Legend: A Dragon Ball Tale (2022) User Reviews

RIP Akira Toriyama

[ericstevenson · 9/10 · 8 March 2024]

I watched this to commemorate the life of Akira Toriyama, the creator of "Dragonball". This fan film is great, featuring this alternate universe where Vegeta arrived to meet up with Goku when he was fighting Chi-Chi at the tournament. I initially thought it was Vegeta who was fighting Goku, but it turned out to be Brolly. What a great bait and switch! The scenes with Chi-Chi were the best in the short. I think she had the most accurate voice of any character there.

Vegeta's didn't seem quite right. I did love seeing these unique designs. I wasn't expecting Brolly to lose his hand! I guess that is something pretty rare in this franchise. Well, the limbs always grow back on a lot of these characters. There's a live-action segment at the end, which is a tad out of place.

It's still wonderful with how you can tell it's a different continuity, yet still faithful to the original. Thank you, Akira Toriyama, for giving us one of the best franchises ever. I feel bad knowing little about the guy himself. Anyway, this had a very unique kind of animation. It's always awesome to see Vegeta become an actual king! I mean, people have always wondered why he didn't become one if his father was dead. ****

A senzu bean for the soul.

[brandgbenjamin · 10/10 · 1 August 2022]

This was perfection from start to finish. The animation is frenetic and joyful. The voice acting is faithful without devolving to mere mimicry. The plot is a noticeably different take on DB history which should be applauded, as far too often we just see tired retreads. I can't remember the last time DB fan work left me hungry for answers. This is what the people want, it is passion and effort and respects the viewers time. I recommend this to all but the most unimaginative of DB fans. As a Vegeta diehard, I was especially delighted by this. Please watch this and share it with other fans.

A fantastic and unique take on dragon ball

[afdahseyad · 10/10 · 2 August 2022]

This takes some of the best parts of dragon ball to create such a unique adaptation. The animation, the short story, the references are all easily 10/10, while also being distinctly different from the original. It's clear that an unimaginable of time, effort and passion went into this. If you somehow haven't watched this already, then go watch it, honestly is the highest quality piece of animation I have ever seen.

The hottest piece of media. Period

[uchiigames · 10/10 · 3 August 2022]

The Dragon Ball community has been going through it as of late. With how the story in the "main continuity" has been treated, fans have been at eachothers throats back and forth over what is certain and what isn't. From continuities, to power scaling. You name it and the problems just keep pouring in.

However, when Legend came to be, it did something that the original source material has been struggling to do for a very long time. Legend took the entire franchise of Dragon Ball and re-imagined in such a way that took the internet by complete surprise. Instead of arguing over vague explanations, or exploiting the inconsistencies with.the characters and stories, fans have united out of sheer passion and raw excitement at the perfection that is Legend, A Dragon Ball Tale.

This, less than 10 MINUTE FILM, does so much and more that the biggest takeaway from all of this is simply that a little bit of passion and real love for something can blossom into an entity that can inspire and empower anyone it graces.

I really hope the remaining parts release in time.

It was Amazing

[CrimsonGucciGang · 10/10 · 14 September 2022]

As a Dragon Ball fan this Dragon Ball Fan made short film Was amazing, every detail, every scenes was phenomenal, the Animations were sick loved it. Eaven the dubbing was good, the super sayian transformation was smooth and so good he was looking like ghost rider. Overall amazing short fan made film 9 out 10 want more and the people who made it live to them.

And for people who haven't watched it you find it on YouTube search dragon Ball Tales. The impressive thing was that it took 4 years to make it so hats off to the creators for making this Masterpiece of fan made movie.

We need to support them so they get big everytime and give us more masterpiece like this.

Pretty Boring

[coolpowder · 1/10 · 17 September 2022]

Man what trash fan job why is this so gross damn it doesn't follow the original style and very ugly the style of this business is funny the people the fact that dragon ball haters found this business to curse trolling them pretending to be pseudo intellectual on the internet praising it as if it were the best thing in the world pistols are left ksksksksksksksksksk I imagine if it was dreamworks or disney doing this if there would be this bunch of pretending on the internet and just wait for someone to do the same too that then everyone sees themselves if the people who really think that this best animation of dragon ball o people have to wear glasses and of course obviously and just a dumb hype on youtube an hour goes by and then there will be hate as well as current anime despite the current anime having a better animation than this thing.

Visually impressive fan animation

[Rectangular_businessman · 10 May 2024]

It's kinda amazing how Dragon Ball managed to inspire so much people around the globe, isn't it?

Sure, some people might dismiss that series due the simplicity of the plot, but nobody can deny the huge cultural impact and influence it left to this very day, with many modern battle shonen anime series still wanting to follow its footsteps.

Its influence is also present in many western works, as this fan-made animation shows. And for a fan-made project, the result is quite impressive, featuring a very nice, fluid animation which actually surpasses many official releases from this franchise.

On the other side, the script has a solemnity quite unusual for Dragon Ball (From what I heard, the English dub of the series altered some lines of the characters, giving Goku a more conventionally heroic personality, and this might be somewhat influenced by that) which honestly felt a bit awkward at moments, but the animation alone made the whole experience worth-watching for every Dragon Ball fan.