Films like Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans.

Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans (2010) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (2011) poster
1. Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (2014) poster
2. Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary2014

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Doctor Strange (2007) poster
3. Doctor Strange2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009) poster
4. Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005) poster
5. Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles (2008) poster
6. Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Throne of Elves (2016) poster
7. Throne of Elves2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) poster
8. The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hot Wheels AcceleRacers: Ignition (2005) poster
9. Hot Wheels AcceleRacers: Ignition2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019) poster
10. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines2019

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017) poster
11. Mazinger Z: Infinity2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Cosmoball (2020) poster
12. Cosmoball2020

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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