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Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (1991)

★ 6.5 · 585 ratings on TMDB
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug poster★ 6.5

A Super Namekian named Slug comes to invade Earth. But the Z Warriors do their best to stop Slug and his gang.

DirectorMitsuo Hashimoto
CastHiromi Tsuru, Joji Yanami, Keiichi Nanba, Kenji Utsumi, Kohei Miyauchi, Masako Nozawa
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien invasion”. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, power, survival.

↷ aliensJPtechnologypowersurvival
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about survivalFilms about technologyFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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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.

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