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For many “Dragon Ball” fans, the live action adaptation is the biggest shameful stain of the franchise-but it also had a positive benefit. We summarize.
Invelios of the franchise
When “Dragon Ball Evolution” was released in 2009, the fans of the anime and manga, but also spectators who had so far had nothing to do with “Dragon Ball”, agreed on one thing: the film is probably one of the worst ever.
No wonder that with a score of only 2.5 out of 10 points over ten years, this was the most unpopular entertainment product on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) – after all, some other works are now even worse.
But not only the fans, but also those responsible were extremely shocked. The former “Dragon Ball” editor Kazuhiko Torishima described the film as his “Biggest mistakes” And even creator Akira Toriyama denied the strip of any affiliation to his popular franchise.
Toriyama even tried to give advice and made changes to the script, but was ignored by the production team in Hollywood.
The producer would have charged the Veto law or general influence to the Shueisha publishing house with around five billion yen (then around 40 million euros) – more than half of the entire annual income.
New fire at Toriyama
Nevertheless, “Dragon Ball” fans of this disastrous live action adaptation can gain something positive, because she had sparked a new fire in Akira Toriyama, as he even revealed in the “Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary History Book”:
“I had already left” Dragon Ball “behind me, but when you see how much the live action film displaced me and how I revised the script for the anime film and complained about the quality of the TV anime, it has probably become a series at some point that I too much to let go.”
As a result, the story about “Dragon Ball Super” was created with the two films “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” (2013) and “Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F” (2015), who could reappear the fans.
