A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin. It also retells the Red Ribbon Army story; but this time they find Goku rather than Goku finding them.
Direction
Yamauchi compresses 23 episodes into 80 minutes without whiplash.
Score
Shunsuke Kikuchi bangers that hit harder than ever.
Director
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Masako Nozawa
Son Goku (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru
Bulma (voice)
Toru Furuya
Yamcha (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Oolong (voice)
Naoko Watanabe
Puar (voice)
Kin'ya Aikawa
Master Roshi (voice)
Daisuke Gori
Umigame (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Commander Red/Shenlong (voice)
Masaharu Sato
Staff Officer Black (voice)
Bin Shimada
General Blue (voice)
Hirohiko Kakegawa
General White (voice)
Kazuko Sugiyama
Colonel Violet (voice)
Hisao Egawa
Sergeant Metallic (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Android 8 (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the final Dragon Ball production with Kikuchi's original score before GT's switch to modern themes.
Released for the franchise's 10th anniversary, it deliberately echoes the 1986 'Curse of the Blood Rubies' but with Z-era animation muscle.
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