Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)

2013 anime film

Released

30 March 2013

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Genre

Martial arts film

Director

Masahiro Hosoda

Screenplay

Yūsuke Watanabe

Producer

Rioko Tominaga, Gyarmath Bogdan

Music

Norihito Sumitomo

Cinematography

Yukihiro Masumoto

Editing

Shinichi Fukumitsu

Running time

85 minutes

Production company

Toei Animation

Distributor

Toei Company, Netflix

Box office

$50.5 million

Based on

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ 神と神, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto Kami to Kami; lit. "Dragon Ball Z: God and God") is a 2013 Japanese animated science fantasy martial arts film. It is the eighteenth animated feature film based on the 1984–95 manga series Dragon Ball, the fourteenth to carry the Dragon Ball Z branding, and is the first film in the franchise to be personally supervised by series creator Akira Toriyama. It was the first animated Dragon Ball film in 17 years to have a theatrical release, the last being Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996), and the first to use digital ink and paint. Unlike previous theatrical Dragon Ball releases, this was a full feature-length production with a stand-alone release and not shown as part of the now-discontinued Toei Anime Fair (formerly the Toei Manga Matsuri). At the time of its release, Battle of Gods was initially the first film considered an official part of the Dragon Ball storyline, being set during the time skip in chapter 517 of the original manga.

Series

• Preceded by: Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
• Followed by: Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.