The third and final movie from the first Dragon Ball series.
A bit weaker than the previous two, in my opinion, but still pretty entertaining.
While the first movies did recycled some scenes from the series, "Mystical Adventure" is more blatant in that retelling aspect.
There were a couple of interesting changes however. The most notorious one being the deaths of Pilaf, Mai and Shu at the very beginning (Considering the effect they had in the atrocious Goku Black saga from the awful Dragon Ball Super series, makes me wish that have happened in the main canon too) and the very cool new setting: Truth to be told, I prefer the Mifan empire than Papaya Island for the martial arts tournament.
Also poor Yamcha, being unable to catch a break. His humilliating defeat here during his fight against Bora due the intervention of Roshi makes me think the writers already something against him. Why did Roshi even do that?
A pretty decent movie, very entertaining, but a bit rushed in a few parts. And despite the small role played by Arale here, it already shows how the story of Dragon Ball was already taking a more serious direction.
A bit weaker than the previous two, in my opinion, but still pretty entertaining.
While the first movies did recycled some scenes from the series, "Mystical Adventure" is more blatant in that retelling aspect.
There were a couple of interesting changes however. The most notorious one being the deaths of Pilaf, Mai and Shu at the very beginning (Considering the effect they had in the atrocious Goku Black saga from the awful Dragon Ball Super series, makes me wish that have happened in the main canon too) and the very cool new setting: Truth to be told, I prefer the Mifan empire than Papaya Island for the martial arts tournament.
Also poor Yamcha, being unable to catch a break. His humilliating defeat here during his fight against Bora due the intervention of Roshi makes me think the writers already something against him. Why did Roshi even do that?
A pretty decent movie, very entertaining, but a bit rushed in a few parts. And despite the small role played by Arale here, it already shows how the story of Dragon Ball was already taking a more serious direction.