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Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990)

★ 6.5 · 622 ratings on TMDB

From the seeds of destruction, a new threat has arisen.

Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might poster★ 6.5

Goku and friends must stop a band of space pirates from consuming fruit from the Tree of Might before it's destructive powers drain Earth's energy.

DirectorDaisuke Nishio
CastHiroko Emori, Hiromi Tsuru, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Joji Yanami, Kohei Miyauchi, Masako Nozawa
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction, TV Movie
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “planetary life-drain”. The story fights on E7/E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, environment, greed.

↷ aliensJPpowerenvironmentgreed
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E7scarcitya single tree can consume planetary life energy, creating universal scarcity of biological resources (biology · local)
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms that alter a rule of realityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987)dir. Daisuke NishioDragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986)dir. Daisuke NishioDragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (1990)dir. Daisuke NishioDragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (1991)Hiromi TsuruDragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (1988)Hiroko EmoriDragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)Hiromi Tsuru