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Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming

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Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming
Japanese box art
Directed byShigeyasu Yamauchi
Screenplay byTakao Koyama
Based onDragon Ball
by Akira Toriyama
Produced byTsutomu Tomari
Tomio Anzai
Starring
Narrated byJōji Yanami
CinematographyYumiko Kajiwara
Edited byShinichi Fukumitsu
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Animation by
  • Tadayoshi Yamamuro
  • Naoki Tate
  • Satoru Iriyoshi
  • Mamoru Hosoda
  • Akira Inagami
Production
company
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • March 12, 1994 (1994-03-12)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥2.47 billion ($24.2 million)

Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming[a] is a 1994 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the tenth Dragon Ball Z feature film. It was released in Japan on March 12 at the Toei Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo!! Follow the Rescued Shark... and the first Slam Dunk film. It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound and followed by Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly.

Plot

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Following his defeat by Goku, Broly emerges from a space pod that crashed on Earth after he escaped the comet that destroyed New Vegeta. He slips into unconsciousness as he repeats the Goku's original name "Kakarot" returning his Base form and is frozen within the crater.

Seven years later, Goten, Trunks, and Videl search for the magical Dragon Balls and encounter a village being terrorized by a supposed monster and a dubious shaman who demands human sacrifice to appease it. They devise a plan to rescue the village by baiting the monster but when Goten inadvertently causes an obstruction, Videl slaps him and he begins to cry. The monster, revealed to be a dinosaur, is drawn out and killed by Goten and Trunks. With the village now safe and the shaman exiled, the group departs to continue their Dragon Ball hunt. Unbeknownst to them, Goten's cries awaken Broly. As night falls the group rests after collecting six of the seven Dragon Balls when a loud eruption occurs and Videl takes off to investigate. She soon encounters Broly in Super Saiyan form regular and fights him but he effortlessly dispatches her and she is left unconscious when Goten and Trunks arrive. They battle Broly but they are no match for the brute and they flee in fear. Gohan saves them as they attempt to gather the Dragon Balls to wish Broly away. Gohan is no match for Broly who directs a lethal sphere of energy towards Videl, Trunks and Goten. In distress, Gohan races towards them and attempts to deflect it and manages to shield them from the blast but the ensuing explosion renders them all unconscious.

Gohan assumes his Super Saiyan 2 form in an effort to defeat Broly who transforms into his Legendary Super Saiyan form. Gohan successfully lures Broly into a pit of lava which consumes him and Gohan passes out from exhaustion before being rescued by Krillin. Moments later, Broly re-emerges and attacks Gohan after incapacitating Krillin. Gohan is powerless as he is crushed by Broly's bear hug until Videl arrives and unsuccessfully attempts to intervene. Heartened by Videl's effort, Gohan frees himself from Broly's grip and fires a Kamehameha wave at Broly. The Legendary Super Saiyan hurls a gigantic sphere of energy at Gohan which collides with the Kamehameha. Goten joins his brother in the energy struggle but Broly's sphere absorbs their waves and pushes further towards them. Goten wishes their father was there to help them and miraculously the Dragon Balls grant his desperate wish as the sky darkens and Goku appears much to their surprise and Broly's confusion. Goku joins his sons and fires a Kamehameha wave, however their combined effort remains futile as Broly continues to resist until he is distracted by Trunks who fires a blast at him. The family of Super Saiyans unleash a final push propelling the Father-Sons Kamehameha wave which directly pushes Broly into space and he dies when he collides with the sun. Gohan and Goten question if their father was ever there at all and are soon joined by Trunks, Krillin and Videl as they celebrate their victory.

Cast

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Character name Voice actor
Japanese English
Funimation
(2005)
Broly Bin Shimada Vic Mignogna
Gohan Masako Nozawa Kyle Hebert
Goten Kara Edwards
Goku/Kakarot Sean Schemmel
Stephanie Nadolny (baby)
Trunks Takeshi Kusao Laura Bailey
Videl Yūko Minaguchi Kara Edwards
Kuririn Mayumi Tanaka Krillin
Sonny Strait
Coco (ココ, Koko) Junko Shimakata Monica Rial
Shaman (祈祷師, Kitōshi) Chafurin Maloja
Robert McCollum
Natadae Village Elder (ナタデ村の長老, Natade-Mura no Chōrō) Hitoshi Takagi Zalador
Grant James
Villagers Hisao Egawa
Asuka Kimura
Yoshiyuki Kōno		 Adrian Cook
Sean Michael Teague
Michael Terry
Jeremy Inman
Travis Willingham
Narrator Jōji Yanami Kyle Hebert

Music

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The song "We Gotta Power" was used as the film's opening theme.

Kiseki no Big Fight

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"Kiseki no Big Fight"
Single by Hironobu Kageyama
ReleasedMay 1, 1994 (1994-05-01)
GenreElectronic rock
Length7:36
LabelForte Music Entertainment JP
Songwriter(s)Yukinojo Mori

Kiseki no Big Fight (奇蹟のビッグ・ファイト, Kiseki no Biggu Faito) is the closing theme song of the film. It is a single by Japanese singer Hironobu Kageyama. It was released on 8 cm cd on March 21, 1994 in Japan only. It is coupled with an image song "Dragon Ball no Densetsu" performed by Shin Oya. The single charted at 89 on Oricon.[1]

Track list:

  1. 奇蹟のビッグ・ファイト
    Kiseki no Biggu Faito/The Miraculous Big Fight
  2. ドラゴンボールの伝説
    Doragon Bōru no Densetsu/Legend of the Dragon Balls

English dub soundtrack

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The following songs were present in the Funimation dub of Broly: Second Coming.[2] The remaining music featured in the background was composed by Nathan Johnson, but I.O.N made exclusive songs for the film:

  • I.O.N. - Set Me Free
  • I.O.N. - Ignored
  • I.O.N. - Why
  • I.O.N. - Deeper
  • I.O.N. - Unaccepted

The score for the English dub's composed by Nathan Johnson. The Triple Feature release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi, an opening theme of "We Gotta Power", and an ending theme of "Kiseki no Big Fight".

Box office

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At the Japanese box office, the film sold 3.7 million tickets[3] and grossed ¥2.47 billion[4] ($24.2 million).[5]

Releases

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It was released on DVD and VHS in North America on April 5, 2005. Plus, it was released it in a bundle along with Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993) for Blu-ray on November 13, 2007, both feature full 1080p format in HD remastered 16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced 5.1 surround mix. It was later remastered and released in Triple Feature set with 2 Broly films and Bio-Broly (1994) for Blu-ray and DVD on March 31, 2009. The film was re-released to DVD in final remastered thinpak collection on January 3, 2012, containing the last 4 Dragon Ball Z films.

Other companies

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A second English version, produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video, features an unknown cast.

A third English dub, which was produced and released by Solar Entertainment in the Philippines in 1998, also features an unknown cast. This version was packaged with the next film as a single film titled Dragon Ball Z: The Movie, and was released on VHS by Solar, and on VCD by Warner Home Video Philippines. It was also re-released on VHS in the Philippines by Magnavision, which also distributed The Greatest Rivals, a combined edit of the fifth and sixth Dragon Ball Z films. Despite having been produced in the Philippines, this version may not likely have involved Creative Products Corporation nor any of its affiliated actors who had dubbed The Greatest Rivals and the first 26 episodes of the series for the Philippine English dub, and later the next 50 episodes for the Taglish dub, and the rest of the series in Tagalog.

Reception

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Notes

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  1. ^ Known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Two Dangerous People! Super Warriors Can’t Sleep (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 危険なふたり!超戦士はねむれない, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto Kiken na Futari! Sūpā Senshi wa Nemurenai) or by Toei's own English title Dragon Ball Z: Dangerous Rivals

References

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  1. ^ ""Kiseki no Big Fight" @ Oricon". Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  2. ^ The Official Dragon Ball Z Website Archived September 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "予約特典・ドラゴンボール最強への道・劇場版ご近所物語A5サイズ前売特典冊子". Dragon Ball: The Path to Power brochure (in Japanese). Toei Animation. 1996. Archived from the original on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  4. ^ Komatsu, Mikikazu (January 29, 2019). "Japan Box Office: Dragon Ball Super: Broly Becomes Top-Grossing Film in The Franchise". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on January 29, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  5. ^ "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) - Japan". World Bank. 1994. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
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