Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods American Theater Release Official Trailer!

Having grown up in the 90s and 00s, Dragon Ball Z is a huge part of my childhood and anime personal history. It wasn’t just my first shonen. It wasn’t just my first anime. It was the first cartoon I ever saw where people yelled a lot and punched each other, and thus is a key factor in why I write these posts in the first place. For good or for ill.

And the dub of DBZ is the original DBZ in my personal history. When that loud, lasery bullshit came on in front of a 6 year old me, I didn’t even know that Japanese was a language. So while hearing Masako Nozawa doing a Kamehama cry is fine, hearing Sean Schemmel do it while localizers try to convince me that this shit is going to be the most epic thing excites my inner child like you just told it everything is caramel now.

So yes. Funi is bringing us Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods officially dubbed and running in theaters from August 5th to 9th. You can follow all the  information, including a live countdown clock, on the official BotG website here. You can already see a few little changes, like Bills now being Beerus, but that sounds more alien and more like the beer to Whis’s whiskey, so whatever. I want to know who’ll play him because Beerus was a pretty nice villain in that he wanted to do what he wanted to do. He just happened to also be the being of ultimate destruction in the universe, so planets would blow up when he didn’t get to do that.

As you can tell, I’ve seen the movie before. It’s largely fine. It was back when we weren’t sure it would be brought over. That’s why it’s funny but not surprising to me that the trailer is so “AWESOME ACTION MOVIE GO SCREAMY LASERS YEAH!” Because that’s how we were sold DBZ back in the day. For the kids in the audience, just listen to this for a while and you’ll understand. That’s the kind of music that invokes the totally sweet super fights you’d see in a movie that BotG’s absolutely is not. It’s a comedy. It’s so Dragon Ball I’m surprised there weren’t any cartoony penises and balls in there somewhere. That’s not a bad thing for the movie. Beerus not taking things seriously is what made him so cool. I’m not worried about that tone being lost. The people who work on DBZ know how goofy it is. The trailer is just kinda funny in how… “AW HELL YAH” the tone is. Then again, maybe that’s a joke too.

The dub is being worked on now

Attack on Titan Official Stream by Funimation and Crunchyroll

Good news for everyone who finds this place searching for “attack on titan episode 1.” If you’re the type who likes their anime from legit vendors, both Funimation and Crunchyroll have picked up the series for their online streaming services. If you’re interested in the show, and I can’t stress hard enough that you should be, and have access to either of those, go check it out.

This makes me pretty excited if only because MTAC managed to get the rights to show the whole Crunchy and Funi anime library in the viewing rooms. If that happens again, I look forward to the awesome reactions of young con goes when this show pops us. “Attack on Titan? Sounds a little shonen, probably about space with lase- Oh, God! That woman exploded!” Good times.