Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
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Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, released in Japan as Dragon Ball Z for its Japanese theatrical release and Dragon Ball Z: Ora no Gohan o Kaesetsu!! (ドラゴン ボール ゼット オラ の 悟飯 を かえせッ!!, Doragon Bōru Zetto: Ora no Gohan o Kaesetsu!!) for its Japanese domestic release, was released on July 15, 1989 in Japan between "Terror on Arlia" and "Global Training".
Dead Zone was licensed in North America by FUNimation and sub-licensed to Geneon Universal Entertainment. Geneon's dub used the same voice cast as the TV series did at the time and was dubbed by Ocean Productions. For its television airings, it was retitled Dead Zone Vortex. Geneon's dub was released on VHS and DVD on December 9, 1997. Once their sub-license expired, FUNimation re-released the film on DVD on November 14, 2006 with a completely new dub done by FUNimation's new voice cast as part of a movie box set titled First Strike, which also contained The World's Strongest and The Tree of Might. It was later remastered and released in a Double Feature set with The World's Strongest on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on May 27, 2008. The film was released on DVD again on November 1, 2011 in a remastered box set containing the first five Dragon Ball Z movies. AB Groupe dubbed it as In Pursuit of Garlic.
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Synopsis
Garlic Junior wanted revenge for his father, Garlic, and wished for eternal life. In order to have his wish fulfilled, he had to gather the Dragon Ball. His servants kidnapped Son Goku's son, Son Gohan, to get a Dragon Ball he had in his hat. Garlic then summoned Shen Long with the Dragon Balls and wished for eternal life.
Goku combined forces with his archrival, Piccolo Junior, in order to save the world. With the help of Piccolo, and later Kuririn, Goku was able to defeat Garlic's evil servants and rescue Gohan. Since Garlic had been Kami's rival in the past, he felt responsible for the recent situation with Garlic's son and confronted him. He was unable to defeat him, however, and in a last ditch effort he decided to sacrifice himself in order to kill him. This plan failed.
Piccolo and Goku arrived in time to take on Garlic, but after a long hard battle, they found themselves defeated and exhausted. Garlic used the Dead Zone to open a portal in order to trap everyone within. With time running out, and Planet Earth moments away from being sucked into oblivion, Goku realized that the massive dormant power that lay within his son was the world's last hope against Garlic's Dead Zone. Gohan's hidden power manifested itself and he sent Garlic into the portal, trapping him inside and saving the planet.
Characters
Major battles
- Piccolo vs. Ginger, Nikki, and Sansho (Victor = Ginger, Nikki, and Sansho)
- Chichi vs. Ginger (Victor = Ginger)
- Goku vs. Ginger, Nikki & Sansho (Victor = Draw)
- Kami vs. Garlic Jr. (Victor = Draw)
- Piccolo vs. Sansho (Victor = Piccolo)
- Goku vs. Ginger & Nikki (Victor = Goku)
- Goku and Piccolo vs. Garlic Jr. (Victor = Draw)
- Goku vs. Piccolo (Victor = Draw)
- Gohan vs. Garlic Jr. (Victor = Gohan)
Voice cast
Continuity
Dead Zone is one of the few films that takes place after the end of Dragon Ball and before the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. The events of this movie can be placed into the series timeline between the episodes "The End, The Beginning" of the Piccolo Jr. Saga and "The New Threat" of the Vegeta Saga.
A few discrepancies do exist. For example, Kuririn was introduced to Gohan in the film, yet he did not know who he was in the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. Additionally, in "Unlikely Alliance" ("The World's Strongest Team" in the original dub), Goku comments on his discovery that Piccolo trains with weighted clothes, however, he makes the same comments in Dead Zone.
Releases
The movie was originally released on both VHS and Laserdisc in Japan. They were in a 16:9 format, cropped from it's original 4:3 format. It was then released later in Japan as part of the well-known Dragon Box sets, remastered from it's original film masters and in a 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format. There was much controversy from fans over the decision to crop the movies from it's original 4:3 format. The controversy died down when Toei Animation announced that the films were originally animated for widescreen viewing. The boxed set was released (containing all four Dragon Ball and all thirteen Dragon Ball Z movies) with great critical and audience reception.
It was released on March 17, 1997 in the United States, shortly before the release of the second movie, The World's Strongest, and the third movie, The Tree of Might, by FUNimation and Pioneer Entertainment on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. The three movies were uncut and contained both the Ocean Group dub and the original Japanese dub. They were also released for the first time in a 4:3 format.[1] The three movies were re-released together by Pioneer on October 9, 2001, in a three-movie boxset called "Dragon Ball Z - Movie Boxed Set".[2]
After FUNimation acquired the exclusive DVD rights for the first three movies from Pioneer in 2004, they released Return my Gohan!! again in May 31, 2005, containing a brand new in-house dub and the original Japanese dub.[3] It was later re-released in November 14, 2006, along with the The World's Strongest and The Tree of Might movies, in a "First Strike" DVD boxset.[4]
FUNimation re-released this film in May 27, 2008, alongside The World's Strongest, digitally remastered and in a 16:9 format as a "Double Feature" DVD and Blu-ray Disc.[5]
Music
- Opening theme (OP)
- "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" (Chara Hetchara) (OP animation 1)
- Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music: Chiho Kiyooka, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama
- "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" (Chara Hetchara) (OP animation 1)
- Insertion song (IN)
- "Tenkaichi Gohan"; 天下一ゴハン (The World's Greatest Gohan)
- Lyrics: Sakiko Iwamuro, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Masako Nozawa (Son Gohan)
- "Tenkaichi Gohan"; 天下一ゴハン (The World's Greatest Gohan)
- Ending theme (ED)
- "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!"; でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー! (Come On Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!)
- Lyrics: Toshihisa Arakawa, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: MANNA
- "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!"; でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー! (Come On Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!)
- Additional orchestral music composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi.
Trivia
- This is the only movie where Kami not only appears, but actually fights (not counting Piccolo in Movie 6, 7, 8, 9, and 14).
- Flashbacks in the Dragon Ball Z episodes "The Heavens Tremble", "Black Fog of Terror", and "Fight with Piccolo" feature animated footage from Dead Zone.
- This is the only movie to feature the ending theme song from the TV series ("Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!"). All other movies feature original songs as the ending themes.
- This is one of the only post-Dragon Ball entries in the series where Goku uses the Power Pole in combat, along with The World's Strongest.
- Despite being released under the Ultimate Uncut Special Edition line, the FUNimation version is actually more edited than the original Pioneer release.
- While the movie itself was fully uncut, the Special Edition version used the wrong opening animation. This was corrected in the double feature release.
- After the credits on the Pioneer DVD release, the original episodes 1 and 9 are shown in Japanese with English subtitles, as they were two episodes yet to be dubbed in full at the time.
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References
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Z-Movie-Dead/dp/6304677022/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241652762&sr=8-7
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Movie-Worlds-Strongest/dp/B00005NX1I/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241652762&sr=8-8
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Z-Movie-Uncut/dp/B0007LXOUK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241652762&sr=8-3
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Z-First-Strike/dp/B000ION28A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241653387&sr=8-1
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Double-Feature-Strongest/dp/B00143XE5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241653737&sr=1-1
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