New DBZ Movie!? WTF!?!?!?

Kyanbu The Legend · 07-26-2012, 09:12 PM

http://thedaoofdragonball.com/blog/n...-film-in-2013/

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There�s a new Dragon Ball Z film coming out in 2013 co-written by Akira Toriyama!

As announced in my previous breaking news article, a new DBZ film is in development.

French website Manga-News.com is reporting first details about the new Dragon Ball movie.

The film will be animated, not live action.

The movie will take place at some point during during the 10 year break after the Majin Buu Saga of Dragon Ball Z. It will be written as part of the official timeline between chapter 517 and 518 of the manga.

The script will be co-written by Akira Toriyama, who has never been so deeply involved with the animated portion of his series before.

Some of the other main talents involved have previous Dragon Ball experience, including director Masahiro Hosoda, who directed some episodes of the Cell Saga in DBZ.

The main screenwriter is Yusuke Watanabe (Live Gantz, 20th Century Boys 2) and the main animation director is Tadayoshi Yamamuro, who has worked on Dragon Ball before. It looks like it will be animated by Toei, as expected.

On the poster is a note from Akira Toriyama Sensei himself, next to his iconic Tori-bot likeness.

Toriyama says:

It�s rare, or I should say, it�s the first time, that I�ve been deeply involved with the animation from the scriptwriting stage.

It had been a while, so there was a lot I�d forgotten, but as expected of the creator of the original work, I was soon able to get back into the tempo of things, at least.

For this film, while leaving the atmosphere of the original intact, we�ve added just a little bit of modern flavor, so I think it will be an enjoyable work of entertainment, just like old times.

The poster also points to a new movie specific website, at www.dragonball2013.com that redirects to a Toei sub-page with some placeholder content there at the moment.

UPDATE ON JULY 14: The site has launched, and currently features a News section stating that the movie has been announced in Weekly Shonen Jump number 33, with a note by Akira Toriyama sensei.

When will the New Dragon Ball Z film come out?

It will premiere March 30, 2013 in theaters across Japan with a �super� wide release!

So now that we know, it�s time to get excited. Leave your comments below!

Welcome back Goku! Let�s do this!!

Well as a DBZ fan that's not a complete idiot. All I have to say is I hope Gohan gets his moment in the spot light as the main hero.

Flarecobra · 07-26-2012, 09:13 PM

At least it's not live-action.

Kyanbu The Legend · 07-26-2012, 09:16 PM

I love how they went out their way to state that.

POS Industries · 07-26-2012, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

Well as a DBZ fan that's not a complete idiot.

Nikose Tyris · 07-26-2012, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

Well as a DBZ fan that's not a complete idiot.

Some parts are missing?

Aerozord · 07-26-2012, 09:35 PM

animated with original manga-ka helping with the writing. Could be good. Honestly if its just mindless popcorn movie like say first Brolly movie where we just get to watch an awesome fight for half the movie I will be satisfied.

RobinStarwing · 07-26-2012, 09:45 PM

2013 will be an awesome year for anime classics me thinks.

*is going to post something shortly*

Bells · 07-26-2012, 09:46 PM

The only DBZ animated movies i enjoyed were the Brolly ones, and that's just cause i really wanted to scrap the entire boo saga and replace with the Brolly Saga... it would be a fitting end. But even those weren't all that great...

that 2008 special was neat but it was just fan pandering so you can't really expect much... now a days a lot of animes have really good feature lenght productions, but i'm not sure the entire cast of DBZ can fit in something that's about a hour long and actually good...

Aerozord · 07-26-2012, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bells

The only DBZ animated movies i enjoyed were the Brolly ones, and that's just cause i really wanted to scrap the entire boo saga and replace with the Brolly Saga... it would be a fitting end. But even those weren't all that great...

oh in many ways it was garbage on a narrative level. Plot was contrived (thought interesting) and the end was a total cop-out. However it was very entertaining.

Actually the only movie I can think of that was "good" was the Bardok movie. I mean it was objectively a good movie in its own right. Just I think that might be expecting abit too much.

Kyanbu The Legend · 07-26-2012, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Some parts are missing?

Yes but honestly no one is perfect.

Anyway, I agree the Bardock movie was pretty interesting. It makes me wish we got to learn more about Freeza and King Cold.

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Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	animated with original manga-ka helping with the writing. Could be good. Honestly if its just mindless popcorn movie like say first Brolly movie where we just get to watch an awesome fight for half the movie I will be satisfied. __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

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Bells That's so PC of you Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In a Server-sided Dimension where time is meaningless Posts: 10,490	The only DBZ animated movies i enjoyed were the Brolly ones, and that's just cause i really wanted to scrap the entire boo saga and replace with the Brolly Saga... it would be a fitting end. But even those weren't all that great... that 2008 special was neat but it was just fan pandering so you can't really expect much... now a days a lot of animes have really good feature lenght productions, but i'm not sure the entire cast of DBZ can fit in something that's about a hour long and actually good... __________________ *BELLS STORE : Clothes! You wear* them! Free US Shipping Subscription System? WTF?! Zazzle Black!**