Dragon Ball Z Movie 9
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| The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy | |||
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| Premiere Date | 10 July 1993 | ||
| Premiere Event | 1993 Toei Anime Fair (Summer) | ||
| Running Time | 51 minutes | ||
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| Total Gross | ¥2.23 billion[1] | ||
| Main Staff Credits | |||
| Scenario | Takao Koyama | ||
| Animation | Tadayoshi Yamamuro | ||
| Director | Yoshihiro Ueda | ||
| Executive Producer |
Chiaki Imada Yoshio Anzai | ||
| Production | Toei Animation | ||
| FUNimation Dub | |||
| Title | Bojack Unbound | ||
| Premiere Date | 17 August 2004 | ||
"The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy" is the ninth theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z. The movie premiered as part of the 1993 Summer "Toei Anime Fair" on 10 July 1993. It was written by series composer Takao Koyama and directed by Yoshihiro Ueda.
Synopsis
The Money Family is hosting a martial arts tournament, but everything goes terribly wrong when Bojack and his minions show up in the final stages. The Z Warriors are handily defeated, leaving Son Gohan to face off against Bojack all alone. Can Gohan’s newly obtained Super Saiyan 2 transformation save the day?
Summary
Prologue
At an airport, a staircase descends from an advanced-looking aircraft.[note 1] Four strange-looking warriors come out while a female ZTV reporter reveals that they are aliens, the strongest warriors from the four galaxies. They have arrived to participate in the Grand Tenka'ichi Budōkai.
In a tropical city some distance away, the news report is broadcast on a large screen at a press event. Other ZTV reporters ask Gosan Money about the Grand Tournament. Gosan Money and his wife reveal that the tournament is a present to their son, Doll, on his tenth birthday. Doll seems to be a fan of Mister Satan; while his parents speak, Doll plays with action figures of Mister Satan and a dinosaur. He also sports a Mister Satan pin on his hat. The ZTV Producer elaborates that Gosan Money is the richest man in the world and that he will be sponsoring the largest martial arts tournament ever staged. All martial artists are invited to attend and the prize will be 100 million zeni, while runners up will win tours of the hot springs of the world. On the Serpent Road, Bubbles, Gergory, and Kaiō have set up camp. Bubbles adjusts a small satellite disk so that they can get better reception on a tiny portable television set. Gosan Money further announces that the winner will be given the chance to challenge the savior of the world, Mister Satan himself!
A group of reporters watch a door for Mister Satan to emerge, but he instead is seen high above standing on a helicopter! He is decked out in his flashiest championship regalia, including his championship belt. He tosses down a capsule containing nearly two dozen tiles and leaps down from the helicopter to break them all while. While we do not see if he has broken them all, the next scene shows him blowing on his red and aching hand. Son Goku emerges from a building with a collection of fruit to eat. He is surprised, but not unhappy, that Mister Satan has been given credit for defeating Cell at the Cell Games.
Film
Preliminary Battles
A series of preliminary battles are being waged on Battle Island as the announcer reminds the assembled crowds of the rules: there are 200 contestants gathered for a chance to face off against Mister Satan in the finale. To determine who will face him, the contestants will first fight in eight simultaneous "Battle Royales" to enter the semi-finals. Contestants are eliminated for falling from the stage, being knocked out, or giving up. Killing and weapons are strictly forbidden. While this is being explained, Dosukoi, a sumo wrestler, battles in his first match and narrowly avoids being pushed out of bounds, but recovers and tosses a group of opponents off instead. Mister Satan and the Money family watch over the event in their special moving luxury box.
On a set of moving platforms, Kuririn rapidly knocks out a half dozen opponents with a smile while he thinks of what he will do with the prize, a tour of hot springs around the world. He hears Chi-Chi calling to Gohan from the audience and his face drops. How can he win against a Super Saiyan? From off to his right, he hears that Piccolo is competing as well and knocking off martial artists with ease. Even Future Trunks is competing! Kuririn wishes that only Yamcha and Tenshinhan had decided to attend so that he would have stood a chance.
In the stands nearby, Chi-Chi tells Bulma, with an infant Trunks in tow, that Gohan needs to compete to keep up his strength thanks to all of his studying. Bulma tells Chi-Chi that she had hoped to take the hot springs tour prize with her family, especially now that Trunks returned from the future with the news that he was able to defeat Artificial Human No. 17 and No. 18. Bulma also reveals that Vegeta has lost the will to fight since Goku died. In another section of the stands Chiaotzu cheers on Tenshinhan while Oolong roots for Kuririn. While they watch the match, the Turtle Hermit has climbed a pole to get a better look at all of the beautiful women in attendance. The Hermit says that he doesn't need to watch since they already know that Gohan or Trunks will win, so he's going to look for D-cups instead. He approaches a group of young women with a lecherous look on his face; they scream.
On the Serpentine Road, Son Goku and Kaiō watch the tournament on TV at their makeshift home on the road. Goku is sad that he is unable to complete himself, but is excited to see how Gohan and Trunks fare in the tournament.
Back at the tournament, Yamcha relaxes on top of a tall pillar while the fighters battle it out far below. He complains that he had to borrow money to attend in the hope of winning the 100,000,000 zeni.[note 2] Unknown to Yamcha, one of the battle cameras has noticed him and broadcasts his relaxing to the tournament audience. Chi-Chi and Bulma lament that he doesn't even try, but then resume fighting over whether Future Trunks or Gohan is more powerful, while Kid Trunks looks on in confusion. Far below Yamcha, Dosukoi cleans up the rest of his first round competitors. Completely by accident, he knocks over the pillar that Yamcha is laying on, sending him falling into the water and disqualification.
High above, Son Gohan knocks competitor after competitor off his platform. He remarks to himself that his father got stronger while participating in the Tenka'ichi Budōkai and so can he. In the moving luxury box, Mister Satan eats with the Money family. When it is announced that Gohan passed his preliminary, Satan nearly chokes on his food. Trunks is the next contestant to win his round. Mister Satan just sits there with his mouth open. On Kuririn's battle platform, the battle is not over but the whole platform begins to tilt, causing every remaining contestant to fall off. Only Kuririn manages to hold onto the edge long enough to secure the win. In his luxury box, Mister Satan drops his fork. In short order, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Dosukoi, Udo, and Kung-fun all win their matches. Mister Satan presses his face against the glass of his booth in despair. He turns to leave, but a reporter stops him and asks him impression of the semi-finalists. Satan responds that they could all use more training.
Semi-Finals
The announcer reveals the line-ups for the semi-finals: Dosukoi vs King-fun, Piccolo vs Kuririn, Tenshinhan vs Future Trunks, and Udō vs Son Gohan. Kuririn despairs that he will have to go against Piccolo but Gohan will be in the first match.
On the battle stage, Udō towers over Gohan. He promises not to be easy on the boy, but Gohan just cheerfully agrees and the match begins. Gohan immediately does a foot sweep and knocks Udō out of the ring. He flies so hard that he crashes through a nearby rocky outcropping before crashing into the water. In his viewing booth, Mister Satan is speechless.
The announcer reveals that Trunks vs Tenshinhan will be the next match. Tenshinhan tells Trunks not to go easy on him and they set up, careening around the island in a flurry of movement. They take to the air, must to the astonishment of the audience.
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 | ||
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| Son Goku | Masako Nozawa | Sean Schemmel | |
| Son Gohan | Stephanie Nadolny | ||
| Piccolo | Toshio Furukawa | Christopher R. Sabat | |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Sonny Strait | |
| Trunks (Future) | Takeshi Kusao | Eric Vale | |
| Yamcha | Furuya Tooru | ||
| Tenshinhan | Suzuoki Hirotaka | ||
| Chiaotzu | Emori Hiroko | ||
| Vegeta | Ryō Horikawa | Christopher R. Sabat | |
| Satan | Gouri Daisuke | ||
| Bulma | Hiromi Tsuru | Tiffany Vollmer | |
| Chi-Chi | Naoko Watanabe | Cynthia Cranz | |
| Oolong | Naoki Tatsuta | Brad Jackson | |
| Turtle Hermit | Kōhei Miyauchi | Mike McFarland | |
| Bojack | Genda Tesshou | ||
| Gokua | Morikawa Toshiyuki | ||
| Zangya | Morikawa Toshiyuki | ||
| Bido | Egawa Hisao | ||
| 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.
- Executive Producers: Chiaki Imada, Yoshio Anzai (Shueisha)
- Original Story: Akira Toriyama (Weekly Shōnen Jump Serialization)
- Planning: Kōzō Morishita, Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV), Kōji Kaneda (Fuji TV), Weekly Shōnen Jump
- Production Supervisor: Higuchi Munehisa
- Screenplay: Takao Koyama
- Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Art Director: Tokushige Ken
- Animation Supervisor: Yamamuro Tadayoshi
- Supervisor: Yamauchi Shigeyasu
- Director: Ueda Yoshihiro
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Notes
- ↑ Although not clearly depicted in the close-up shots, the "spacecraft" resembles a Namekian spacepod when seen later on the TV. Exactly how Mister Satan would have known to design it this way is unrevealed.
- ↑ Although the value of zeni is not consistent in the anime, it usually approximates that of the Japanese yen. In that case, 100,000,000 zeni would be approximately one million dollars.
References
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