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Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (1994)

★ 6.8 · 717 ratings on TMDB
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming poster★ 6.8

A Saiyan Space pod crash-lands on Earth out of which a wounded Saiyan crawls: Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. The wounded Broly shouts out in frustration and turns into normal form. The place soon freezes, trapping him in it and he falls into a coma.

DirectorShigeyasu Yamauchi
CastAsuka Kimura, Bin Shimada, Chafurin, Hisao Egawa, Junko Shimakata, Masako Nozawa
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “saiyan battleworld”. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, family, combat.

↷ aliensJPpowerfamilycombat
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about familyFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same subject, different mask

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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