Dragon Ball Z Movie #9
The Galaxy's In Danger!!! The Super Awesome Guy
Toei Anime Fair, July 10, 1993
The Money Family is hosting a Tenkai-ichi Budoukai as a birthday present for 10-year old Dollar Money. Dollar is hoping for aliens to come from space and join in the tournament, so four of Mr. Satan's pro-wrestling students are in costume as the "aliens" in the final rounds of the competition. Kaiou-sama and Gokuu are on Kaiou planet (Kaiou is watching the game on TV, Gokuu is playing Go Fish against Bubbles the ape -- the deck has Uranai Baba and Pilaf's crew on the face cards.)
The elimination rounds are basically 8 batches of free-for-alls; the last person standing in each free-for-all goes on to a one-on-one round. The Final Four each get shot into one of four "Battle Stages" to face Satan's "aliens." The first person to emerge from the Battle Stage wins the 100,000,000 zenni prize money, a trip to a hot spa, and a chance to fight Satan. Krilin, Future Trunks, teenaged Gohan, and Dosukoi make it to the Battle Zones, where they are attacked by real aliens (Satan's students have already been killed.) Kaiou-sama realizes that the aliens are Boujack's team. A LONG time ago, the four Kaiou's had battled Boujack, and imprisoned him far, far away. Boujack has escaped, and come to Earth to destroy it and kill Gohan as revenge on Kaiou-sama, knowing that Gokuu is Kaiou's student, Gohan is Gokuu's kid, and Earth is Gokuu's planet. There is a lot of fighting as all of the Z Fighters show up to attack Boujack's 5-man team. Eventually, the heroes are trashed, and Boujack is about to crush Gohan's throat. Gokuu can't take it any more, and the dead hero teleports in from heaven just long enough to kick Boujack in the face and save Gohan. With renewed anger, Gohan goes to Super Saiya-jin 2 (SSJ-2), and kills Boujack's remaining minions before killing Boujack. Satan had been trying to escape since seeing that the Z Fighters had entered the tournament, but was pushed into a sled and sent to the Battle Zone, where he succeeded in destroying the camera televising the fight with Boujack. At the end of the movie, Satan is again declared savior of Earth, and no one wins the prize money (Gohan, Trunks and Krilin are recovering in a hospital for some reason, while Piccolo and Vegita are already fully healed. This movie has lots of continuity flaws and plot holes. Definitely doesn't fit in with the manga or TV series. The best part of the movie is the shot of the Pilaf card deck.)
Gyousan Money -- Richest man on Earth. Short, fat, and balding. About 50.
Okkanee Money -- "Money Money". Gyousan's prim, tall wife.
Dollar Money -- Spoiled 10-year-old brat in short-leg bib overalls.
Producer -- The handsome "suit" producing the Budoukai for Gyousan is never referred to by name.
Udou -- Huge, fat American cowboy wrestler defeated by Gohan.
Kanfuun -- Some martial artist defeated in the one-on-one by Dosukoi.
Dosukoi -- Huge sumo wrestler in the Final Four. Killed by Bidou.
Boujack -- Big Blue baddy dressed in a pirate's outfit. Is considered more evil than Demon King Piccolo ever was. Killed by Gohan.
Gokua -- Blue-skinned punk with a sword. Quickly killed by Trunks
Bidou -- Kind of a Viking-Pirate mix. Is the most interesting of Boujack's team. Evilly handsome; killed by Gohan.
Puujin -- Small arrogant Blue-skinned baddy. Killed by Gohan.
Sangya -- Pretty, evil Blue woman with LONG golden hair. A good fighter; killed by Boujack. Boujack intentionally fired an energy blast at Gohan, through Sangya's back.
Dragon Ball Z Movie #10
Dangerous Partners!!! Super Warriors Never Rest
Toei Anime Fair
Goten, Trunks and Videl are out gathering up the Dragon Balls When asked, Trunks decides that he wants to have an amusement park just for him, while Goten wants to have a park filled with delicious cakes and candy and succeeds in grabbing the 5th one. Then they zip off to find the sixth one, they come upon a village terrorized by a monster dragon. The last girl in the village is about to be sacrificed to appease the monster, when Videl volunteers to take her place. Goten, Trunks, and Videl hide next to the supper set out for the monster, surprise it, and kill it (after much screwing around.) In return, Trunks receives the Dragon Ball attached to the village Shaman's necklace. Meanwhile, a Saiya-jin space capsule crashes to Earth nearby, and the sleeping Saiya-jin inside is aroused by vibrations caused by Goten when the boy wanted to eat the banquet set out for the monster. The Saiya-jin turns out to be Burolii. When Burolii stretches his muscles the next day, Videl senses it, and goes to fight him. Then she is followed by Goten and Trunks. Burolii thinks that Goten is Kakarot, and there is much fighting. The final Dragon Ball is located during the battle, but Goten doesn't know how to summon Shenlon, so Trunks gets trashed while trying to distract Burolii (Trunks also has to take a piss after hiding next to a bunch of waterfalls, and relieves himself on top of Burolii's head). Gohan senses Burolii's ki, and arrives to join in the battle. Gohan's blast causes lava to boil up, and Burolii is trapped in the magma. Gohan passes out as the magma inches near him. (Kuririn is dressed up like Piccolo as a joke when he saves Gohan.) But Burolii is a Super Saiya-jin, and the magma doesn't phase him. Gohan and Goten use the Kamahameha on Burolii. (And, probably because of the Dragon Balls nearby, Gokuu is allowed to show up to perform a Kamehameha as part of, the trio.) Trunks manages to throw an energy ball that distracts Brolly, and the triple Kamehameha blows Burolii into space, and into the sun. Videl recovers, and thinks that Gohan was masquerading as Burolii, and attacks him. Goten and Trunks go back to the village to get food, and Kuririn wonders why everyone has forgotten about him. (The Dragon Balls disperse as if Shenlon had fulfilled a wish.)
Koko -- Little Dutch girl, about to be sacrificed to the monster.
Chourou -- Leader of the forest village terrorize by the monster.
Kyouryuu -- The dragon terrorizing the village. Turned into cutlets by Trunks and Goten. Eaten by the village members.
Kitou-shi -- "Shaman." The village magician that wants to sacrifice Koko.
Brolly -- The legendary Super Saiya-jin apparently wasn't quite completely killed by Gokuu, and he found a space capsule that took him to Earth. Killed by Gokuu, Gohan and Goten.
Dragon Ball Z Movie #11
Super Warriors Vanquish!!! I am the Champion
Toei Anime Fair, July 9, 1994
#18 has gone to Mr. Satan's house to collect on the 20 million zenni prize money from the Tenkai-ichi Budoukai that she let Satan win. Satan claims that the money hasn't been turned over to him yet. Then, a minion of a guy who was a classmate of Satan's, arrives to blackmail Satan into going with him to fight some bio-tech warriors. The minion, Menmen, threatens to tell the papers that Satan was a bed wetter in 6th Grade. Satan caves in, and #18 goes along to keep Satan from running away. Goten and Trunks hide in the back of the car to try to fight these "bio-tech thingies", and Krilin is forced to take his daughter back to Kame House.
Baron Jagaa Badda has created some pro-wrestler-strength warriors, and he wants them to fight Satan, just to put Satan back in his place. Satan pretends that #18 and the two boys are his students, and they easily destroy the bio-tech baddies. However, Goten recognizes the guy standing beside Jagaa as being the Shaman from the forest village in the last movie. Turns out that the Shaman collected some of Brolly's blood at the battle site, and sold it to Jagaa. Jagaa had his scientists use the blood to create the "Ultimate Bio-tech Warrior." Trunks and Goten try to use Kamehame-ha on Burolii's container before Brolly can awaken, but it is too late. However, the process isn't complete, and Brolly is badly misformed. There is much fighting, the chemicals used in the bio-tech process get loose and eat up all living things, and Brolly trashes Goten, Trunks, and #18. Krilin arrives to protect his wife, and also gets trashed. Finally, the heroes rescue the scientists, and all of the people living on Jagaa's island escape onto ocean liners. The bio-tech chemicals try to eat Brolly, and are instead turned into an energy source for him. Ultimately, Goten discovers that the chemicals lose potency in sea water, so Krilin, Goten, and Trunks use a Kamehameha to create a tidal wave that cleanses the island. Burolii keeps trying to kill Goten, but is now vulnerable to Goten's and Trunks' energy blast. Brolly dies, and Mr. Satan tries to swim back home, rather than accepting #18's offer of saving him for a total of 1 Billion zenni.
Baron Jagaa Badda -- Short, fat, prissy former classmate of Mr. Satan's. Has lots of money, and is making bio-tech fighters because he can. Doesn't die, but his island does receive much costly damage.
Menmen -- Jagaa's tall, blond-haired minion. Is actually very inept, but pretends to arrogance.
Kitou-shi -- The Shaman is back, trying to make lots of money by selling Burolii's blood to Jagaa. Dies when the bio-tech chemicals eat him as he is trying to steal cash from Jagaa's office.
Dr. Korii -- The grey-haired scientist creating Jagaa's bio-tech fighters.
Nine -- Korii's chief assistant. A cute, but vacant-eyed woman.
Hei -- Jagaa's bio-tech wolf-dog. Eaten by the bio-tech chemicals.
Bio-Brolly -- A mis-formed bio-tech nightmare. Maybe stronger than the original. Remembers when Trunks had taunted him in the last movie. Destroyed by seawater, Goten, and Trunks.
Dragon Ball Z Movie #12
The Fusion Revival!!! Gokuu & Vegita
Toei Anime Fair, March 4, 1995
We are back in heaven, during the Budoukai held by Dai-Kaiou tod etermine who the greatest dead heroic fighter is. The four Kaiou's quarrel over who has the best student, and the final round is about to start, between West Kaiou's Son Gokuu, and South Kaiou's Paikuu-han. Both fighters want to win cleanly, and they begin sparring. Meanwhile, Enma Daioh (Heaven's Gatekeeper) is being harsher than normal, sending many, many souls to hell for one reason or another (the ones going to heaven get to ride Ten Airlines, while the ones going to Hell get to pass through a "Spritz Cleaner" machine that removes all the evil from them. Once cleansed, the evil souls have their memories removed, and are reincarnated to try again.) Psych Oni, the demon tending the Spritz Cleaner, is too busy dancing to his walkman tape to notice that the Cleaner is running in the red. The Cleaner regulator explodes, and all of the concentrated evil escapes. Psych Oni tries to contain the mess before tearfully reporting to Enma Daioh. At this point, the concentrated evil covering Psych takes effect, turning the boy into a giant yellow squeeze toy named Janenba. Janenba immediately encases Enma's Gate House in a magic crystal, and it then amuses itself by twisting the fabric of space for a while. With Enma trapped, the dead residing in Hell can escape and roam around on Earth. Gohan and Videl set out to combat the dead, while Goten and Trunks search for the Dragon Balls to set everything right again. Gohan gets to confront Freeza again, and very quickly destroys the monster. All of the other supporting villians from the previous DBZ movies also surface, only to be dispatched by the Great Saiya-man team. Shenlon is summoned, but the Dragon God has to admit that it has no jurisdiction over the dead, and it can't fix the problem involving Enma. So, Goten and Trunks spend the movie fighting the endless masses of Hitler's zombie armies. (Satan is also dispatching zombies easily, but he's upset that there's no TV crew around to broadcast his exploits; he plans on calling in a report to the TV station later.) Dai Kaiou suspends the Budoukai to let Paikuu-han and Gokuu run off to Enma's Gate House to resolve the problem. At first, they try to play with Janenba, until Gokuu starts getting mad. Unfortunately, Janenba can do transdimensional tricks, and it punches one way, only to have his fist appear elsewhere to blindside Gokuu. Paikuu-han is told by Dai-Kaiou to try to free Enma (eventually, Paikuu realizes that by swearing and insulting people, he can make the magic crystal crack and flake off.) Janenba can also make copies of itself, as well as warping Gokuu so that the hero will appear in front of his own Kamehameha. Gokuu switches up to SSJ-3 and pummels Janenba. The creature melts, only to turn into the next-stage version -- Changed Janenba. Janenba now uses a series of warp tricks à la "Total Recall", and trashes the SSJ3 Gokuu. Gokuu escapes deeper into Hell, first hiding in the Pool of Blood; then he gets rescued by the dead Vegita. (Vegita reminds Gokuu that only Vegita has the right to destroy Gokuu.) Vegita attacks Janenba, and also gets trashed. Vegita's body flies towards the Mountain of Needles, and is caught by Gokuu. Gokuu tries to get Vegita to do Fusion with him, but the Saiya-jin Prince would rather die first (Gokuu points out that Vegita IS dead.) Vegita's pride is tearing him up, and Janenba attacks the mountain, causing Gokuu to grab Vegita's shoulder and teleporting them both to a safe zone. Vegita relents, and Gokuu shows him the Fusion pose. Vegita is appalled at the idea of having to do something so stupid. But, there is no time left, so the two of them perform Fusion. Vegita forgets to extend his right forefinger, and the resulting Fat Gogita attracts Janenba's attention. The ensuing battle is plain slapstick (Gogita's only successful attack is a series of foul-smelling farts.) At the last moment, just as Janenba is going to destroy Gogita, the Fusion wears off (it took 30 minutes) and the two Saiya-jin run away again. Kaiou (West Kaiou was receiving a lot of abuse from his siblings for having such a useless student) telepaths out that Vegita botched the pose. So, they try again. And are interrupted by Janenba. Paikuu-han succeeds in breaking the magic crystal, and he runs to confront Janenba to give Gokuu and Vegita more time. Janenba apparently kills the dead Paikuu-han just as the Fusion takes hold. Gogita is formed. Trunks and Goten are still fighting against bad guys (Hitler's army). Gogita looks like Super Saiya-jin Gokuu, with a Persian-style vest and baggy pants. On Earth, Goten and Trunks sense the energy levels of their fathers, and the two boys also do Fusion to become Gotenks (Gotenks uses Kamikaze Ghost Attack to create 100 exploding ghosts to destroy Hitler's armies.) Gogita punches Janenba up a bit before performing "The Crystal Wave". The ball blows up in the monster's chest, and all of the evil within it dissipates. Psych returns to normal, takes one look at Gogita, and runs away screaming. Enma is back in charge, and the dead all return to Hell, including Vegita (Vegita says that he never wants to Fuse again). Goten and Trunks promise each other to not tell Gohan and Videl who it was that saved them all; Gohan and Videl chase the boys to get answers from them. In the last panel, Shenlon asks if this means that no one is going to ask him for a wish.
Paikuu-han -- A "Frog". A good-guy fighter created for the TV series to kill time. Ignorable.
Saiku Oni -- Probably means "Psychedelic", or "work". A teenaged red-skinned demon boy who tends the Spritz Cleaner. Wears a skull jacket, striped pants, and a walkman.
Janenba -- Probably means "a place of evil." At first, this is a big yellow goofball that hurts stuff for fun. After its transformation, it becomes a human-sized Lucifer-type Master of Hell. Uses magic, and a magical sword. Created when Psych was dowsed with concentrated evil. After Gogita defeats it, Psych recovers, and runs away to disappear from sight forever.
Dragon Ball Z Movie #13
Dragon Fist Explosion!!! If Gokuu Can't do it, Who Else Can?
Toei Anime Fair, July 15, 1995
A long time ago, a group of evil magicians brought a huge, skull-faced demon -- Hirudegarn -- to life to terrorize their planet. The demon could only be controlled by two gourd whistles and a legendary sword. Tapeon and his little brother, Minosha, had used the gourd whistles to play a song that calmed Hirudegarn long enough for the demon to be cut in two, and trapped within the bodies of the two brothers. Tapeon was sealed in a music box and shot out into space.... It's a busy day in Satan City for the crimefighting team Great Saiya-man (Gohan is Saiya-man 1, and Videl is Saiya-man 2) when they get a call that a crazy old man is trying to commit suicide by jumping from a tower. The old man, Hoi, is rescued, and he shows Gohan a box that can't be opened. The boy tries to turn the crank, but can't. The box is given to Bulma, but her science toys can't see inside it. So, the Z Fighters round up the Dragon Balls and ask Shenlon to make the box open. This happens, and Tapeon steps out. Minosha, who used to look just like young Trunks, was killed long ago, and his half of the demon starts stalking Satan city and trashes it. Tapeon escapes to a deserted factory plant, and is followed by Trunks (Trunks keeps bringing food to Tapeon, but Tapeon keeps chasing him away.) When Tapeon falls asleep, his half of the demon tries to escape from his body, but is then recaptured when Tapeon wakes up again. Eventually, Tapeon is befriended, and he explains everything to Buruma. Buruma tries to make a demon-capturing bedroom, but Hoi is using his own magic to awaken Hirudedarn. Tapeon's half of the demon escapes Buruma's trap and becomes whole again. The Z Fighters help trash the city in their attempt to defeat the demon, and Goten and Trunks use Fusion to become Gotenks (but, Gotenks' energy attacks cause the demon to go into a cocoon phase before emerging as a giant WINGED demon.) The Z Fighters get mulched, Tapeon tries to use his whistle, but it shatters. Trunks tries to use Tapeon's sword on the demon, but Gokuu switches to Super Saiya-jin 3, and announces that Hirudegarn is HIS to defeat. Gokuu pulls out a Super Punch (Ryuuken) and destroys the demon. Afterwards, Bulma makes a time machine to return Tapeon to the time when the boy had been shot into space, and Tapeon gives the sword to Trunks (thereby explaining how future Trunks came by the sword that had been used to carve up Freeza and Freeza's Father in the manga.)
Tapeon -- A teenaged elf with a bright red mohawk and a gold band connected to the back of his head. Carries a sword and a gourd whistle. Has one half of a demon trapped within his own body.
Minosha -- A smaller elf with an orange mohawk. He looked like Trunks. Carried a sword and a gourd whistle. Killed in a flashback at the beginning of the movie.
Hoi -- An evil little magic user that wants the energy gained from the demon when it destroys stuff. Pointed ears, red skin, long bushy white hair, and catfish stickers on his cheeks. Stepped on by Hirudegarn.
Hirudegarn -- 1000 year old, VERY tall, fire-breathing skull-face
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