
#Gogo anime dragon ball z series
Live-action film (2009) Ī single live-action adaptation of the series was released in 2009, Dragonball Evolution. By 1996, the first sixteen anime films up until Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995) had sold 50 million tickets and grossed over ¥40 billion ( $501 million) at the Japanese box office, making it the highest-grossing anime film series up until then, in addition to selling over 500,000 home video units in Japan. The first through fifth films were shown at the Toei Manga Festival ( 東映まんがまつり, Tōei Manga Matsuri), while the sixth through seventeenth films were shown at the Toei Anime Fair ( 東映アニメフェア, Toei Anime Fea). These were generally screened back to back with other Toei films for that season as special theatrical events in Japan.
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These films were mostly alternate retellings of certain story arcs involving new characters or extra side-stories that do not correlate with the same continuity as the manga or TV series. These films have a running time below feature length (around 45–60 minutes each) except for the 1996 film, at 80 minutes. Seventeen films were produced in this period-three Dragon Ball films from 1986 to 1988, thirteen Dragon Ball Z films from 1989 to 1995, and finally a tenth anniversary film that was released in 1996 and adapted the Red Ribbon arc of the original series.

Background Original run (1986–1996) Theatrical event circuit films (1986-96) 1986ĭuring the franchise's original broadcast run (1986-1997), Toei produced Dragon Ball films rapidly, often two a year to match the Japanese spring and summer vacations.
