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A Super Namekian named Lord Slug comes to invade Earth and only Goku can stop him .A Super Namekian named Lord Slug comes to invade Earth and only Goku can stop him .A Super Namekian named Lord Slug comes to invade Earth and only Goku can stop him .
Masako Nozawa
- Son Gokû
- (voice)
- …
Toshio Furukawa
- Piccolo
- (voice)
Mayumi Tanaka
- Kuririn
- (voice)
- …
Hiromi Tsuru
- Bulma
- (voice)
Naoko Watanabe
- Chichi
- (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
- Oolong
- (voice)
- …
Kôhei Miyauchi
- Kame-sen'nin
- (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
- Old Slug
- (voice)
- …
Jôji Yanami
- Kaiô-sama
- (voice)
- …
Keiichi Nanba
- Angira
- (voice)
Shôzô Îzuka
- Kakûja
- (voice)
Kôji Totani
- Commander Zeeun
- (voice)
Daisuke Gôri
- Dorodabo
- (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
- Medamatcha
- (voice)
Shinobu Satouchi
- Soldier A
- (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
- Soldier B
- (voice)
Michio Nakao
- Soldier C
- (voice)
Yûsaku Yara
- Slug
- (voice)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Super Sayajin (called Super Sayian in the English version) transformation that Goku goes into is called a 'False Super Saiyan'.
- Alternate versionsThe edited FUNimation version cuts out some blood and violence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dragon Ball Z: Summer Vacation Special (1992)
- SoundtracksCha-La-Head-Cha-La
Lyrics by Yukinojô Mori
Music by Chiho Kiyooka
Arranged by Kenji Yamamoto
Performed by Hironobu Kageyama
(Columbia Records)
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"Lord Slug" is a very middle of the road DBZ movie. This one doesn't hold the same nostalgia for me that the first three movies do. Those were all aired on Toonami and that is where I watched and recorded them. This one I didn't get around to watching until much later.
On the plus side, where most DBZ movies are just rehashes of DBZ storylines, this one is a rehash of an original DB storyline. Lord Slug makes the same wish as King Piccolo did back in the original Dragon Ball.
On the positive side, the villain is able to transform and give us a new varied fight set up. The villain has a unique weakness to be exploited.
Other than that, all the other positives are mainly just beats that happen in a lot of DBZ movies. Piccolo and Goku teaming up, a spirit bomb, Gohan and other Z fighters helping at first but then being useless towards the end. All stuff that we have seen in the other DBZ movies.
On its own, the movie is pretty good. But because it falls in the middle of a film/anime franchise that does so much of the same thing, this one comes across as just that, middling.
On the plus side, where most DBZ movies are just rehashes of DBZ storylines, this one is a rehash of an original DB storyline. Lord Slug makes the same wish as King Piccolo did back in the original Dragon Ball.
On the positive side, the villain is able to transform and give us a new varied fight set up. The villain has a unique weakness to be exploited.
Other than that, all the other positives are mainly just beats that happen in a lot of DBZ movies. Piccolo and Goku teaming up, a spirit bomb, Gohan and other Z fighters helping at first but then being useless towards the end. All stuff that we have seen in the other DBZ movies.
On its own, the movie is pretty good. But because it falls in the middle of a film/anime franchise that does so much of the same thing, this one comes across as just that, middling.
- JayWolfgramm
- Mar 15, 2023
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- Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Son Goku
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By what name was Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (1991) officially released in India in English?
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