Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)

March 30, 2013 (JP) • Animation, Action, Science Fiction • 85m

Overview

After the defeat of Majin Buu, a powerful God of Destruction known as Beerus searches for the Saiyan warrior who defeated Frieza. Realizing the threat Beerus poses to Earth, the Z-fighters must stop him. Only Goku, humanity’s last hope, can ascend to the level of a legendary Super Saiyan God and save the planet, and possibly the entire universe!

Director

Masahiro Hosoda

Writer

Yusuke Watanabe

Top Billed

Masako Nozawa

Keywords

martial arts god battle destruction shounen anime adventure

Where to watch

Free / Included

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Top Billed Cast

Masako Nozawa

Son Goku / Son Gohan / Son Goten (voice)

Koichi Yamadera

Beerus (voice)

Masakazu Morita

Whis (voice)

Ryo Horikawa

Vegeta (voice)

Hiromi Tsuru

Bulma Briefs (voice)

Joji Yanami

Kaio / Dr. Briefs / Narrator (voice)

Toshio Furukawa

Piccolo (voice)

Shoko Nakagawa

Oracle Fish (voice)

Kenji Utsumi

Shenlong (voice)

Mayumi Tanaka

Kuririn (voice)

Toru Furuya

Yamcha (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Tenshinhan (voice)

Kozo Shioya

Majin Buu (voice)

Shigeru Chiba

Pilaf (voice)

Tessyo Genda

Shu (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Trunks (voice)

Unsho Ishizuka

Mr. Satan (voice)

Aya Hirano

Dende (voice)

Miki Ito

Android 18 (voice)

Naoko Watanabe

Puar / Chi-Chi (voice)

Yoko Kawanami

Bulma's Mom (voice)

Ryuuzaburou Ootomo

Gyuumao (voice)

Yuko Minaguchi

Videl (voice)

Crew

Yasunori Goto

Assistant Director

Masahiro Hosoda

Director

Yusuke Watanabe

Screenplay

Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Animation Director

Naotoshi Shida

Key Animation

Yuta Kiso

Key Animation

Yoshihiro Kanno

Key Animation

Takeo Ide

Key Animation

Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Key Animation

Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Storyboard Artist

Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Storyboard Artist

Kimitoshi Chioka

Storyboard Artist

Masahiro Hosoda

Storyboard Artist

Kaori Saito

Key Animation

Megumi Yamashita

Key Animation

Yohei Sasaki

Key Animation

Hitoshi Inaba

Key Animation

Ryo Onishi

Animation Director

Mayuko Yamamoto

Key Animation

Yuji Takagi

Key Animation

Yoo Hyo-sang

Key Animation

Yuta Takanami

Key Animation

Nanako Ninomiya

Key Animation

Aki Nakagawa

Key Animation

Kyouko Takeuchi

Key Animation

Kiyotoshi Aoi

Key Animation

Yu Ogasawara

Key Animation

Hikari Sakano

Key Animation

Noriko Ito

Key Animation

Takahiro Inoue

Key Animation

Nozomu Shishido

Key Animation

Kohei Hashimoto

Key Animation

Takaaki Yamashita

Key Animation

Masahiro Shimanuki

Animation Director

Toshiyuki Kanno

Animation Director

Masato Suzuki

Key Animation

Toshinari Abe

Key Animation

Shota Tsukiyama

Key Animation

Hiroshi Imaoka

Key Animation

Setsuko Shinmi

Key Animation

Kyohei Oyabu

Key Animation

Tomohito Abe

Key Animation

Hitoshi Kamata

Key Animation

Hiroshi Kohara

Key Animation

Koudai Kitahara

Key Animation

Masateru Inada

Key Animation

Lee Joo-hyun

Key Animation

Hiroyuki Itai

Key Animation

Ryo Onishi

Key Animation

Gen Satou

Key Animation

Misao Abe

Key Animation

Nobuhiro Masuda

Key Animation

Tetsuro Nireki

Key Animation

Akira Kano

Key Animation

Kyoko Kayano

Key Animation

Yosuke Yabumoto

Animation Director

Momoko Minegishi

Key Animation

Chiho Mifune

Key Animation

Emi Mori

Key Animation

Hirotaka Tokuda

Key Animation

Takahiro Goto

Key Animation

Hiromi Ishigami

Key Animation

Yuriko Sugaya

Key Animation

Isamu Takara

Key Animation

Tsutomu Yamamoto

Key Animation

Sadatoshi Matsuzaka

Key Animation

Kaori Endo

Key Animation

Yosuke Yabumoto

Key Animation

Kazuyuki Ikai

Key Animation

Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

Key Animation

Takayuki Sano

Key Animation

Yuichi Karasawa

Key Animation

Kaori Usui

Key Animation

Tomoka Karino

Key Animation

Yuji Ito

Key Animation

Ryoichi Murata

Key Animation

Asako Aoki

Key Animation

Yuya Takahashi

Key Animation

Osamu Nozaki

Producer

GOT'S

Theme Song Performance

IWASAKI

Theme Song Performance

KOHSHI

Theme Song Performance

TAKE

Theme Song Performance

KEIGO

Theme Song Performance

Akira Toriyama

Characters

Norihito Sumitomo

Original Music Composer

Takeo Konishi

Music Director

Teppei Hotta

Color Designer

Shinichi Fukumitsu

Editor

Satoru Matsuda

Sound Recordist

Hidenori Arai

Sound Effects Designer

Hidenori Arai

Sound Effects

Nao Ota

Special Effects

Yukihiro Masumoto

Director of Photography

Naoki Miyahara

CGI Director

Hiroshi Kato

Art Designer

Hirotsugu Kakoi

Art Direction

Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Supervising Animation Director

Riuko Tominaga

Producer

Gyarmath Bogdan

Producer

Collection

Dragon Ball Z Collection

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming

Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn

Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

March 2, 2025

Now the Anubian “Beerus” is like most cats and even if he is the god of destruction he likes a nap! For some reason, though, he has asked his debonair vizier “Whis” to wake him after an wholly insufficient 39 years and so his master is groggy and grumpy. He perks up a little, though, when he learns that “Frieza” has been vanquished by the aspiring young “Goku”. Perplexed that this young Saiyan could defeat someone far superior, he decides to go and find out about the rumours of a Saiyan god - at last a challenge worthy of walking him up for. Where better to start than on the tiny home planet of the Kai King where the young “Goku” was known to be living. Sure enough, there he is, but he’s not really much of a combatant and so the irked god decides he will go to his home planet of Earth and, well, squash it. Luckily for mankind, his arrival coincides with a rather lavish birthday party and both he and “Whis” like a bit of the all-you-can-eat. Meantime, “Goku” has to figure out just how the dragon balls might be able to help. Perhaps the legendary dragon “Shenron” can be summoned and explain - but when he does, it poses quite a quandary for the youngsters who are finding that the lack of pudding cups is really tempting the now bored “Beerus” to just do his worst then go home for some milk and another nice fifty year snooze. Can they figure out the dragon’s clue in time? It did take me a while to get the images of Justin Chatwin and Chow-Yun Fat from 2009 out of my head, but once that was done we are left with an amiably entertaining mix of Japanese and Egyptian mythology that’s spent a decent amount of time on quite a fun script, plenty of vibrant action and lots of sushi! The style of the animation is admittedly very basic, and in many ways has the look of a 1970s cartoon to it, but there are plenty of characterisations here and the story allows for lots of mischief to mix in with the spirit bombs, energy attacks, and interplanetary travel as we build to a dual of momentous proportions. I think the Egyptian pantheon is my favourite, amalgamating as it does animalistic and human behaviour and traits into some superb fodder for animators, and here Masahiro Hosodo let’s his artists tell us a good old story of good v evil that doesn’t really require us to know much about the earlier “Dragon Ball” stories. It also benefits from not concluding in the fashion you might expect. Remember - it’s never a good idea to hog all the puddings!

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Status

Released

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Budget

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Revenue

$50,461,371

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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)

Where to watch

Top Billed Cast

Crew

Collection

Dragon Ball Z Collection

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might

Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound

Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming

Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn

Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods