Dragon Ball Z Movie 2

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The World’s Strongest Guy
Japanese English
この世で一番強いヤツ Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu
Premiere Date	10 March 1990
Premiere Event	1990 Toei Anime Festival (Spring)
EIRIN Code	113175
Running Time	60 minutes
Film Premiere Data
Total Gross	Unknown
Net Earnings	¥1 billion (approx. US $6.5 million)
Attendance	2.7 million
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Takao Koyama
Art	Yūji Ikeda
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Daisuke Nishio
Production	Toei Animation
FUNimation Dub
Title	The World's Strongest
Premiere Date	27 May, 1998 (Original Dub) 14 November, 2006 (Remastered Dub)

"The World’s Strongest Guy" is the second theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z. The movie premiered as part of the 1990 Spring "Toei Anime Festival" on 15 March 1990, along with two other movies from the "Akuma-kun", "Sally the Witch" series. It was written by series organizer Takao Koyama and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Summary

While looking at the Dragon Radar, Oolong notices that all of the Dragon Balls are starting to be gathered together. He and Gohan, who were also searching for the Dragon Balls, head out to investigate and end up at the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains’ eternal wall of ice, where coincidentally, Piccolo is also training. Dr. Kochin summons Shenlong and wishes for Dr. Uiro’s lab to be released from the ice. The ice begins to break away and a building emerges. Gohan and Oolong look on in disbelief, when they are suddenly attacked by Dr. Kochin’s Biomen. Piccolo shows up to save Gohan, but is overcome by three mysterious fighters, while Gohan and Oolong escape.

Dr. Kochin and his Biomen soon appear at Kame House, and request that Kame-Sen’nin come with them. He refuses and easily defeats the Biomen, but Dr. Kochin kidnaps Bulma to force Kame-Sen’nin to go back with him to the lab. There, Kame-Sen’nin is forced to fight three bio-warriors, but it soon becomes apparent he’s no match. Bulma discovers that Dr. Uiro’s goal is to obtain the body of the strongest man so he can be revived. Bulma informs them that Son Goku is now the strongest man in the world.

Oolong informs Goku of the situation, and he heads out to find Bulma and Kame-Sen’nin. He arrives at Dr. Uiro’s lab and is greeted by Misokattsun, Kishime, and Ebifurya, Dr. Kochin’s three bio-warriors. Goku defeats Misokattsun by bursting through him with the Kaiō-Ken, but is then sealed up in ice by Ebifurya. Gohan and Kuririn arrive to back him up, but are at their wit’s end against Kishime. Using the Kaiō-Ken, Goku breaks free from ice and defeats the two remaining bio-warriors. Goku confronts Dr. Uiro, demanding he give Bulma back, but Dr. Uiro just wants Goku’s body.

Piccolo, who has been brainwashed by Dr. Uiro, appears and a battle between the two rivals commences. Gohan tries to stop Piccolo, but he simply swats Gohan away. Being unable to stop them from fighting, Gohan’s anger explodes, shattering Dr. Uiro’s brainwashing device on Piccolo. Dr. Uiro is stunned by Gohan’s power and decides he must fight Goku himself. He begins to break his robot body free from the wall, subsequently knocking Dr. Kochin down an energy shaft, killing him. Everyone watches on in horror, including Kuririn, who has freed Bulma.

The true battle begins, and Dr. Uiro seems to have the upper hand. Even the three-person Kamehameha of Goku, Kame-Sen’nin, and Kuririn has no effect on him. Soon, Goku and Piccolo are the only ones left able to fight. Goku resorts to using a Kaiō-Ken powered Kamehameha, which merely knocks Dr. Uiro into space. Goku begins to form a Genki-Dama, but Dr. Uiro interupts him before he can throw it by shooting ki blasts at him. The others fly up to distract him so Goku can successfully throw the Genki-Dama. Goku lets it fly and it’s a direct hit. Dr. Uiro’s brain is destroyed and peace once again returns to Earth.

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese film. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan		Stephanie Nadolny
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher Sabat
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Kame-Sen’nin	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Shenlong	Tesshō Genda	Christopher Sabat
Dr. Kochi	Kōji Yata	Troy Baker
Kishime	Yukimasa Kishino	Chris Rager
Ebifurya	Ken Yamaguchi	Matthew Tompkins
[[Misokattsun	Daisuke Gōri	Robert McCollum
Dr. Uiro	Kōji Nakata	R. Bruce Elliott
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Kyle Hebert

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this theatrical film as credited in its respective ending credits.

• Scenario: Takao Koyama
• Director (Storyboard): Daisuke Nishio
• Animation Supervisor: Minoru Maeda
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda

• Key Animation: Yukio Ebisawa, Masahiro Shimanuki, Kazuya Hisada, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Teruhisa Ryū, Tomoya Iida, Naotoshi Shida, Tai’ichirō Ohara, Hisashi Eguchi, Masaki Satō, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Takeo Ide, Hideko Okimoto, Naoki Miyahara, Tetsuya Saeki, Akio Katada, Yōko Iizuka, Masako Misumi, Noriko Shibata
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Assistant Director: Tatsuya Orime
• Production Progression: Yūichi Suenaga

Setting

• Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains
• Mount Pao-zu
• Dr. Uiro's Lab

Variations

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Edits/Censoring

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Notes

• Daizenshuu 6 classifies this movie as an event that takes place between the end of Goku’s battle with Vegeta and his arrival on Planet Namek, with a few caveats:

"From Goku’s dōgi having a “Kame” mark on the breast and a “Kaiō” mark on the back, it seems this is an event from between the battle with Vegeta and Goku’s arrival on Planet Namek. However, there are also inconsistencies such as Gohan being on Earth when he should be in the middle of fighting on Planet Namek."

— “Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 6: Movies & TV Specials” (p. 44)

• Although this movie was presented in a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio in theaters, it was actually animated in a 4:3 fullscreen format. In fact, when the movie was initially released in 1990 on VHS and LaserDisc, it was presented in this 4:3 fullscreen format. However, the “Dragon Box The Movies” release would later drop this format, instead presenting all of the movies in their original widescreen theatrical format. Overall, this movie has been released to the home market on VHS, LaserDisc, 8mm film reel, and DVD.

• The movie was eventually adapted and released by Shueisha as a film animation comic in June 1994, and subsequently re-released under Shueisha’s “Jump Remix” line in April 2005.

Production

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Availability

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External Links

• Kanzenshuu Movie Guide - Movie 2