Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
- cosy
- kinetic
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / action, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Following the defeat of Majin Buu, Son Goku and friends travel to Mr. Satan's newly-opened hotel for an all-you-can-eat banquet, when they are paid a visit by Vegeta's younger brother Tarble. They are informed by Tarble that the terrible brother duo of Abo and Cado have terrorized his planet and are on their way to Earth.
Our read · Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · action · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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