The Legend: Dragon Ball Fan Film is Cool as Hell

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise is insanely common, thanks partially to Toonami and airing the anime adaptation of each Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z throughout the 90s. Fandoms are the lifeblood of IP, and Dragon Ball’s fandom has been beating fairly strongly extra lately, particularly with the brand new theatrical movie, Super Hero, hitting theaters in August. But if that’s not sufficient for right here, right here’s a fan movie that beats with the fandom coronary heart of a thousand suns and is, to be fairly blunt, fucking sick.

Created by Studio Stray Dog Animation and directed by Naseer Pasha, whose earlier work additionally contains the upcoming Ninja Turtles flick hitting Netflix subsequent month, Legend: A Dragon Ball Tale dropped on YouTube a number of days and has garnered quantity of consideration. The movie is brief, however easy: Vegeta (Jordan Woolen, who additionally voices Goku) goes to Earth to search out Goku, simply shortly after Broly (Jason Alexander Sukhram) exhibits up. At about ten minutes lengthy, Legend manages to seize the essence of the supply materials fairly properly, from Goku by no means understanding how he managed earn the wrath of Chi-Chi (Elsie Lovelock) to the spectacular combat scenes, and even the way in which Woolen says “Kakarot” could elicit a twinge of nostalgia. You can actually inform that it was made by followers of the property, in case Pasha’s message initially didn’t already tip you off.

“To every child who believed that they could train in 100 time the earth’s gravity, and to every artist who taped Dragon Ball Z and paused it to draw their favorite heroes, this is dedicated to you….Mr. Toriyama, please accept this as a small token of gratitude, and as a grand love letter to the worlds that you’ve created and shared with all us children of the 90s. The inspiration will forever remain immeasurable.

As revealed by Pasha in a video message following the credits, production on Legend took four years and was made by him and the rest of the staff did this “out of the sheer enthusiasm for Dragon Ball Z and the project itself.” He’s obtained a Patreon, if you wish to help his work going ahead, and he hopes that the subsequent venture he’s engaged on received’t take so lengthy to see the sunshine of day.

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