全宇宙の運命を賭けた魔人ブウとの壮絶な戦いから4年後。平和な地球に再び危機が訪れようとしていた。創造神である界王神と対を成す全宇宙のバランスを保つ存在、破壊神ビルスが長い眠りから目覚めた。その目的は、破壊神である自身に比肩しうる力を持つ可能性を秘めた“超サイヤ人ゴッド”なる存在が、39年後に現れるという予言を信じてのことだった。 付き人であるウイスから、フリーザを倒したというサイヤ人の話を聞き、界王星に修行に来ていた孫悟空の前に現われる。「強さの次元が違う」という未知の存在を目の前にワクワクする悟空は、界王の忠告を聞かずにビルスに闘いを挑む。
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監督: 細田雅弘
音楽: 住友紀人
制作: 野崎理 / 冨永理生子 / ギャルマト・ボグダン
撮影監督: 増元由紀大
制作会社: Bandai Namco Games / Toei Animation / Fuji Television Network / Shueisha / Toei Company / Fox International Productions Japan / Bandai
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!
