Dragon Ball Z Movie 06: Gekitotsu!! 100-oku Power no Senshi-tachi

A mysterious entity known as the "Big Gete Star" clings onto planet New Namek to absorb its energy, putting all Namekians in grave danger. Dende, Earth's new guardian, learns about the prevailing situation in his homeland and quickly requests Gokuu Son and his friends for help.

Upon arrival in New Namek, they discover that the Namekians are held captive by powerful robots, whose leader turns out to be Cooler. He explains that the advanced technology of the Big Gete Star saved him from what otherwise would have been certain death. Alongside his mechanical army, Cooler proceeds to attack Gokuu and his friends to get rid of them once and for all.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Son, Gokuu

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Nozawa, Masako
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Vegeta

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Horikawa, Ryo
Japanese

Cooler

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Nakao, Ryusei
Japanese

Son, Gohan

Supporting

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Piccolo

Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Muten-Roushi

Supporting

Miyauchi, Kouhei
Japanese

Kuririn

Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi
Japanese

Mr. Popo

Supporting

Nishio, Toku
Japanese

Yajirobe

Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi
Japanese

Dende

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Suzuki, Tomiko
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Cook, Justin

Producer

Watson, Barry

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Nishio, Daisuke

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Koyama, Takao

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Opening Theme

"Cha-La Head-Cha-La" by Hironobu Kageyama

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Ending Theme

"HERO (Kimi ga Hero)" by Hironobu Kageyama

Episode Videos

Episode 1

Reviews

Sep 28, 2022

KeflaSimp69

Recommended

This movie is the sequel to DBZ Movie 5 Cooler's revenge and would take place around the Cell Saga in the anime continuity. But like most Dragon Ball Z movies, it can't fit into the main story and is another parallel timeline kind of experience.

New Namek is being invaded by overpowered robots, and Dende, who has become the new guardian earlier in this continuity, sent Goku and the gang to investigate. These new robots pose a massive threat since they can take attacks even from Piccolo before changing his fighting style who is the strongest character at this point from the good guys. Amongst the ... robots is a robot version of Cooler who happened to survive his encounter with Son Goku.
Can Goku defeat the powered up Cooler and can they stop the Gete Star who is the host computer who tries absorbing the planet which explains why all these robots can even pose a threat?

The fights in this movie are amazing and the characters have to figure out how to penetrate the armor of these robots. Metal or Meta Cooler is also a unique foe with various tricks up his sleeve such as regeneration which fixes issues in its components or Instant Transmission.
This movie is also the first time Goku and Vegeta team up and fight alongside each other which wouldn't happen in the main continuity until the Boo Saga. It is also the first time Vegeta appears in a Dragon Ball movie and it doesn't feel like he is shoehorned in like in other movies since his assistance is pretty much required to finish the main villalin.

While the artstyle and still frames look awful, the animation itself is fluid and looks great. And being a movie mostly focused on action, it does a really good job at it and the fight against Cooler is memorable because of the shift in power. Cooler really feels like an unbeatable force in this movie since he gets stronger each time he repairs himself even pressuring two Super Saiyans. Even the images seen can give first time viewers the creeps being unusually scary how Cooler outclasses the until then unbeatable warrior or legend.
But it wouldn't be a Dragon Ball movie without comedy sprinkled around and the good thing is there are no sudden tone shifts that ruin these intense scenes. Comic relief is provided mainly by Yajirobe, Oolong and Master Roshi who just came to sightsee I guess.

In terms of movie cliches, it establishes Vegeta's role of saving Goku but telling that only he can kill him. And some of the flashy scenes like the Big Bang Attack and Instant Transmission being used. It is also one of few movies where they win with teamwork without giving away energy to Goku.

This movie is very underrated despite having a popular character like Cooler in it probably because of the akward still frames. But if you like Dragon Ball Z for the amazing fights, good humor and the characters, you will probably enjoy watching Cooler's return.

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Dec 27, 2024

N0T3LI_

Mixed Feelings

Dragon Ball Z: Return of Cooler is a sequel which slightly falls short of the previous installment.
Cooler, despite being sent into the literal fucking Sun survives- and takes over Namek to begin his plan of revenge.
This time, he plays no games. He essentially shows up by himself, and solos both SSJ Vegeta and Goku (Vegeta's finally in these movies now, huzzah!) I liked that there were no underlings this time, since they all thus far have ended up being very boring. Piccolo gang fights off these robots in a pretty cool fight.

Coolers design is an overall downgrade from his previous one (what happened to Fourth ...

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May 6, 2020

Thedude3445

Not Recommended

I appreciate that these movies are keeping some minor focus, even if only for comedic value, on the minor characters like Oolong and Yajirobe. It makes me want more plain old Dragon Ball stuff, in the time before constant power levels and fifty-chapter long fight scenes forced all of the humor and fantasy into the background. Considering how unstoppably popular Dragon Ball Z was at the time, they easily could have utilized these movies to focus on the lesser characters and the ways they've grown over the years when they aren't training or anything. Instead, we get more Goku (and Vegeta this time!) fighting against ...