3

Here's the other side of the flyer!
Looks like all the text on the other side is stuff that's been posted on the movie's official website already, from the manga's summary to Toriyama's note and the advertisement for those pen-point balls.
Still a nice little ad though.

[medama_oyaji]

Kind of a nitpicky thing, but I hope that the Jump Festa panel will reveal the sources of Birusu and Uisu's name puns. I need to know what the preferred spellings will be, dammit, rather than continuing with the straight romanizations!

Yeah, the name thing is kinda driving me crazy. That's something I'd really like to know!

Also, I just finished listening to the in-depth OPPodcast's Film Z review/walkthrough (which was amazing) will Kanzenshuu be doing a similar podcast-feature with BOG (with Julian as Greg?) Or would it be too spoilery of an episode? I for one enjoy spoilers.

I surprised myself by actually skipping the spoiler section of Greg's review. Thought I didn't really care about spoilers, but once I got to it I suddenly felt like, "No! I want some surprise whenever I finally get to see the movie!!" and skipped over it. Guess I'm so excited about the movie that I don't want to feel like I'm just going through the motions when I finally see it. I'll just redownload the podcast later to hear Greg's thoughts after I see the film. I know that by the time OP Film Z hits my eyes I'll probably have picked up more plot details here an there, but I don't want a full walk-through of the movie...

If Kanzenshuu does a similar thing, I guess I'll just do the same. Save the episode for a later date, whenever I'm fortunate enough to see the movie! Boy, waiting's gonna be tough!

[Michsi]

Thanks a lot for the bigger version of the poster. I see now that Piccolo isn'r smirking like I was led to believe from the LQ versions of the poster.

[NeoKING]

I do like how Bilus is shitting on Goku's life. Even at SSJ3, a form so strong that it can only properly be used in cosmic dimensions, Bilus could son Goku like he's Yamcha.

[SSj_Rambo]

Of the last 18 dragonball features to have theatrical showings each one had a movie pamphlet distributed at the showings. I wonder if this simple pamphlet is the same one they'll give out upon release, or if they will come out with a more in depth one. I believe the pamphlet for the JSAT special was a similar folded single-page, but there's a lot more info to pack into this one, hopefully it's substantially larger.

[Titan]

OK, so from the bios on the promotional image:

Bilus
A god who governs destruction, maintaining the world's balance. Once his wraith is incurred, he'll destroy nearby planets and life, and is a being feared even by Kaio and Kaioshin.
[So there you have it. Bilus: officially as scary as Yakon.]

Whis
A mysterious man working in league with Bilus.

Pilaf, Shu, Mai
Small-time villains who plot to use the dragon balls to take over the world, but their plans are thwarted by Goku and co.

Anything new about the other characters?

It's both. Goku outright states that he'll be training Uub to be his successor in protecting the Earth in the manga, but his friends know he just wants another high caliber fight and Goku himself even says that he's been waiting years for this and asks Uub to fight him once his training is complete.

Of course, probably, he didn't read your response.

[Cold Skin]

Maybe he needs Birusu to destroy the North Galaxy so that Uisu can create something else in its place?

That's what I think too.
In the trailer, there is Whis asking Birus "could you destroy the Earth, please?" or something like that, in a manner that seems to mean "that would be handy if you did that for me so that I can do what I have to do".
And there's that shot of Birus saying "Before creation comes destruction" if I'm not mistaken, implying that need to destroy the Earth - or the Galaxy according to Picoclo - to create something new instead.