Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) on Netflix

PG20131h 25mAction Animation Comedy

After Majin Buu's defeat, God of Destruction Beerus seeks the Saiyan who defeated Frieza. When Beerus threatens Earth, the Z-fighters must stop him, but only Goku can become a Super Saiyan God.

Netflix4.0/5
IMDb7.1/1032,497 votes
Rotten Tomatoes88%

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Plot summary

The events of Battle of Gods take place some years after the battle with Majin Buu, which determined the fate of the entire universe. Bills, the God of Destruction, is tasked with maintaining some sort of balance in the universe. After awakening from a long slumber, Bills is visited by Whis and learns that the galactic overlord Frieza has been defeated by a Super Saiyan from the North Quadrant of the universe named Goku, who is also a former student of the North Kai. Ecstatic over the new challenge, Goku ignores King Kai's advice and battles Bills, but he is easily overwhelmed and defeated. Bills leaves, but his eerie remark of "Is there nobody on Earth more worthy to destroy?" lingers on. Now it is up to the heroes to stop the God of Destruction before all is lost.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)

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Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama designed the character Yogen-gyo to be larger than a person, but because he gave the animation team no scale chart, it ended up small enough to fit in someone's palm.
The God of Destruction Beerus was designed by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama with a cat as the model, and his clothes were based on Egyptian garments, as he revealed in the following issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.
Battle of Gods was the first-ever Japanese film screened at IMAX Digital Theaters, showing at all 16 IMAX Digital locations across Japan, though it was not shown in 3D.
It was the first animated Dragon Ball film in 17 years to get a theatrical release, the previous one being Dragon Ball: The Path to Power in 1996, and the first in the franchise to use digital ink and paint.
The film's theme song is a cover of Hironobu Kageyama's "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", the original opening theme of Dragon Ball Z, recorded by the rock band Flow, whose members said they had been fans since elementary school.