Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!
Japanese box art
Directed by	Daisuke Nishio
Written by	Takao Koyama
Screenplay by	Takao Koyama
Produced by	Chiaki Imada Tomio Anzai
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Toshiharu Takei
Edited by	Shin'ichi Fukumitsu
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release dates	July 11, 1992 (1992-07-11) (Japan)
Running time	46 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥2.55 billion (Japan)

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13, known in Japan as Extreme Battle! The Three Great Super Saiyans (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 極限バトル!!三大超サイヤ人, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto Kyokugen Batoru!! San Dai Sūpā Saiyajin), is a 1992 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the seventh Dragon Ball Z movie. It was originally released in Japan on July 11 at the Toei Anime Fair along with the third Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken movie and the Rokudenashi Blues movie. Early concept art for the reissue used the title Android Assault, but the final product went back to using Funimation's original title for the film.

Plot

The film opens with the introduction showing the death of Dr. Gero at the hands of the Androids 17 and 18 including the Red Ribbon Army, but also reveals that Gero previously copied his consciousness into an underground supercomputer, working on an alternate ultimate android.

Cutting to the present day, Goku is shopping with Gohan and Chi-Chi, while Krillin, Master Roshi, Oolong and Future Trunks wait for a beauty pageant. As Goku, Chi-Chi, Gohan and the gang eat in the restaurant on the shopping centre's top floor, two humanoid beings enter the city and begin causing mayhem. Oblivious to their surroundings, they head straight for the restaurant and attack Goku. Goku briefly fights them and realises that they are androids, since he cannot sense their energy. The humanoids introduce themselves as Androids 14 and 15 as Gohan, Krillin and Trunks join the fray. Goku requests that they take the battle elsewhere in order to avoid harming innocent people, and the androids accept, flying to an Arctic area.

Goku and Trunks take on the androids and manage to hold their own until an android wearing the Red Ribbon Army insignia appears. This android introduces himself as Android 13, and explains that Dr. Gero may be gone, but previously programmed his supercomputer to think that it is Gero himself to continue Gero's dream to killing Goku in revenge for defeating the Red Ribbon Army. Vegeta and Piccolo also show up to aid their friends. Goku, Vegeta and Trunks power up to their Super Saiyan forms. While Android 13 manages to hold the upper hand against both Goku and Piccolo, Trunks and Vegeta destroy Androids 14 and 15, and surround 13, ready to take him on at once. Irate, 13 proceeds to absorb 14 and 15's main cores into his own being and undergoes a hideous transformation into Super Android 13. With his new form, nobody is able to match 13, and he pummels Goku and the others about.

Seeing no other choice, Goku begins summoning energy for the Spirit Bomb while Piccolo and the others stall 13. 13 eventually gets wind of this and tries to stop Goku, but Piccolo holds him off just long enough for Goku to go Super Saiyan again and merge with the Spirit Bomb. 13 attacks, but Goku effortlessly punches through 13's stomach and sends him into the core of the Spirit Bomb, where he is obliterated. With 13's demise, the underground supercomputer shuts down for good.

Following 13's death, Krillin and Gohan are sent to the hospital. There everyone jokes about Krillin's attempt to help and Gohan's summer school (which Chi-Chi had previously been stressed about at the beginning of the film). Elsewhere, Piccolo and Vegeta sit back to back on an iceberg, isolated from the celebration.

Cast

Character name	Japanese voice actor	English voice actor (AB Groupe, c. 2003)	English voice actor (Funimation, 2003)
Goku	Masako Nozawa	David Gasman	Sean Schemmel
Gohan		Jodi Forrest	Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Paul Bandey as Big Green	Christopher Sabat
Krillin	Mayumi Tanaka	Sharon Mann as Clearin	Sonny Strait
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Doug Rand	Eric Vale
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Ed Marcus as Vejita	Christopher R. Sabat
Master Roshi	Kōhei Miyauchi	Ed Marcus as Genius Turtle	Mike McFarland
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Sharon Mann	Cynthia Cranz
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	David Gasman	Bradford Jackson
Android #13 (人造人間13号, Jinzōningen jūsan-go)	Kazuyuki Sogabe	Doug Rand	Charles Cody Huber
Android #14 (人造人間14号, Jinzōningen jūshi-go)	Hisao Egawa	Ed Marcus	Christopher Rager
Android #15 (人造人間15号, Jinzōningen jūgo-go)	Toshio Kobayashi	Paul Bandey	James Joshua Martin
Dr. Gero	Kōji Yada	Ed Marcus	Kent Williams
Narrator	Jōji Yanami		Kyle Hebert

A third English dub produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video, features an unknown voice cast.

Music

• OP (Opening Theme):
  • "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA"
    • Lyrics by Yukinojō Mori
    • Music by Chiho Kiyooka
    • Arranged by Kenji Yamamoto
    • Performed by Hironobu Kageyama
• ED (Ending Theme):
  • Giri Giri Sekai Kyokugen (GIRI GIRI－世界極限－^?, "At the Brink: The Earth's Limit")
    • Lyrics by Dai Satō
    • Music by Chiho Kiyooka
    • Arranged by Kenji Yamamoto
    • Performed by Hironobu Kageyama & Yuka

English dub soundtrack

The score for the English-language version was composed by Mark Menza. However, the remastered release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dialogue and Japanese background music.

Releases

It was released on DVD and VHS in North America on February 4, 2003. It was later digitally remastered and released in a Double Feature set with Bojack Unbound on Blu-ray and DVD on February 10, 2009. The film was released to DVD again on December 6, 2011 in a remastered box set containing the second four Dragon Ball Z movies.

External links

• Official anime website of Toei Animation
• Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! at the Internet Movie Database
• Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia