Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ドラゴンボール超: スーパーヒーロ) is now finally premiered in Japan, and Crunchyroll had revealed a new trailer on Friday for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero – the second anime film in the Dragon Super franchise.
It is also said that the film will be the 21st anime film in the overall Dragon Ball franchise.
Crunchyroll screened its first 20 minutes of the film for the attendee at San Diego Comic-Con International.
Toshio Furukawa (Japanese voice of Piccolo), Christopher R. Sabat (English voice of Piccolo), and producer Norihiro Hayashida were at the screening and shared their views.
About the Movie:
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero had already been released in Japan on June 11.
The film sold about 498,000 tickets for about 670 million yen (about US$4.99 million) in its first two days. The film had earned around total of 2,213,938,740 (about US$15.98 million) as of Wednesday.
The film opened after a delay due to the Toei Animation hack in March.
Toei Animation announced that on Friday that is March 6, an unauthorized third party accessed the company’s network, which resulted in a suspension of part of the company’s systems.
Toei Animation is investigating the matter, and added the hack will affect the broadcast schedules for the One Piece, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Delicious Party Precure, and Digimon Ghost Game anime.
The film was originally dated to release in Japan on April 22, but due delay the film began screening in IMAX starting on June 11, in 4DX and MX4D starting on June 25, and in Dolby Cinemas starting on July 1.
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures will screen the film in theaters worldwide this summer starting on August 18.
The film will also release in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland on August 19. The summer screenings will include both the original Japanese audio with subtitles and with a dub.
The companies will also distribute the film in all continents, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and excluding Japan.
Crunchyroll describes the film:
The Red Ribbon Army was once destroyed by Son Goku. Individuals, who carry on its spirit, have created the ultimate Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. These two Androids call themselves “Super Heroes”. They start attacking Piccolo and Gohan… What is the New Red Ribbon Army’s objective? In the face of approaching danger, it is time to awaken, Super Hero!
Casts of the Movie:
Tetsuro Kodama had directed the film, and Naoki Satō composed the music.
Nobuhito Sue was the art director, Chikashi Kubota was the animation director, and Jae Hoon Jung was the CG director.
Dragon Ball original manga creator is Akira Toriyama had worked on the film’s original story, screenplay, and character designs.
Guest cast members include:
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Gamma #1
- Mamoru Miyano as Gamma #2
- Miyu Irino as Dr. Hedo
- Volcano Ōta as Magenta
- Ryota Takeuchi as Carmine
The staff has previously revealed new character designs for Dende, Korin, and Bulma.
Whis and Beerus will also appear in the film.
About the Plot:
When the new leader of the Red Ribbon Army tricks Dr. Gero’s grandson into believing that Capsule Corp is actually an evil secret society working with aliens to prepare for an eventual invasion, he builds two superhero andriods to defeat the “Alien menace.”
But with Goku and Vegeta off-world, Buu asleep, and Gohan unmotivated and out of practice, it falls to Piccolo to stand up and save the world.
Abstracts:
In a special message relayed to fans by Dragon Ball’s official Twitter account (as translated by @Herms98 on Twitter), series creator Akira Toriyama began his review of the film as such:
“I’ve finally been able to see the completed movie! In short, it’s an amazing animated film! Well, I’m the original author, so perhaps it’s not too convincing for me to say stuff like this, but even so, I got carried away watching it! I may be an old man, but I got really excited.”
Additional Information:
In a pamphlet given to fans checking out Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero in Japan (as spotted by @DBSuperFrance and @Herms98 on Twitter), Dragon Ball series creator Akira Toriyama explained that he “totally forgot” that the main title of the film will also have the Dragon Ball Super title from the series so that’s why “Super” is repeated twice in the title.
“I guess everyone thought I had done this on purpose, because nobody pointed it out to me,” Toriyama continued before noting, “So it’s my fault that ‘Super’ is so repetitive.”–said by Akira Toriyama.
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