Starting with the original manga outing in 1984, the Dragon Ballon The series has been a must for Japanese anime culture for over 40 years. To properly honor the inheritance of the franchise, Always The director of the Aya Komaki series sought to create an anime that paid tribute to Dragon BallonHe went while presenting a new viewing experience for Akira Toriyama fans.
Komaki joined Fellow Always Director Yoshitaka and Dragon Ballon Executive director Akio Iyoku in a recent interview carried out for the official release of Japanese Blu-ray from the series. According to a translation of fans and a summary of the X user (formerly Twitter) Elugal (@venixys), Komaki was “entrusted” to the visual composition of Always Episode 1 Memorable opening sequence – A montage of emblematic scenes and characters of each previous episode. This opening opens the way to a story that deliberately mixes the humor and the charm of the first Dragon Ballon series with exciting action scenes and power transformations of Z And Great.
The new anime of Dragon Ball was aimed at creating an older television experience “ from zero ”
According to the director Yashima, “reconstructing the exact chronology” of Dragon BallonHistory was a difficult process. The sequence opens onto a black silhouette of Goku jumping in the frame, which is immediately followed by a manga style illustration of the first meeting of Bulma and Goku. Another key high point is the theater of Vegeta accelerating in space en route to earth – a scene which has been carefully resuscitated by Alwaysthe staff. The main objective “was not to reproduce the same scenes that had already disseminated, but – on the advice of the animator – to create them from zero, emotional work of Toriyama -sensei in his manga and his illustrations”. The staff also aimed to recreate “the screen effect” of the anime broadcast on television.
AlwaysThe story of its was also designed to bring the franchise back to its roots with traditional combat in hand -to -hand. The story of the anime begins when the news of the defeat of Majin Buu reaches Gomah, King Vice-Supreme of the kingdom of the demon. Terrified by Goku and his allies to have such strength, Gomah uses earth dragon bullets to transform them into what he supposes to be harmless children. He also takes the guardian of the earth hostage. Goku takes his unusual situation in stride, dusting his famous Nyoibo or Power Pole, to compensate for its decrease in stature. This layout allows Always To return transparently to the original Goku battle tactics, which rested much less on Saiyan high power techniques such as the Kamehameha wave.
AlwaysSubsequent episodes come back to the rapid fantastic combat style that modern viewers know more. In the final confrontation with King Gomah, the series surprised many fans by relying a super Saiyan form initially introduced in Dragon Ball GT. Although love nods to Dragon BallonThe past is an integral part of AlwaysKomaki’s structure stresses that they also wanted the series to be recognized as a whole new entry of the franchise. “By evoking the past, we wanted to show a new Alwaysa new Dragon Ballon“, they explained.” Without making it feel dated, but with this light washed -out quality which brings back memories of the past … These parts have been manipulated with meticulous care. “”
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