The orthodox sequel to the Dragon Ball story Dragon Ball Super has been serialized for six years, and the work that officially opened the new series of stories is the 2013 theatrical version of the animation "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods", about the "God and God" theatrical version not only opened a new Dragon Ball story, but also let the role of Beerus and the God of Destruction and other settings appear one after another, but in the initial setting, this theatrical version and the role of Beerus are completely different from now, and the following eel will come to talk to you about the initial setting of "God and God".
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Akira Toriyama has always had little interest in Dragon Ball animation, "God and God" is his first deep participation in animation production, originally Akira Toriyama's task was only to propose modifications, but after seeing the initial script, he was not satisfied with the story, so he simply revised it himself, and rewrote the script with his own changes, after all, in Toriyama's view, instead of letting him give modification advice, it is better to draw it faster. So what kind of script made Akira Toriyama dissatisfied enough to go straight to the battlefield? The answer is the "black and deep" script.
"God of Destruction" and "Super Saiyan God" both set from "God and God" screenwriter Yusuke Watanabe, this story has a serious and dark tone, Beerus initially set up is an evil villain who can implant a heart of destruction, the personality of the Saiyan panda is also caused by him, combined with the setting of "Super Saiyan God" It is not difficult to guess, the initial script is a fateful duel between Saiyans and Destroyer, symbolizing the righteous Saiyan god got rid of the dark heart implanted by the God of Destruction and defeated it.
Although Akira Toriyama found the concept of "God of Destruction" very interesting, but because Japan had just experienced the 311 earthquake at that time, it was really inappropriate to launch a dark story, he felt that he still needed a happy theatrical version at that time, so he completely abandoned the "black and deep" style of "God and God" and instead created a story that was easy and witty for all ages, and the gods and gods did not destroy the building much because of the birds after the 311 earthquake. Yamaaki didn't want to make pictures of the destruction of the city.
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In Akira Toriyama's view, the main thrust of Dragon Ball, or goku's core principle, is not to destroy the enemy, but to "win", so the enemy does not necessarily have to be evil, so the god of destruction, Beerus, in addition to retaining the terror power he should have, the rest of the aspects are all the opposite of the feeling of the word "god of destruction", according to Akira Toriyama, that is, he likes to contradict people, to break the stereotype and redesign the character. In addition, Beerus's name is actually derived from the German virus birusu, but was mistaken by Akira Toriyama as the English "beer" beer, so he gave Weiss the name of the wine, and caused the destruction gods and angels to become "distilleries".
The prototype of Beerus's image is Akira Toriyama's cat, named Debo, so when designing Itachi Toriyama, he will pay special attention to adding some cute cat-like movements to Beerus. The reason why Beerus was designed as a cat is because Akira Toriyama felt that there were already many humanoid gods in the story. In terms of clothing, Akira Toriyama said that when he talks about cats, he first thinks of Egypt. Therefore, the style of clothing was determined. In addition, The planet where Beerus is located is also based on the Egyptian style, like an upside-down pyramid.
As for the angel Weiss, Akira Toriyama was carrying "I should have drawn some handsome guys too!" The idea of designing Weiss, although it is a "handsome guy" setting, but in fact closer to pretending to be a silly character, so that Birus and Weiss appear in the form of a duo is also a feature of Dragon Ball, adding narration to the story should be appropriate, and the role form of the duo can just replace the narration, so that the audience can more easily understand the character relevance and personality from the dialogue between the two, and many of the settings and plots that need to be narrated are directly completed by Weiss's lines.
About the early setting of the Dragon Ball theatrical version of "Gods and Gods" and the character design of Beerus and Weiss, Little Eel talked about this, thank you for reading.