{"id":1656,"date":"2014-07-08T23:33:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2014-07-08T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T04:33:57","slug":"dbz-animated-movie-hitting-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2014\/07\/dbz-animated-movie-hitting-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"DBZ Animated Movie Hitting Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods<\/em>, came out in Japan March of 2013. This is the first movie in 17 years for the series and will now have a limited English dub release. It is set to premiere in 350 North American theaters from August 5-9. You can check out the FUNimation trailer below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sp60avoyT9k\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The plot seems pretty much on par with a DBZ movie &#8211; that is to say, &#8216;meh&#8217; &#8211; however, the animation looks very crisp. In addition to seeing a fair amount of 3D in the trailer, I am willing to bet this is the first movie in the franchise to be done digitally (versus the old school cel-shaded method).<\/p>\n<p>While I will go in with relatively low expectations, it will be nice to see some new material from the DBZ franchise. Also on the plus side, series creator Akira Toriyama was involved in the production &#8211; which will make me overlook the fact that some people call this movie in-canon (having\u00c2\u00a0taken place after the Buu saga but before DBGT).\u00c2\u00a0After all, I&#8217;ve said it before: the series ended after the Cell Saga&#8230; at least that is what I tell myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, came out in Japan March of 2013. This is the first movie in 17 years for the series and will now have a limited English dub release. It is set to premiere in 350 North American theaters from August 5-9. You can check out the FUNimation trailer below: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,34],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-akira-toriyama","tag-dbz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}