Hisashi Sasaki, former editor-in-chief of Weekly Shōnen Jump and current deputy director of the Shōnen Manga Group, posted a tweet yesterday confirming that Akira Toriyama was in Tokyo to attend the first screening of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.
Toriyama-sensei was at our editorial room. He is in Tokyo for the first screening of the new theatrical movie DRAGONBALL.
Earlier this morning, Yūsuke Watanabe — the movie’s script writer — took to Twitter himself to post a tweet of his own discussing the experience:
昨日『ドラゴンボールＺ』のゼロ号試写。鳥山先生にも御挨拶。まだ初号（完全版）ではないけど、脚本からさらに数段レベルアップしてて、なんか涙が出そうに…いや、実際でた。感慨深かった。俺ドラゴンボールと共に育ったんだなあと。悟空とベジータはやっぱり悟空とベジータだ！という。
Yesterday was the No. 0 preview of “Dragon Ball Z”. I greeted Toriyama-sensei, too. Though it’s still not the completed version, it’s leveled up several times from the script stage, it almost made me cry… Actually, I really did cry. It was deeply moving. I was raised with Dragon Ball. Goku and Vegeta really are Goku and Vegeta!
Watanabe confirms that the movie is not completely finished yet, and that some aspects are still being finalized. This most likely indicates that there some animation and/or musical tweaks left to do, but that the majority of the movie is relatively complete.
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I just KNEW the final cut of the movie would’ve been unfinished! (atleast at this stage) XD
Watanabe’s tweet mentions my two favorite DB characters AND that the film was deeply moving and cry-worthy.
*Really really wants to see this movie now*.
Based on the wording, I think Watanabe cried simply due to seeing the (nearly) completed movie; i.e. it was a response to seeing the movie he worked on completed, rather than as a response to any particularly emotional scene.
Ah. It is likely that. (Who wouldn’t be thrilled to see their hard-worked-on-script on screen in movie form?)
I’m still excited anyways.
Sounds great, Akira being there could offer some input improving the overall product.
I rather hear from Toriyama about the movie. Maybe that will be saved for a later Chozenshuu interview or something. I’m hopeful anyway.
I hope a picture emerges of him attending (probably not). I’m curious as to what he looks like in 2013.
I doubt we will see his face at all, maybe at a Chozenshuu (maybe). Seeing the face of a mangaka is like seeing the face of God. 😛
I really hope the movie is exciting and has some awesome fight scenes.