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Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ - Special One Shot
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February 27, 2021
This was a pretty good one shot and is mostly setting up the movie Resurrection F and is about Freeza revival and meeting his new army, Goku and Vegeta training with Whis and Beerus and then when Freeza invades it deals with how the Z-Warriors fight and the Goku arrival and maybe some new forms for both! Its really cool and just serves as a prequel to DBS by Toyotaro and is fantastic! Fun, short, quick read!
February 22, 2025
A movie tie-in that seems more like a test for Toyotaro to see if he was ready for the Dragon Ball Super manga. It's fine if you've seen the movie you're not missing anything. I was hoping for even just one extra page of content that's unique to this but there's nothing. Not bad but nothing new.
March 7, 2022
I don't know why it took me so long to get around to this, but it appears the version I read was only uploaded two years ago, quite some time after I'd started reading Toyotarou's longer Dragon Ball Super manga, so the idea of ever reading this one-shot remained on the back-burner for a while.
As the title suggests, this Fukkatsu no 'F' one-shot is a tie-in with the Dragon Ball Z movie of the same name, follow-up to Kami to Kami, together acting as a pilot of sorts for the later Dragon Ball Super multimedia project. Toyotarou, widely believed to be Toyble of Dragon Ball AF, a doujinshi designed as a "what-if" sequel to the Dragon Ball GT anime. Toyotarou would later work on the Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission tie-in manga to the arcade card games that themselves operate on non-canon fan-wank around Dragon Ball lore. This manga sets up the FnF movie, while also doubling as a pilot for the Dragon Ball Super manga, also drawn by Toyo, which would go on to omit the Golden Freeza Arc in favor of a note informing readers to watch the movie instead, despite the manga re-adapting the Beerus Arc, and Toei's DBS anime reimagining both arcs to include extra content not found in the DBZ films.
Based on the way things are handled in the DBS manga Toyo would later draw, I assumed this one-shot would be enough to cover the duration of the FnF movie. I was wrong. Instead, the manga stops just short of Freeza's transformation into his Golden State, with no hints of Son Goku or Vegeta going Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. This is reasonable, as the purpose of the one-shot is to increase hype for the new movie, and in blue-balling the readers it encourages them to go to the theater to see what will come of the rematches between Saiyans and Galactic Emperor. Unfortunately, the consequence is that it does not fill in the gap left open in Toyo's DBS manga, which is especially disconcerting considering how important this story is to the later Tournament of Power....
When this manga's parent film was new, I avoided it, despite a childhood love for Dragon Ball. I'd avoided KtK as well, as I thought it was goofy to introduce an Anubis-looking cat-man as new antagonist, as well as a new form for Goku that dyes his base hairstyle red and makes him a bit skinnier. When FnF came around, with its blue-haired Super Saiyan recolors and gold-skinned Freeza recolor, I was even less interested, especially what with the reuse of Freeza as a villain instead of something new. It would not be until 2017 (I think) that I would finally watch both movies, with the DBS anime having aired for quite some time, and I only checked them out because I was chatting with a buddy at work who vouched for them. KtK was actually really fun, mostly for its humor, but the fight was good, too. FnF was neat for allowing Son Gohan, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Kuririn, Muten-Roshi, and Jaco to fight Freeza's forces (I'd read the Jaco manga by this point, not expecting it to tie into DB), but if I'm not mistaken the crowds of Freeza soldiers were mostly conspicuous CG that disgusted me a little to look at. The final fights were alright, but I was pissed off that a major conflict was resolved with a brief instance of time-rewinding that didn't feel like it was adequately set up (on top of screwing Vegeta out of the kill).
I was able to retroactively appreciate the Golden Freeza Arc when I would learn that Freeza was hired as a member of Universe 7's team for the Tournament of Power, effectively making any instance of a villainous Freeza follow a theme established in the past, with Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Artificial Human No. 18, Boo, and Beerus, with Hit becoming a new rival for Goku in Super, and No. 17 becoming another hero moments before Freeza joins the team (and Jiren and Broly becoming rivals later). FnF thus could be said to exist for the purpose of a) reminding us of Freeza, so b) he can be reintroduced as a major player for the future of the franchise. If the franchise were to have left Freeza dead after FnF, it would make the film less interesting overall, but since he's been revived again, and especially because he instigates the Broly Arc later on, he maintains a sense of relevance that justifies this story. So saying, when I would later begin actually watching the Toei DBS anime series, I found myself enjoying the revised Golden Freeza Arc more than I initially did the film, so I'm somewhat excited to eventually rewatch that movie, hence why I wanted to read this one-shot.
I cannot rate this manga too high, as its story is incomplete, acting far more like a promotional item than an artwork in itself, but I appreciate it enough simply because it does a better job at forshadowing Whis's time-rewinding ability than other versions of the same story (movie and TV adaptation). The time-rewind is the "cheapest" element of the story, basically a deus ex machina, so it's nice to see more care in setting it up beforehand, to make it piss me off less. Thanks, Toyo!
As the title suggests, this Fukkatsu no 'F' one-shot is a tie-in with the Dragon Ball Z movie of the same name, follow-up to Kami to Kami, together acting as a pilot of sorts for the later Dragon Ball Super multimedia project. Toyotarou, widely believed to be Toyble of Dragon Ball AF, a doujinshi designed as a "what-if" sequel to the Dragon Ball GT anime. Toyotarou would later work on the Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission tie-in manga to the arcade card games that themselves operate on non-canon fan-wank around Dragon Ball lore. This manga sets up the FnF movie, while also doubling as a pilot for the Dragon Ball Super manga, also drawn by Toyo, which would go on to omit the Golden Freeza Arc in favor of a note informing readers to watch the movie instead, despite the manga re-adapting the Beerus Arc, and Toei's DBS anime reimagining both arcs to include extra content not found in the DBZ films.
Based on the way things are handled in the DBS manga Toyo would later draw, I assumed this one-shot would be enough to cover the duration of the FnF movie. I was wrong. Instead, the manga stops just short of Freeza's transformation into his Golden State, with no hints of Son Goku or Vegeta going Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. This is reasonable, as the purpose of the one-shot is to increase hype for the new movie, and in blue-balling the readers it encourages them to go to the theater to see what will come of the rematches between Saiyans and Galactic Emperor. Unfortunately, the consequence is that it does not fill in the gap left open in Toyo's DBS manga, which is especially disconcerting considering how important this story is to the later Tournament of Power....
When this manga's parent film was new, I avoided it, despite a childhood love for Dragon Ball. I'd avoided KtK as well, as I thought it was goofy to introduce an Anubis-looking cat-man as new antagonist, as well as a new form for Goku that dyes his base hairstyle red and makes him a bit skinnier. When FnF came around, with its blue-haired Super Saiyan recolors and gold-skinned Freeza recolor, I was even less interested, especially what with the reuse of Freeza as a villain instead of something new. It would not be until 2017 (I think) that I would finally watch both movies, with the DBS anime having aired for quite some time, and I only checked them out because I was chatting with a buddy at work who vouched for them. KtK was actually really fun, mostly for its humor, but the fight was good, too. FnF was neat for allowing Son Gohan, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Kuririn, Muten-Roshi, and Jaco to fight Freeza's forces (I'd read the Jaco manga by this point, not expecting it to tie into DB), but if I'm not mistaken the crowds of Freeza soldiers were mostly conspicuous CG that disgusted me a little to look at. The final fights were alright, but I was pissed off that a major conflict was resolved with a brief instance of time-rewinding that didn't feel like it was adequately set up (on top of screwing Vegeta out of the kill).
I was able to retroactively appreciate the Golden Freeza Arc when I would learn that Freeza was hired as a member of Universe 7's team for the Tournament of Power, effectively making any instance of a villainous Freeza follow a theme established in the past, with Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Artificial Human No. 18, Boo, and Beerus, with Hit becoming a new rival for Goku in Super, and No. 17 becoming another hero moments before Freeza joins the team (and Jiren and Broly becoming rivals later). FnF thus could be said to exist for the purpose of a) reminding us of Freeza, so b) he can be reintroduced as a major player for the future of the franchise. If the franchise were to have left Freeza dead after FnF, it would make the film less interesting overall, but since he's been revived again, and especially because he instigates the Broly Arc later on, he maintains a sense of relevance that justifies this story. So saying, when I would later begin actually watching the Toei DBS anime series, I found myself enjoying the revised Golden Freeza Arc more than I initially did the film, so I'm somewhat excited to eventually rewatch that movie, hence why I wanted to read this one-shot.
I cannot rate this manga too high, as its story is incomplete, acting far more like a promotional item than an artwork in itself, but I appreciate it enough simply because it does a better job at forshadowing Whis's time-rewinding ability than other versions of the same story (movie and TV adaptation). The time-rewind is the "cheapest" element of the story, basically a deus ex machina, so it's nice to see more care in setting it up beforehand, to make it piss me off less. Thanks, Toyo!
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