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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

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6.8/10 • 1.6K

2013-03-301h 25m

AnimationActionScience Fiction

Be there when a hero becomes a god.

The events of Battle of Gods take place some years after the battle with Majin Buu, which determined the fate of the entire universe. After awakening from a long slumber, Beerus, the God of Destruction is visited by Whis, his attendant and learns that the galactic overlord Frieza has been defeated by a Super Saiyan from the North Quadrant of the universe named Goku, who is also a former student of the North Kai. Ecstatic over the new challenge, Goku ignores King Kai's advice and battles Beerus, but he is easily overwhelmed and defeated. Beerus leaves, but his eerie remark of "Is there nobody on Earth more worthy to destroy?" lingers on. Now it is up to the heroes to stop the God of Destruction before all is lost.

Directors
Masahiro Hosoda
Characters
Akira Toriyama

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  1. Masako Nozawa

    Masako Nozawa

    Son Goku / Son Gohan / Son Goten (voice)

  2. Koichi Yamadera

    Koichi Yamadera

    Beerus (voice)

  3. Masakazu Morita

    Masakazu Morita

    Whis (voice)

  4. Ryo Horikawa

    Ryo Horikawa

    Vegeta (voice)

  5. Hiromi Tsuru

    Hiromi Tsuru

    Bulma Briefs (voice)

  6. Joji Yanami

    Joji Yanami

    Kaio / Dr. Briefs / Narrator (voice)

  7. Toshio Furukawa

    Toshio Furukawa

    Piccolo (voice)

  8. Shoko Nakagawa

    Shoko Nakagawa

    Oracle Fish (voice)

  9. Kenji Utsumi

    Kenji Utsumi

    Shenlong (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Mar 2, 2025

7/10

Now the Anubian “Beerus” is like most cats and even if he is the god of destruction he likes a nap! For some reason, though, he has asked his debonair vizier “Whis” to wake him after an wholly insufficient 39 years and so his master is groggy and grumpy. He perks up a little, though, when he learns that “Frieza” has been vanquished by the aspiring young “Goku”. Perplexed that this young Saiyan could defeat someone far superior, he decides to go and find out about the rumours of a Saiyan god - at last a challenge worthy of walking him up for. Where better to start than on the tiny home planet of the Kai King where the young “Goku” was known to be living. Sure enough, there he is, but he’s not really much of a combatant and so the irked god decides he will go to his home planet of Earth and, well, squash it. Luckily for mankind, his arrival coincides with a rather lavish birthday party and both he and “Whis” like a bit of the all-you-can-eat. Meantime, “Goku” has to figure out just how the dragon balls might be able to help. Perhaps the legendary dragon “Shenron” can be summoned and explain - but when he does, it poses quite a quandary for the youngsters who are finding that the lack of pudding cups is really tempting the now bored “Beerus” to just do his worst then go home for some milk and another nice fifty year snooze. Can they figure out the dragon’s clue in time? It did take me a while to get the images of Justin Chatwin and Chow-Yun Fat from 2009 out of my head, but once that was done we are left with an amiably entertaining mix of Japanese and Egyptian mythology that’s spent a decent amount of time on quite a fun script, plenty of vibrant action and lots of sushi! The style of the animation is admittedly very basic, and in many ways has the look of a 1970s cartoon to it, but there are plenty of characterisations here and the story allows for lots of mischief to mix in with the spirit bombs, energy attacks, and interplanetary travel as we build to a dual of momentous proportions. I think the Egyptian pantheon is my favourite, amalgamating as it does animalistic and human behaviour and traits into some superb fodder for animators, and here Masahiro Hosodo let’s his artists tell us a good old story of good v evil that doesn’t really require us to know much about the earlier “Dragon Ball” stories. It also benefits from not concluding in the fashion you might expect. Remember - it’s never a good idea to hog all the puddings!

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Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Budget
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Revenue
$50,461,371.00
Keywords
martial artsgodbased on mangabattledestructionshounenanimeadventure