Newer fans of Dragon ball The franchise is very much indebted to the live-action Hollywood film adaptation titled Dragon Ball Evolution. Series creator Akira Toriyama drew the original Dragon Ball series from 1984 to 1995, with an anime adaptation of the entire series under two titles, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. While he helped design one Due to the number of characters in the series, Dragon Ball GT is not based on Toriyama’s manga, and is pretty much the last Dragon Ball series the world has ever seen. But fortunately, Dragonball Evolution happened.
After years of development, Dragonball Evolution was released worldwide in 2009. It was Hollywood’s first big-budget ($30 million) live-action animated film with a huge fan following. heat up to millions of people. While many fans were ecstatic to see the beloved series get the massive attention it deserved, their hopes were dashed when it was released. To this day, Dragonball Evolution is known as one of the worst comic book adaptations, and it was so poorly received that it positively influenced the development of many animated movie adaptations. real people.
Without Dragonball Evolution, Dragon Ball would end with GT
Years later, the screenwriter of Dragonball Evolution publicly apologized for the film’s script. Toriyama even made some comments about the film, saying in an interview with Asahi Shimbun Digital that “…the script has too little information about the world and its characteristics…” However, due to the series The film’s poor handling of the beloved franchise, next time Toriyama is approached about creating something new with Dragon Ball, he’s eager to play a more pivotal role in ensuring that it deserves the name of the franchise.
In 2013 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods was released worldwide. It expanded the series to a cosmic scale by introducing the God of Destruction, Beerus, and his angelic companion, Whis. Although Beerus serves as the main antagonist of the film, from whom Goku will have to save the Earth, Whis is even stronger and can take down Beerus with a single blow. The new chapter of Dragon Ball also introduces a new level of divine power for Goku and Vegeta to achieve. New characters and lore has proven to be the beginning of what will develop in the Dragon Ball Super series.
Dragon Ball Super exists because evolution is so bad
Asahi Shimbun Digital’s interview with Toriyama revealed more details about how he got access to a storyline from Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and how he changed it. Due to the failure in Dragon Ball Evolution, he wanted to contribute as much information as possible to the new DB project. However, he and the anime’s scriptwriter weren’t prepared for the creative explosion that Toriyama’s brain would bring when he inadvertently rewrote much of the film, including the lyrics. its phone. In the interview, he said, “Instead of telling them about this or that point, I thought it would be quicker if I wrote it down specifically, and while I was just going to give them a model, my hand wouldn’t stop, and in the end, I wrote almost everything.” After Battle of Gods became a worldwide success, the DB franchise was revived to its former glory and Dragon Ball Super helped make it bigger than ever.
Thanks to Dragonball Evolution, Dragon Ball Super was finally created. While veteran fans of the series have some complaints about the newer series compared to Dragon Ball and DBZ, it’s hard to ignore the many positives that DBS has brought to the long-running series. . Stunning animations in the latest movies and series finale have inspired new generations of Dragon ball fan. Final Moments of Tournament of Power, Super Instinct, and the fantastic movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero wouldn’t have existed if Dragon Ball Evolution did not inspire Toriyama to actively work to prevent something similar from being created again.
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