Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen

A mysterious device crashes on planet Earth, causing a wildfire near where Gohan Son, Kuririn, Bulma, and Oolong are camping. Unable to fully save the forest, they decide to use the Dragon Balls to restore it to its previous condition. A few days later, a group of unknown warriors plant a seed where the mysterious device had crashed, sprouting a colossal tree that destroys the forest and neighboring cities in the process.

North Kaio contacts Gokuu Son and tells him that this tree is the "Shinseiju"—a tree that absorbs all the nutrients in the planet and leaves it a barren wasteland, all the while growing a mighty fruit capable of providing incredible power to anyone who eats it. After learning of this, Gokuu and his friends try destroying the tree before it is too late, but that may prove to be more difficult than they had previously imagined.

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Background

Pink Mizu Dorobou Ame Dorobou, Kennosuke-sama, and Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen were triple-billed in theaters as a part of the “Akira Toriyama the World” screening at the Toei Anime Fair.

Episode Videos

Episode 1

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Related Anime

Parent story:	Dragon Ball Z
Sequel:	Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu
Other:	Pink Mizu Dorobou Ame Dorobou, Kennosuke-sama

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Characters & Voice Actors

Son, Gokuu

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Son, Gohan

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Turles

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Piccolo

Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Bulma

Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi
Japanese

Muten-Roushi

Supporting

Miyauchi, Kouhei
Japanese

Kuririn

Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi
Japanese

Yamcha

Supporting

Furuya, Toru
Japanese

Tenshinhan

Supporting

Suzuoki, Hirotaka
Japanese

Chi-Chi

Supporting

Shou, Mayumi
Japanese

More staff

Staff

Cook, Justin

Producer

Nishio, Daisuke

Director

Vale, Eric

Script

Koyama, Takao

Script

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Opening Theme

"Cha-La Head Cha-La" by Hironobu Kageyama

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Ending Theme

"Marugoto" by Hironobu Kageyama

Reviews

Jan 13, 2016

Neko_Princess

Recommended

Well it's a Dragon Ball Z movie. We have cute young Gohan and a little purple dragon. I really enjoyed some of the cuter scenes.The fight scenes are decent, but less exciting than most of the other movies. Plot line is good, it mostly focuses on Gohan and Goku. We do get to see the other characters, Chi-chi, Piccolo, Krillin, the little pig thing, King Kai, and some others. It's a pretty short movie and could easily be watched by someone who has never even seen Dragon Ball Z before without confusion.

The art style is typical of the older Dragon Ball Z episodes and ...

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May 8, 2010

kekekeKaj

Mixed Feelings

Another Dragon Ball Z movie, another improvement on the ones I've watched before. This makes 4 in a row!!! This one is especially surprisingly - it turned out to be quite a good action anime overall, and not just compared to the other movies of the franchise. As far as fighting anime go, it's certainly not quite as the same level as the Street Fighter 2 animated movie, but still it's pretty good.

The action is quite absorbing for once, consisting of more than just ultra fast punching sequences, and the story is actually slightly more sophisticated than the usual "here's a new boss, now ...

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Jan 27, 2019

Lemmy7003

Not Recommended

On my quest to watch and review all the Dragon Ball Z films, I'd been feeling pretty good about their quality after watching Dead Zone and The World's Strongest, wondering if they weren't as bad as I thought they'd be. Tree of Might ground that idea to a halt and made me a lot more worried about the quality I'll be expecting in the near future - since this seems to be one of the better regarded ones.

Tree of Might features the coming of Turles, a Saiyan warrior who bares a near exact resemblance to our hero Goku, and his planting of a 'Tree of ... Might' that'll drain all of the nutrients from the Earth to create a fruit that'll give him the power to rival the universe.

Overall, the premise is solid - The Tree of Might's depiction is pretty unnerving, and the scenes of it slowing creeping across and draining the world are pretty tense to watch. I enjoyed the first fifteen minutes or so of the film, since it's rare we get to see our heroes at this point in Dragon Ball Z in a more relaxed setting - the camping trip at the start, and the hunt for the Dragon Balls that follow is a really fun concept. I think there was a little too much of Goku hanging out with his new dragon friend, but it played out pretty well once the fight against Turles started up.

Sadly, whilst the first two films had fairly original (if basic) plots, Tree of Might just feels like a new take on the Saiyan Saga, but without literally any of the good parts of it. Saiyan comes to Earth? Check. Powerful leader with weaker goon(s)? Check. Plan to use the Earth for their own gain? Check. The issue is, that literally not one thing outside of their usage of the Tree of Might is remotely as dramatic or interesting as ANYTHING that happens in the Saiyan saga.

Whilst I was pretty positive with the last couple of antagonists in the form of Garlic Jr. and Doctor Wheelo, sadly Turles is as massive downgrade from the them. There is literally nothing unique about him, outside of his resemblance of Goku, which is only a part of the character design for shock value; it's literally only brought up twice. He's just overpowering strong for the sake of strong - no one in the film holds a candle to him, even Goku, and it just makes the fights boring to watch as he swats them out of the sky over and over again.

The major fights are... okay, at the very best, which isn't a very good thing when this is Dragon Ball Z. Literally no one does anything of use in the entire film outside of Goku - there was literally no reason for Krillan, Tienshen or Yamcha to join in the fight, as I didn't think they land a useful strike all film. Piccolo is marginally useful, and Gohan has the one caveat of having a transformation during the film, which looks spectacular and is probably the highlight of the film. Though, what I feel is the biggest issue of the film is that Goku's victory against Turles feels utterly unearned - he barely scratches Turles before he's tterly defeated, and pretty much snatches a victory for himself and the Earth out of nowhere. And I know this is a thing that happens frequently in Dragon Ball Z, but this one feels so much worse then the others since Turles is basically unharmed. The fights are worth watching for one viewing, but overall none of them stick out in my memory.

On a more positive note, this film looks and sounds fantastic - The Tree of Might serves as a fantastic arena for the battles in the film. I'm not as good as noticing great songs in anime, but even I could pick out the pretty uplifting and hype-worthy tracks that played out in the final moments of the film. Animation overall is okay, reaching a highpoint during Gohan's transformation, but overall it didn't have anything that really sticked out overall. It's typical movie quality, but it feels like at this point they weren't quite putting as much effort as the first couple of movies.

I think Tree of Might is good enough to warrant one watch through, but even for Dragon Ball Z fans I feel this ones a slog - with a wasted premise, average fights, and awful usage of just about every character, Dragon Ball Z's third outing to the cinema is a much weaker affair then the others, leading me to question the good things I'd heard about it prior to my watch, and hopefully not an indication of the future films quality. But, I digress - it has it's moments, but it's easily one of the weaker entries in Dragon Ball overall that I've ever seen.