It’s one of those wishes that has been teased and will be teased numerous times in the show, but never feels like something that will actually be attained. I like how it tries to kind of upend the status quo by having the villain very early in the picture actually make a wish for immortality. The story almost fits in with the series, and it’s kind of like an alternate way to introduce the character of Gohan and bridge Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING DRAGON BALL Z OST MOVIEOf course, Frieza will eventually take this one step further by going from tame, to scary, and back to tame again.ĭead Zone is a perfectly solid way to kick-off the Dragon Ball Z movie franchise. In what is commonplace for DBZ, the once un-intimidating villain transforms into something more deadly. They quickly dispatch the giant Ox King and Chi-Chi and make off with Gohan before Goku (Sean Schemmel) can return from fishing. The same shady characters that accosted Piccolo show up. When his mother Chi-Chi (Cynthia Cranz) calls him in, his Grandpa the Ox King (Kyle Hebert) pulls up and Gohan cheerfully greets him. We’re then taken to Goku’s house where Gohan (Stephanie Nadolny) is quietly studying in the woods nearby. Piccolo is overwhelmed and apparently left for dead. Unknown to them, apparently, is that both are linked to the Dragon Balls because the characters mention them as well. They mention Kami and it’s obvious they want to eliminate not just Piccolo but also the Earth’s guardian. He kind of looks like a cross between Piccolo and Emperor Pilaf (and basically sounds just like Pilaf in the Funimation dub).ĭead Zone has a cold open, a trend for the films, and starts on Piccolo (Christopher Sabat) quietly training on his own before he’s accosted by some shady characters. WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING DRAGON BALL Z OST SERIESStylistically, it also fits right-in with the style of the early episodes of the series with more curved lines and rounded musculature on the characters as opposed to the later, more straight-line heavy look of the series that’s likely the defining style of the show these days. WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING DRAGON BALL Z OST FULLThere’s little in the way of extra flourishes, instead it just looks like Toei utilized their full budget and best team so it looks like one of the ‘A’ episodes of Dragon Ball Z. Especially considering that Dead Zone is largely animated in the same manner as the anime series. I don’t know if that performance was viewed as positive or not, but for comparison 1988’s My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies is estimated to have grossed around 5 million, so it would seem this was pretty solid. The film was originally released theatrically in Japan right after the conclusion of the Raditz conflict, and grossed around 9 million USD. is and concerned you may have forgotten about him – don’t worry, he’s never existed in Dragon Ball. (Chuck Huber), and if you’re wondering who Garlic Sr. are unaware of the existence of Gohan to start DBZ then this film could be shoe-horned into the canon. If not for the fact that Master Roshi and co. The dreaded Dead Zone, from which the English version of the film takes its name.ĭead Zone, or Return My Gohan!!, is basically set before the events of Dragon Ball Z. There’s also the option to listen to the Japanese audio with subtitles, something that’s pretty much a given these days, but once upon a time was not a guaranteed feature. If you want the original opening music you have to watch the full Japanese audio) while still including the US soundtrack for people who wanted it. When Funimation re-mastered and re-released all of the movies in 2011 they wisely restored the Japanese soundtrack (though oddly they went with their generic butt-rock opening theme instead of “Cha-la Head Cha-la” for the English dub with Japanese BGM. In doing so, they also inserted a new soundtrack that was okay, at least it didn’t utilize a bunch of awful licensed music like their dub of the OVAs, but I’m sure it was frustrating for fans of the Japanese dub. They held the rights to the films long after Funimation started dubbing the episodes Ocean never tackled, and once the rights expired Funimation went back and re-dubbed the first three films with their own cast that fans are now likely more familiar with. The original dubs were edited and contained some odd choices in terms of translation, though Ocean at least hired quality talent. As a result of many re-runs on Cartoon Network, English speaking fans are likely pretty familiar with the first three films: Dead Zone, The World’s Strongest, and Tree of Might. When Pioneer tried to bring Dragon Ball Z to North America, they contracted Ocean Productions to dub the first 100 or so episodes as well as the first three movies. English Release Date: Decem(Pioneer/Ocean Productions), (Funimation)įor the very fist Dragon Ball Z movie I feel like we need to do a little house-keeping before we get into it.
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