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

[Vegard Aune]

I'd say why not! Plus, wasn't the end of this movie open ended or something? Seems like they've already planned one.

The movie does indeed have quite a few things at the end that hint at there being more adventures to come. Whether this was actually sequel-baiting or just Toriyama being Toriyama (he did intentionally end the manga in an extremely non-conclusive way as well, after all) is not certain, but yeah, the possibility of extending upon the concepts introduced in Battle of Gods to create a DBZ Movie 15 is most certainly present.

[VegettoEX]

Yeah, I'm with ya' on that. The ending to the movie seems no more or less open/close-ended than any other point at all in the entire series as a story arc comes to a close. Everything's always, "Well that's done, but boy, the world/universe sure is filled with strong guys!"

[KentalSSJ6]

It can pretty much go anywhere from here considering the bombshell Bills drops with the statement of 12 universes and various gods in each one. If we do get a BOG sequel, id like it to happen after the Tournament with Uub. He could be just starting his training with Goku when Bills reawakens and Vegeta could have obtained SSJ3 (seriously Toei, give it to him already..). He doesent need SSJG right away.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Yeah, I'm with ya' on that. The ending to the movie seems no more or less open/close-ended than any other point at all in the entire series as a story arc comes to a close. Everything's always, "Well that's done, but boy, the world/universe sure is filled with strong guys!"

The difference is, it didn't really end like the other arcs:

The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai ended with Goku as the strongest on Earth, without any knowledge about other guys in outer space or AfterLife.
Freeza arc ended with Super Saiyan Goku as the strongest in the universe, again without any knowledge about other stronger guys.
Cell arc ended with Super Saiyan 2 Gohan as the new strongest in the universe, AGAIN without any knowledge about stronger guys.
Boo arc ended with Ultimate Gohan, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, and Super Saiyan 3 Goku on the top of both the universe and AfterLife (and with the temporary Super Vegetto being stronger than all 3 of them combined), with only Oob having potential to reach the top as well, but not any further knowledge about any other stronger guy.

However, BoG ended differently: We learn about two new stronger guys (Beers & Whis) who are stronger than anything so far, and we see Goku getting a new power-up (Super Saiyan God) to defeat them, only to find out that he is still weaker than them. Not only that, but we also learn that there are 11 other universes which possibly have guys that are even stronger than Beers & Whis.

And then, we have these hints:

Introduction: “New” Dragon World
A sort of “mission statement” about the new section, about how the Dragon World is ever-expanding, and there have been new stories yet untold, featuring powerful enemies descending to Earth, and battles for the fate of planets in far-off space. The new world of Dragon Ball will continue to unfold…

Spoiler:

[nicrimo]

"new stories yet untold featuring powerful enemies..... battles..."

I believe that there is not plural in japanese. How to know if the sentence is in plural? maybe "new story yet untold featuring powerful enemy..and battle..."

But i hope there will be more stories in the future and not one more story... with 12 gods of destruction, there is a potential.

[Chuquita]

Can't tell at this point of this is an official page for the animanga/film comic for BOG (do those normally even get their own official facebook pages?) but it still looks interesting: https://www.facebook.com/DBZanimecomics

[Avenged]

The new trailer is cool has a few new scenes.

[Vegard Aune]

The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai ended with Goku as the strongest on Earth, without any knowledge about other guys in outer space or AfterLife.
Freeza arc ended with Super Saiyan Goku as the strongest in the universe, again without any knowledge about other stronger guys.
Cell arc ended with Super Saiyan 2 Gohan as the new strongest in the universe, AGAIN without any knowledge about stronger guys.
Boo arc ended with Ultimate Gohan, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, and Super Saiyan 3 Goku on the top of both the universe and AfterLife (and with the temporary Super Vegetto being stronger than all 3 of them combined), with only Oob having potential to reach the top as well, but not any further knowledge about any other stronger guy.

What you have to consider though is, it's not like Goku VS Piccolo Junior was the first story-arc. Heck, every arc before that had ended in a way that actually did show that there were still plenty of bigger fish in the pond, and it wasn't before Goku won the tournament that the series started ending each conflict with "Goku is now the strongest person alive!"

That said, I do almost feel that Battle of Gods takes this "always someone better"-idea a bit too far. I mean,

Spoiler:

having Goku losing the final fight with Beers and instead only having the earth saved because he's gained his respect by putting up a better fight than anyone else Beers has ever faced (except Whis), as well as revealing that there are parallell worlds where there might be even more amazing people is one thing... But having this happen after he gains a new powerup, and Beers clearly stating that Whis is way stronger than him but we never get to see him actually do anything besides knocking Beers unconscious at the very end, and revealing that Beers wasn't even going all-out... It's sort of cutting it dangerously close to feeling less like "Leaving the door open for potential new adventures", and more like "A prologue to another story that we might never actually see."

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

The new trailer is cool has a few new scenes.

Would be helpful if you linked the actual trailer instead of tricking people into visiting your website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9jZh6FZbk
A lot of new stuff has been sneaking under the radar lately. This "new" trailer was from 5 days ago; what's the matter with you internet? Although I guess the clips aren't really new, considering the movie's already been out.

[Chuquita]

Has this one appeared anywhere yet? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJW0zITqIzo
It's the Korean VA for Goku recording lines in a booth, but for a good portion of the clip you can see what scenes he's doing--some of which I haven't seen anywhere else before.

[SSJ6Goku]

ohhh, nice trailer! i like the way they say dragon ball z in korean!

[Noctis]

The new trailer is cool has a few new scenes.

Would be helpful if you linked the actual trailer instead of tricking people into visiting your website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9jZh6FZbk

He always does that That's quite boring and unfair.

Well, I was wondering: wasn't BoG supposed to come in China since 15th august? We still haven't seen any promo about that.

[Avenged]

The new trailer is cool has a few new scenes.

Would be helpful if you linked the actual trailer instead of tricking people into visiting your website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9jZh6FZbk

He always does that That's quite boring and unfair.

Well, I was wondering: wasn't BoG supposed to come in China since 15th august? We still haven't seen any promo about that.

Huh no? The trailer was posted a few pages back, so was that Korean dubbing Chu mentioned. And if anyone is being tricked to visit a website around here it's to visit Saiyan Island.

[SaiyaJedi]

Well, I was wondering: wasn't BoG supposed to come in China since 15th august? We still haven't seen any promo about that.

Hong Kong != China. Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5mEFyraV4

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Looking back at all the trailers we've had for this film, anyone else think they're a tad misleading?

[kei17]

Looking back at all the trailers we've had for this film, anyone else think they're a tad misleading?

Yeah, I'd think that the movie is serious and fully action-packed like the old ones if I didn't know much about it and just saw the trailers.

[Chuquita]

Looking back at all the trailers we've had for this film, anyone else think they're a tad misleading?

Yeah, I'd think that the movie is serious and fully action-packed like the old ones if I didn't know much about it and just saw the trailers.

I agree. Those alarm clocks (the time bombs) are especially misleading. I was under the impression for the longest while that what we were looking at in that shot was Earth's reality being warped by Beerus' special powers and that Capsule Corp sat on one of those floating rocks.

I also expected Uisu to be some kind of double agent or manipulator using Beerus to destroy Earth so Uisu could have it to do as he pleased.

[Gonstead]

Am I the only one who feels Jōji Yanami was quite flat sounding when we hear him? It's as if he didn't put any real energy into the line in the trailer.

[kei17]

Am I the only one who feels Jōji Yanami was quite flat sounding when we hear him? It's as if he didn't put any real energy into the line in the trailer.

He's 81 years old, so it can't be helped I guess.

[KentalSSJ6]

Geez Kei, you change avatars faster than anyone I have ever seen on any forum.

Anyway, I'm curious to hear who will be dubbing Bills and Whiss in Battle of Z, as we may finally get a idea of who will dub them when Funimation finally does their dub.

For Bills I could see Steve Blum doing it (would be a cool cameo of sorts as Bills's Japanese voice did Spike in Cowboy Bebop). Hes got that similarly deep voice as Bill's Japanese voice and can sound cool and calm and also angry and vicious.

For Whiss, my money is on either Vic Mignogna or Todd Haberkorn. Both of them have a soft voice that could translate to Whiss's demeanor and soft spoken personality pretty well.