_D_ wrote:The big deal for my friends in Japan seems to be Naruto, which completely escapes me. But then the new DBZ movie came out and everyone went gaga over that...
I'm kind of "gaga" for that DBZ movie...it was written by Akira Toriyama himself. What I am liking about some of the movie tie-ins with series is that the original creators are having more say in the movies, so they don't end up so filler-like (Naruto and One Piece other good examples). It looks like because of it they get a bit more hype than usual. I hope that the creators do have more say in their animated versions of their stories in the future.