Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
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| Premiere Date | 30 March 2013 | ||
| EIRIN Code | 119385 | ||
| Running Time |
85 minutes (Theatrical) 105 minutes (Special Edition) | ||
| Main Staff Credits | |||
| Scenario |
Yūsuke Watanabe Akira Toriyama (Revision) | ||
| Art |
Hiroshi Katō Hirotsugu Kakoi | ||
| Animation | Tadayoshi Yamamuro | ||
| Director | Masahiro Hosoda | ||
| Executive Producer |
Shinji Shimizu Yoshihiko Taneda | ||
| Production | Toei Animation | ||
| FUNimation Dub | |||
| Title | Battle of Gods | ||
| Premiere Date | 05 August 2014 | ||
"Battle of Gods" is the fourteenth theatrical film of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z and the first in 17 years since the series' original syndication. The movie premiered in theaters on 30 March 2013. Directed by Masahiro Hosoda, the movie's original script was written by Yūsuke Watanabe and re-written by original author Akira Toriyama.
Summary
It is several years after the battle with Majin Buu. On North Kaiō's planet, Goku has come over to train, while Kaiō telepathically talks with East Kaiōshin and the Elder Kaiōshin. The three gods are discussing the early awakening of Beerus, the God of Destruction. Kaiō explains to Goku that in this world there are gods who create and gods who destroy. While Goku is eager to fight Beerus, Kaiō warns him that the God of Destruction's power is in a league of its own.
At Beerus' palace, awakening bombs are going off, and his attendant Whis comes to wake him up. Beerus is cranky because he "only" slept for 39 years. They discuss Planet Vegeta's destruction by Freeza, and how Freeza was defeated by the Saiyan Son Goku, who became a Super Saiyan. Beerus remembers that while asleep he dreamed of fighting the "Super Saiyan God", which he believes to be the fearsome foe predicted 39 years earlier by the Oracle Fish. It was in order to fight this prophesied strong opponent that Beerus woke up in this era. Beerus and Whis head for Kaiō's planet to question Goku about Super Saiyan God. Goku has never heard of it before, but respectfully requests a match with Beerus to test his power. Beerus handily defeats Super Saiyan 3 Goku in two blows, then departs for Earth to see if Vegeta and the other Saiyans there know anything of Super Saiyan God.
On Earth, Bulma is throwing a huge birthday party for herself, centering around an elaborate bingo tournament with big prizes, including the complete set of Dragon Balls. While virtually all of her friends and family are there, Vegeta is off training on his own. Kaiō contacts Vegeta and warns him of Beerus, who may destroy Earth if anything annoys him. Vegeta panics when he learns Beerus defeated Goku, and goes to warn everyone, but Beerus and Whis are already there. They question Vegeta, but he knows nothing about Super Saiyan God either. Beerus and Whis decide to stay and enjoy Bulma's party, with Vegeta doing everything in his power to keep Beerus happy.
Meanwhile, Pilaf, Shu, and Mai sneak into the Capsule Corporation grounds in search of the Dragon Balls there. The trio actually managed to gather them all some time ago, but Pilaf wished for youth rather than world domination, and now all three of them are little kids. Trunks stumbles on them, followed by Goten. Trunks claims that Mai is his girlfriend, while Mai secretly steals the Four-Star Ball to hold for ransom. When the bingo tournament begins and the theft is discovered, the Pilaf trio holds Trunks hostage at gunpoint. Nobody is very concerned for Trunks' safety, but nevertheless Gohan changes into his Great Saiyaman costume and challenges the Pilaf trio to shoot him. Their bullets have no effect on Gohan, but Videl is accidentally shot in the leg. When Dende heals her, he realizes she is… Videl cuts him off and swears him to secrecy. The Pilaf trio gives up, and everyone forgives them.
Beerus is annoyed that Super Saiyan God still has not shown up and is about to destroy the planet, but Vegeta gets him to calm down by desperately performing a song and dance about bingo. While the tournament finally gets underway, Beerus goes to eat some custard pudding, but finds Majin Buu hoarding them all. Buu refuses to share and attacks Beerus, who finally snaps. A fight breaks out between Beerus and everyone else, but Beerus effortlessly outclasses them all. Meanwhile, Whis wanders off to a nearby sushi stand to eat.
An enraged Bulma slaps Beerus for ruining her party, and when Beerus slaps her back, Vegeta goes berserk and knocks Beerus around. Kame-Sen'nin says Vegeta seems to have surpassed Goku, but ultimately his attacks do nothing against Beerus. Having won, Beerus is about to destroy the Earth again when Goku suddenly appears on the scene. Though Goku still has not solved the mystery of Super Saiyan God, he thinks he might be able to if given a little more time. Using the Dragon Balls, he asks Shenlong about the matter. Shenlong explains that Super Saiyan God was a being accidentally created by pure-hearted Saiyans long ago in order to oppose Planet Vegeta's dominant evil Saiyans. It was produced when five pure-hearted Saiyans infused their light into another pure-hearted Saiyan. However, its power ran out before it could completely defeat the evil Saiyans, so Planet Vegeta once more became dominated by evil Saiyans, and Super Saiyan God was erased from legend.
Now that they know the method, Goku and the rest attempt to produce Super Saiyan God. After some arguing over who does and does not count as "pure-hearted", Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, and Trunks all perform a ritual to donate their power to Goku. This causes Goku's power to greatly increase, but he has actually done nothing more than gather up everyone else's power and is not really Super Saiyan God. They realize that, per Shenlong's instructions, they need a total of six pure-hearted Saiyans: five to donate power and one to receive it. While everyone despairs of finding another Saiyan, Videl reveals what Dende had learned earlier: she is pregnant with Gohan's child. After briefly celebrating, they perform the ritual again with Videl, and this time Goku successfully becomes Super Saiyan God. Visually he is not much different: his hair is red, he has a thinner physique, and when he fights he emits a fiery red aura. Finally confronted by this “formidable foe”, Beerus promises not to destroy the Earth if Goku wins.
The fight begins, and though the two seem evenly matched, Goku feels dissatisfied with Super Saiyan God because he could only reach this level of power with everyone's help. Annoyed at Goku's reservations, Beerus reveals that he still had not been fighting at full power. He gives Goku a tougher fight until Goku reverts back to being a regular Super Saiyan. Goku does not notice and continues to barely keep up with Beerus. Finally, Beerus fires a huge energy ball which Goku struggles to keep from destroying Earth. Beerus explains that while fighting as Super Saiyan God, Goku absorbed that level of power into his own body and has not greatly powered down even after returning to normal. He thinks Goku should finally feel satisfied, since he can fight Beerus with his own power, but Goku cannot push back Beerus' energy ball. As his friends and family cheer him on, Goku briefly becomes Super Saiyan God once more and repels the attack. Out of energy, he surrenders at Beerus' request.
Beerus praises Goku as the second strongest person he has ever fought. It turns out that Whis is not just Beerus' attendant, but his martial arts master as well. Furthermore, Beerus explains that he is the God of Destruction for the Seventh Universe. The world Goku knows is just the seventh out of twelve universes, and Beerus imagines there might be even more incredible people out there. Having won the fight, he starts to destroy Earth as promised, but his attack only destroys a small rock. He says he is out of stamina and will destroy the rest of Earth next time. He and Whis depart, leaving on friendly terms, while Goku and friends continue Bulma's party.
Back at his palace, Beerus tells Whis that Goku was not a truly “formidable” opponent, but that both he and Vegeta might eventually grow strong enough to warrant the term. Whis hits Beerus to put him to sleep for another three years, then tells him to brush his teeth first. Back on Earth, Goku comments on how incredible Vegeta was after Bulma got slapped by Beerus. He had actually been there watching the whole time while everyone was being beaten by Beerus, but did not step in earlier because he wanted to investigate how Beerus fought. Indignant, Vegeta tells Bulma to slap Goku, and she happily agrees.
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.
Main Staff
- Original Author, Story, & Character Design: Akira Toriyama
- Planning
- Shueisha: Kazuhiko Torishima
- Toei Animation: Kōzō Morishita
- Senior Producer
- Toei Animation: Shinji Shimizu
- Fuji TV: Yoshihiko Taneda
- Producer: Rioko Tominaga, Gyarmath Bogdan
- Scenario: Yūsuke Watanabe
- Music: Norihito Sumitomo
- Production Supervisor: Kazumi Fujioka
- Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu
- Recording: Satoru Matsuda
- Sound Effects: Hidenori Arai
- Storyboard: Kimitoshi Chioka, Kazuhisa Takenōchi, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Masahiro Hosoda
- Animation Supervisor: Takeo Ide, Toshiyuki Kan'no, Yōsuke Yabumoto, Masahiro Shimanuki, Ryō Ōnishi, Yūichi Hamano
- Color Design: Teppei Hotta
- Special Effects: Nao Ōta
- CG Director: Naoki Miyahara
- Assistant Director: Yasunori Gotō
- Supervising Art Director & Art Design: Hiroshi Katō
- Art Director: Hirotsugu Kakoi
- Animation Character Design & Chief Animation Supervisor: Tadayoshi Yamamuro
- Director: Masahiro Hosoda
- Animation Production: Toei Animation
- Distribution: Toei & 20th Century Fox Movies
- Production: "2013 Dragon Ball Z" Production Committee (Toei, Fox International Productions Japan, Shueisha, Fuji Television, Toei Animation, Bandai, Bandai Namco Games)
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