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Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound (1993)

★ 7.2 · 620 ratings on TMDB

A new threat emerges. A champion prepares.

Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound poster★ 7.2

Mr. Money is holding another World Martial Arts Tournament and Mr. Satan invites everyone in the world to join in. Little does he know that Bojack, an ancient villain who has escaped his prison, is competing. Since Goku is currently dead, it is up to Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to defeat Bojack and his henchman.

DirectorYoshihiro Ueda
CastDaisuke Gori, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Naoko Watanabe, Ryo Horikawa
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “intergalactic tournament”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, heroism, war, competition, conquest.

↷ aliensJPpowerheroismwarcompetitionconquest
Also inFilms about warConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms 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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Also hides consciousness here

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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 Z: The History of Trunks (1993)dir. Yoshihiro UedaDragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans (2010)dir. Yoshihiro UedaDragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008)dir. Yoshihiro UedaDragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015)Masako NozawaDragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990)Hirotaka SuzuokiDragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! (1992)Masako Nozawa