Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

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Dragon Ball Z Movie 7: Super Android 13
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Japanese box art
Directed by Daisuke Nishio
Produced by Chiaki Imada
Rikizô Kayano
Written by Story:
Akira Toriyama
Screenplay:
Takao Koyama
Starring Masako Nozawa
Takeshi Kusao
Ryo Horikawa
Toshio Furukawa
Mayumi Tanaka
Naoki Tatsuta
Kohei Myauchi
Naoko Watanabe
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Hisao Egawa
Toshio Kobayashi
Kōji Yada
Joji Yanami
Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
Release date(s) July 11, 1992
Running time 46:00
Language Japanese
English
Preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Return of Cooler
Followed by Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Kyokugen Battle!! San Dai Super Saiyajin (ドラゴンボールZ 極限バトル!!三大超サイヤ人 Doragon Bōru Zetto Kyokugen Batoru!! San Dai Sūpā Saiyajin?, lit. "Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Battle!! The Three Great Super Saiyans"), is the seventh Dragon Ball Z movie. Originally released in Japan on July 11th 1992 between episodes 147 and 148.

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[edit] Plot

The film opens with the introduction showing the death of Dr. Gero at the hands of the Androids 17 and 18, and also revealing that Gero is still around in the form of an underground computer, still working on three new Androids.

The real film now opens with the completion of Androids 14 and 15, who attack Goku while he is shopping with Chi-Chi and Gohan. Not wanting to destroy the city they're in, Goku and Future Trunks leave for an uninhabited Arctic area. The fight seems even until Android 13 shows up - at least until Vegeta and Piccolo arrive. At that point of time, both Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks ascend to their Super Saiyan forms and 14 and 15 are destroyed by Trunks and Vegeta, respectively. Just when the fight seems won, 13 shows off his "Super" form by absorbing two components of the two fallen Androids, transforming into a blue behemoth and vastly increasing his power, changing the battle's outcome yet again. But then Goku prepares his Spirit Bomb, and, after transforming into a Super Saiyan, he absorbs its energy into his body (his heart is not pure as a Super Saiyan which it must be in order to create the spirit bomb) and destroys the Android menace. As 13, 14, and 15 are ultimately destroyed, Dr. Gero's computer shuts down for good, while still shouting the words "Goku must die!".

At the end of the english dub, the film closes with a comic relief. Goku and his friends are healing in the hospital, but Piccolo and Vegeta, in isolation, are sitting back-to-back on a small chunk of ice in the sea. Their dialogue is:

Piccolo: Is it over?
Vegeta: Not till the fish jumps.
[A fish jumps out of the water]
Vegeta: It's over.

In the original Japanese version, this scene has no dialogue.

[edit] Notes

In the FUNImation dub of the movie, during the scenes at the shopping mall and the restaurant early on, the song Pachelbel's Canon can be heard in the background.

[edit] Music

  • ED (Ending Theme)
    1. "GIRI GIRI Sekai Kyokugen"
      • Lyrics: , Music: , Arrangement: , Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama' & Yuka

[edit] Cast list

Character Name Voice Actor (Japanese) Voice Actor (English)
Son Goku Masako Nozawa Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan Masako Nozawa Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo Toshio Furukawa Christopher Sabat
Kuririn Mayumi Tanaka Sonny Strait
Future Trunks Takeshi Kusao Eric Vale
Vegeta Ryo Horikawa Christopher Sabat
Kame-Sen'nin Kôhei Miyauchi Mike McFarland
Chi-Chi Naoko Watanabe Cynthia Cranz
Oolong Naoki Tatsuta Bradford Jackson
Artificial Human #13 Kazuyuki Sogabe Chuck Huber
Artificial Human #14 Hisao Egawa Chris Rager
Artificial Human #15 Toshio Kobayashi Phillip Wilburn
Doctor Gero Kōji Yada Kent Williams
Narration Joji Yanami Kyle Hebert
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