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

[DBZAOTA482]

With all the talk about where Dragon Ball Z should have ended I've been thinking. I don't know how good the movie's gonna be, but I have high hopes... and maybe the ending of the movie is the true ending of the series. The point where it should've ended :p Maybe somehow the movie is going to tie everything together and give us the most satisfactory ending ever :p

I dunno, just a thought :p

The original ending with Goku going to train Oob is a great ending. I really don't see why people want DB ending to be the ending of the adventures.

It's a cute ending but I found the overall message very shallow and the fact that Goku just up n' leaves his friends/family does not reflect that well on his character.

If the series is going to end at the Majin Boo Saga it should have ended immediately after Goku and co. defeat Pure Boo with Goku and Vegeta giving each other thumps up.

[worldmonsters]

I like the ending too. At first I hated it with a passion but that was before I realized the symbolism of it all. It's a passing of the torch. Goku won't be around forever and there needs to be someone to defend Earth. It also acts as an epilogue saying there are more adventures to come. The ending is very Dragon Ball. This movie will likely symbolize the end of Goku's adventures, through obtaining a power that cannot be surpassed meaning there are no more limits for Goku to break, but not the series'.

I think the series ended just fine, but the Kanzenban ending is even better (apart from Vegeta's comment at the end :p). And yeah, if this movie ends with Goku realizing that he's as strong as he'll ever be... that only makes the original ending with Uub even stronger. Hell, if he found out that there is no way he could get stronger (I mean, God is pretty much... you can't go above that in essence) than the only thing important left in his life is finding someone who can become the next savior of the world. Actually it makes the Uub ending kinda strong if you think about it. He leaves his friends and family because he knows that its the right time. Not only is there nothing left for him strength wise, but he has to pass everything on to the next hero, and it's just not Gohan or Goten and Trunks. It has to be someone new. All this is discounting GT though :p

What I said might be what people thought of the ending all this time, but I thought of it just now. Especially if Goku mentions himself reaching his absolute max at the end of the movie.

[ultimateemail5000]

So I saw this video of this guy talking about the movie filling every viewer with lies and bad info. Everyone turning SSJ3 even Broly being in it. I made a message saying to everyone just stick with Kanzenshuu.com for the real info. I just love this site and feel bad for fans who believe fake info.

[fogdark]

Well, let's bring the discussion back to Battle of Gods.
Here we have the official Music Video for FLOW's CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA --click here--

And I have the official music video for the other insert song, HERO ~Kibou no Uta~ so I suppose it'll appear on YouTube sometime soon...

EDIT - OK, so I decided to upload the insert song music video, so here you go! -Click here-

[TheMightyOzaru]

I wanna here the entire soundtrack dammit! From the names of all the songs it seems like they will all sound epic .

[penguintruth]

the fact that Goku just up n' leaves his friends/family does not reflect that well on his character.

It's Goku. He's always doing that. He lives almost entirely on his own whims.

The fact that he sees this as normal and doesn't mean any harm by it is what makes him charming instead of a disturbing sociopath.

(But then again, some of my favorite fictional characters ARE disturbing, yet charming socipaths.)

[Chuquita]

I'm still trying to figure out what I think Goku's ssjg form will look like. I've got four different theories atm without any of them really standing out above the others. @_@
'It has a blue aura' is not much to go on, but that's all I've got from the trailer. ^^;
Atm I've got:
Theory 1: It's like a blue kaio-ken. It can be used on top of any of Goku's ssj forms as well as on top of his base form.
Theory 2: A continuation of the regular ol' ssj levels; kinda like the fanart that's been floating around, only without the ssj4 fur.
Theory 3: SSJ3 with Birusu-type clothes.
Theory 4: Ostentatiously (glamorous?) ultimate transformation that goes as far out there as it can with everything; hair, clothes, eyes.

I have no clue though; just have to wait and see.

[Kaboom]

If Toriyama happens to be the one who designed it, I'm sure it'll be something crazy that none of us will have been expecting.

[Insertclevername]

I'll put my money on the first theory with the blue aura, but instead of any SSJ form, it's just the first one.

[Naughty Kinto Un]

If Saiya-jins literally have a god form, I hope there's an explanation as to what makes Saiya-jins so special. I can understand transformations like the various Super Saiya-jin levels, even reaching the level of power that SSG might have, because they're a warrior species. But if they can turn into actual gods just because... that's lazy writing even for Dragon Ball.

[Cold Skin]

If Saiya-jins literally have a god form, I hope there's an explanation as to what makes Saiya-jins so special. I can understand transformations like the various Super Saiya-jin levels, even reaching the level of power that SSG might have, because they're a warrior species. But if they can turn into actual gods just because... that's lazy writing even for Dragon Ball.

That's why I think this God form is not natural to all Saiyans, it's given to Goku by the very specific circumstances here and he could not have achieved it by natural means (which doesn't mean he won't keep it afterwards).
It would seem illogical that one of the species in the lower universe would naturally be able to reach the power of Gods just through training and hard battles (and Goku had quite his share of those).

The fact that the Dragon Balls are used shortly before the Super Saiyan God transformation seems to go that way too. They could have something to do with it.

[MCDaveG]

I just dreamed about the look of SSJG Goku. It was Goku in the normal state, but instead of blonde hair, he had the Dr. Slumpish pink shit on his head.
This movie will definitely rock

[Ringworm128]

I kind of think the term "Super Saiyan God" sounds a bit silly. It sounds like something a 13 year old would come up with for his AF fan fic.

[CaBrPi]

I kind of think the term "Super Saiyan God" sounds a bit silly. It sounds like something a 13 year old would come up with for his AF fan fic.

Well, who knows. It's Akira Toriyama. It'll probably end up being something totally outrageous that none of us could've imagined.

[TheMightyOzaru]

I kind of think the term "Super Saiyan God" sounds a bit silly. It sounds like something a 13 year old would come up with for his AF fan fic.

It's probably just the beta name in a sense. SSJ2 was called SSJ Grade 5 way back in the day.

[Saiga]

I kind of think the term "Super Saiyan God" sounds a bit silly. It sounds like something a 13 year old would come up with for his AF fan fic.

Well, who knows. It's Akira Toriyama. It'll probably end up being something totally outrageous that none of us could've imagined.

Then again, it wasn't Akira Toriyama that came up with the name.

[SilverPlaqueVII]

While on the subject on this topic, I recently saw a picture from Dragon Ball Z Experts' Instagram trying to petition Funimation to dub Battle of Gods. It's unclear it will happen sooner but it'll be a worse case scenario, the license ends 2015.

http://instagr.am/p/WFI0XMEFI_/

EDIT: I read one of the comments that they might use the original Z dub cast as opposed to the Kai cast.

I kind of think the term "Super Saiyan God" sounds a bit silly. It sounds like something a 13 year old would come up with for his AF fan fic.

I wish. SSJG should've been called in the first place Super Saiyan 3.5 or SSJ3.5

[Kaboom]

FUNimation is the last entity that needs convincing that FUNimation should get to eventually dub and distribute the film. But it's not 100% up to them.

[AnimeMaakuo]

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[El Diabeetus]

Why would it being the "Z" dub cast matter at that point? The only characters that I can think of being any different (at that point in the story and we don't know the Buu saga changes, if any are yet) are 18, Bulma and the Narrator. I hope (and think) it'd be the Kai cast though, plus I wanna like the narration, haha. But, as others have said I'd wait 'til after it comes out in Japan to start talking about dubs. I found the tidbit on the front page about Birus destroying most of Kaio's planet over a video game hilarious. That screams a Toriyama idea, so even though he hasn't really done much with the series since the original run. I think he knows what he's doing, even with Super Saiyan God.