Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Hits No. 1 in Japanese Theaters
The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie has earned the top box-office position in its opening weekend in Japanese theaters. Dragon Ball author and screenplay writer Akira Toriyama comments on its success.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero premiered on Saturday, June 11, 2022, in 407 screens. In its 2-day opening weekend it sold 500,000 tickets, earning 670 million yen (~4,986,547.36 USD), or about $5 million dollars. It beat Top Gun: Maverick for weekend attendance, despite its 3-day weekend.
This is the 21st Dragon Ball movie, and the first since 2018’s record-breaking Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
It is also the first movie to be animated entirely with computer generated imagery (CGI) rather than traditional hand-drawn animation, or hand-drawn combined with CGI.
Akira Toriyama said in a statement after seeing the movie:
“In a nutshell, it’s a great animated movie! … Piccolo is cool! So cool! Gamma No. 1 and No. 2 are cool! Even I, who am always calm about my work, suddenly felt that way for the first time ever. … It’s a complete success in every regard.”
In Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, those who inherited the will of the Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Son Goku, have created the strongest androids named Gamma No. 1 and No. 2, and attacked Piccolo and Son Gohan for a mysterious reason.
This time around, Goku and Vegeta are not the main characters!
The film will be released around the world this summer by Crunchyroll, in Japanese subtitles and localized dubs, with a potential release date of August 8.
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Read Akira Toriyama’s full translated comments on Super Hero.
Source: mantan-web, via Crunchyroll
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