{"id":35731,"date":"2014-07-25T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=35731"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:03:16","slug":"justins-japan-dragon-ball-z-naruto-come-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/25\/justins-japan-dragon-ball-z-naruto-come-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin\u2019s Japan: \u2018Dragon Ball Z,\u2019 \u2018Naruto\u2019 Come to the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a><\/strong>. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This August will be a hot month for anime fans, as the latest feature length entries for two of the world\u2019s most popular series debut at Village East Cinema.<\/p>\n

First up (Aug. 5 and 9) is \u201cDragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods,\u201d the 18th animated feature of author Akira Toriyama\u2019s massively popular martial arts adventure series \u201cDragon Ball,\u201d which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The plot focuses on the dessert-loving God of Destruction Beerus, who awakes from a decades-long slumber to challenge Goku, the strongest fighter in the universe.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Dragon Ball Z\u2019 has been a gateway for me personally. Growing up watching Toonami in the \u201990s, the series influenced me as a kid to become obsessed with Japanese animation,\u201d said Maj Mack, founder and CEO of GoBoiano, a fast-growing anime startup with over 300,000 social media followers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Another long-running series (fifteen years and counting), \u201cNaruto,\u201d premieres Aug. 31-Sept. 1 with its ninth feature film, \u201cRoad to Ninja: Naruto the Movie.\u201d Set in an alternate timeline in which its characters have different origin stories and personalities, and featuring the theme song \u201cSore de wa, Mata Ashita\u201d by the J-rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, \u201cRoad to Ninja\u201d became the highest grossing \u201cNaruto\u201d movie to date within two months of its release in Japan.<\/p>\n

For tickets, visit www.fandango.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for\u00a0Shukan NY Seikatsu. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. This August will be a hot month for anime fans, as the latest feature length entries for two of the world\u2019s most popular series debut at Village East Cinema. First up (Aug. 5 and 9) is \u201cDragon Ball Z: Battle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t