It has been a number of years since Goku and his Dragon Ball
friends appeared on the big screen in Japan, and now that they’re back,
fans of the hugely popular anime and manga series have been flocking to
the movie theaters. Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami (“Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods”)
made its debut last weekend on March 30th, playing at 312 theaters
across Japan, and becoming the country’s first film to be shown in
digital IMAX.
As the first DBZ movie in 17 years, its existence was first revealed last summer, and since then fans have been eagerly waiting for its release. Over the film’s opening two days, it drew in 561,098 viewers in Japan, racking up a huge 683,925,000 yen (approx. $7.1 million) in box office sales. This is several times more than the opening weekend sales of the last two One Piece movie releases, another massively popular anime and manga series. Toei, the production company behind the DBZ movies, says that it predicts Battle of Gods to go on to make roughly 3 billion yen ($31.2 million) at the box office.
Buzz on the internet reveals that DBZ fans are for the most part pleased, however some have mentioned that this entry in the long-running series is heavy on the comedy aspects and rather light on the super-power battles that the anime is often known for. One aspect that has been almost universally praised is just how gorgeous the colors and artwork look, no doubt thanks to the improvements in animation technology over the 17-year hiatus
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