| Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly | |
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 Japanese box art | |
| Directed by | Yoshihiro Ueda |
| Screenplay by | Takao Koyama |
| Based on | Dragon Ball byAkira Toriyama |
| Starring | SeeVoice cast |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 46 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥1.9 billion(Japan)[1] |
Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly[a] is a 1994 Japaneseanimatedscience fictionmartial arts film and the eleventhDragon Ball Z feature film. It was released inJapan on July 9 at the Toei Anime Fair alongsideDr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Excited Heart of Summer Vacation and the secondSlam Dunk film. It is the thirdDragon Ball Z film to feature the character ofBroly, albeit as a genetic clone. It was preceded byDragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming and followed byDragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn.
In a laboratory,humanoids emerge from tanks after having been created by the scientist Dr. Collie whose employer, Mr. Jaguar, plans to use these humanoids to expose the "world's greatest fraud", and laughs madly as a muscular, nude man with a tail lays dormant in another tank.
Android 18 harassesMr. Satan as he has yet to pay her for purposely losing to him in the World Martial Arts Tournament final whileKrillin,Trunks,Goten andMarron wait outside. A businessman named Men-Men arrives and speaks with Mr. Satan, telling him that Mr. Jaguar, who was Mr. Satan's rival at summer camp, has requested his presence on his island laboratory to have him fight his special fighters, and threatens to expose Mr. Satan as abed wetter if he refuses. Mr. Satan reluctantly accepts with Android 18 accompanying them to make sure Mr. Satan keeps good on his promise for payment. Trunks and Goten stow away, hoping to find a challenging fight.
On the island, a tournament is organized to pit Jaguar's bio-warriors against Mr. Satan. Android 18, Goten and Trunks ask to take part by posing as his pupils. Goten and Trunks easily defeat the bio-warriors and they observe the excommunicatedshaman from the village they encountered during theirfight withBroly. Trunks and Goten explore the lab and find a tank which appears to house Broly who is supposed to be dead. They confront the shaman who tells them that after Broly was killed, he found a sample of the Legendary Super Saiyan's blood and took it to Jaguar, who used it to have aclone created. Goten and Trunks attempt to destroy the clone but he breaks out of the tank and attacks them. The ensuing struggle causes a major leak of a dangerous bio-fluid that instantly devours matter. The Broly clone is drenched in the bio-fluid and deformed and weakened, but is not killed. Jaguar orders Bio-Broly to kill Mr. Satan but Android 18 saves him and is subsequently defeated. Goten and Trunks battle Bio-Broly while the bio-fluid kills all of the bio-warriors, scientists, and the shaman.
Bio-Broly pummels Goten, Trunks, and Android 18.Krillin saves Android 18 but is also defeated. Trunks lures Bio-Broly beneath a bio-fluid tank and destroys it, showering Bio-Broly in more of the fluid, apparently causing him to dissolve although in reality, Bio-Broly has actually merged with the fluid and briefly re-emerged from the fluid as a giant head before disappearing again. They attempt to evacuate the island but Dr. Collie tells them that the bio-fluid will continue to spread until it covers the entire Earth. However, they discover that the fluid turns to stone upon contact with seawater, so Goten, Trunks and Krillin each fire aKamehameha wave at the base of the island, causing a massive wave of seawater to flood the island and turn the fluid to stone. A gigantic Bio-Broly suddenly emerges from the sea but before he is able to attack, he too becomes solidified. Goten, Trunks, and Krillin blast him with a combined Kamehameha wave which destroys him for good.
In theOther World,Goku receives orders fromKing Kai to help Pikkon stop Broly, who has been allowed to keep his physical body and is rampaging inHell.
| Character name | Voice actor | |
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| Japanese | English[2] | |
| Funimation (2005) | ||
| Goten | Masako Nozawa | Kara Edwards |
| Trunks | Takeshi Kusao | Laura Bailey |
| Bio-Broly | Bin Shimada | Vic Mignogna |
| Goku | Masako Nozawa | Sean Schemmel |
| Mr. Satan | Daisuke Gōri | Hercule(edited version) |
| Chris Rager | ||
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Krillin |
| Sonny Strait | ||
| Android 18 | Miki Itō | Meredith McCoy |
| Jagā Batta (ジャガー・バッタ) | Naoki Tatsuta | Lord Jaguar |
| Bill Townsley | ||
| Men-Men (メンメン,Menmen) | Keiji Fujiwara | Jim Foronda |
| Dr. Collie (コリー博士,Korī hakase) | Masaharu Satō | Christopher Sabat |
| Shaman | Chafūrin | Maloja |
| Robert McCollum | ||
| Nain (ナイン) | Tomiko Suzuki | Nan |
| Caitlin Glass | ||
| Marron | Meredith McCoy | |
| Scientists | Hisao Egawa Tomohisa Asō [ja] Yoshiyuki Kōno | Robert McCollum Eric Vale |
| Bio-Warriors (バイオ戦士,Baio Senshi) | N/a | Andrew Rye Robert Colin Eric Vale Michael Terry |
| Beast Mut | Jeremy Inman[note 1] | |
| Bubbles | Naoki Tatsuta | Christopher Sabat |
| Narrator | Jōji Yanami | Kyle Hebert |
Two more English dubs from Speedy Video and Solar Entertainment feature an unknown voice cast.
"Dragon Power ∞" was released as a single on 8 mm CD on July 21, 1994 inJapan. It was coupled with the image song "Chīsa na Senshi~Goten to Trunks no Tēma~" performed by Susumu Ōya.
Another CD called~Sūpā Senshi Gekiha!! Katsu no wa Ore da~ Single +1 (～超戦士撃破！！勝つのはオレだ～Ｓｉｎｇｌｅ＋１,~Super Warrior Defeat!! I'll Be the Winner~ Single + 1) was released on 12 mm CD at the same time as the 8 mm CD. This 12 mm CD features a third track, "Kung Fu Taisō" (カンフー体操), also performed by Kageyama.
The score for the English dub's composed by Mark Menza. The Triple Feature release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music byShunsuke Kikuchi, an opening theme of "We Gotta Power", and an ending theme of "Dragon Power ∞".
It was released onDVD in North America on September 13, 2005. It was later released in Triple Feature set along withBroly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993) andBroly – Second Coming (1994) forBlu-ray and DVD on March 31, 2009, both feature full1080p format inHDremastered16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced5.1 surround mix. The film was re-released to DVD in final remastered thinpak collection on January 3, 2012, containing the last 4Dragon Ball Z films.
A second English dub produced and released exclusively inMalaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast.
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