Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
VHS box art
Directed by	Original: Shigeyasu Yamauchi Remake: Yoshihiro Ueda
Produced by	Original: Kōzō Morishita, Seiichi Hiruta Remake: Tomoaki Imanishi, Hiroyuki Kinoshita
Written by	Takao Koyama (screenplay) Akira Toriyama (original series author)
Starring	Masako Nozawa (Son Gokū / Son Gohan / Tullece) Ryō Horikawa (Vegeta) Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo) Takeshi Kusao (Trunks) Hiromi Tsuru (Bulma) Naoko Watanabe (Chi-Chi) Toku Nishio (Mr. Popo) Tomiko Suzuki (Dende) Ryuusei Nakao (Freeza / Coola) Hisao Egawa (Monster / God Guardon) Yūsaku Yara (Slug) Shinji Ogawa (Dr. Raichi) Joji Yanami (Kaiosama/Narration)
Animation director	Masahiro Shimanuki (orginal)
Chara design	Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Music by	Keiju Ishikawa (original) Hiroshi Takaki (remake)
Editing by	Shinichi Fukumitsu (original) Kenta Katase (remake)
Release date(s)	August 6, 1993 (original) November 11, 2010 (remake)
Running time	60 minutes (original) 30 minutes (remake)
Language(s)	Japanese

Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans (ドラゴンボールZ外伝 サイヤ人絶滅計画, Doragon Bōru Zetto Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku; lit. "Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans") was the first Dragon Ball Z original video animation (OVA). It was originally released on home video cassettes in Japan on August 6, 1993, between episodes 195 and 196, as an Official Visual Guides to the Famicom game Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku. The OVA has since been re-released on DVD in Japan as an extra feature of the Dragon Box collection in 2003.

Coming as a bonus with every copy of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 in 2010,^[1] the OVA was completely reconstructed, re-scripted, and re-edited, finally seeing release in North America and Europe. As announced in December 2011, this remake was streamed online as part of the Dragon Ball SSSS project.

SummaryEdit

Chikyū-HenEdit

Dr. Raichi is one of the only survivors of the Tuffles, a race that once lived on Planet Plant before the coming of the Saiyans. The Saiyans not only massacred the entire Tuffle race, but also stole their technology and conquered the planet, renaming it Planet Vegeta in honor of their king. Raichi managed to escape with a capsule and found refuge on the Dark Planet, a world at the end of the universe. Now, his only wish is to eradicate the last remaining Saiyans.

To do this, Dr. Raichi puts devices on Earth that emit Destron Gas and destroy all life, and he sends many monsters to protect this Destron Gas emitters. When Mr. Popo/Bulma finds out that only a few hours are left until the planet's destruction, Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Future Trunks, and Piccolo rush to destroy the evil devices located around the planet. They manage to destroy all but one that is protected by an impenetrable energy barrier. However, Frieza, Cooler, Turles and Lord Slug appear and engage the heroes in individual fight. It is revealed by King Kai that the villains are Ghost Warriors, and will continually come back to life when killed unless defeated in the same way their lives were originally ended.

Uchū-Hen: Fighting HatchiyackEdit

The heroes track Dr. Raichi down to the Dark Planet and engage him, discovering that his Ghost Warriors are generated by a machine called Hatchiyack, a device powered by the hatred of the Tuffles. It is also revealed that Dr. Raichi is a Ghost Warrior himself, generated by Hatchiyack. The heroes manages to destroy Dr. Raichi, but he re-materializes himself. Fortunately, Vegeta manages to vaporize Dr. Raichi preventing him from re-materializing again. However, Dr. Raichi's spite towards the Saiyans causes Hatchiyack to exceed its limit and appear in a powerful android body, whose power match or perhaps even exceed Broly's according to Goku. Hatchiyack devastates the heroes until the Saiyans, after having transformed into their Super Saiyan states, combine their powers together into one massive wave of energy; with Goku using Super Kamehameha, Gohan using Super Masenko, Trunks using Burning Attack, Vegeta using Final Flash (but fired it in a Maximum Flasher-style), and Piccolo using Special Beam Cannon (Piccolo participates in the final struggle only in the 2010 version), thus ending the threat of the Ghost Warriors. Before the entire planet exploded due to the fierce battle, Goku and the Z Fighters were transported back to Earth via Instant Transmission.

ProductionEdit

Original releaseEdit

Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans was released following the Famicom game of the same name, Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku, in the form of two VHS cassettes dubbed "Official Visual Guides" as the OVA served as a sort of "animated walkthrough" for the game. In 1994, footage from the OVA was turned into two video games for the Playdia console (Chikyū-Hen and Uchū-Hen).

2010 releaseEdit

Some arguments about gaining the license to release it on DVD in English started when news about Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! was first heard. However, this became a reality when an English version was announced to be releasing with Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2. According to Namco Bandai, "The exclusive new feature entitled Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans is a completely reconstructed, re-scripted and re-edited version of an original Japanese episode that has never been released in the U.S or Canada, offering something unique to fans of the series. Everyone who buys the game can watch this exclusive anime straight out of the box. Namco Bandai has confirmed that the footage will not be English dubbed but instead have English subtitles.

Some scenes were deleted and other were changed from the original movie. The Z Fighters never encounter and fight the monsters guarding the Destron Gas machines. There are machines in Satan City and Jingle Village. When the Z Fighters find the Destron Gas machine, the Saiyans are in base form, and only Vegeta transforms to destroy the machine, the others transform for the fight against the Ghost Warriors. In the original, they are all already in Super Saiyan form. Also, it is Bulma who comes help the Z Fighters after they are pinned down by the Ghost Warriors (scene not present in the original, except for the in game scenes when the player loses the fight), instead of Goku being helped by King Kai. Goku does not fight God Guardon on Raichi's planet, instead travelling through space to get to him. During the original movie, Piccolo did not join in on the Beam Struggle against Hatchiyack, and he did not bring the Senzu Beans, shortening a bit the fight.

Releases on Home MediaEdit

The original was released on VHS in 1993, but only in Japan. The OVA later appeared in the Japanese version of the Dragon Boxes in 2003. The 2010 remake also appears on a bonus DVD that bundled with the March 2012 issue of Saikyō Jump and which also contains the 2011 anime adaptation of Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock.

Timeline placementEdit

The storyline of this movie is supposed to take place during the ten-day wait prior to the Cell Games, after the events of Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (as Goku states that Hatchiyack might be even stronger than Broly). In the OVA, Vegeta can be seen performing the Final Flash, a technique that he developed in his Super Vegeta form against Cell's perfect form (which occurred in the episode 146, "Trunks Ascends", maintaining continuity), Goku is still alive (his death occurred during the Cell Games), and Bulma even wears the clothing from before the Cell Games when she was repairing Android 16.^[2]

The movie fits here in the timeline but, like in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Gohan and Goku are seen outside their Super Saiyan forms, which they were supposed to not transform out of during that period. Also, after training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in the series, Trunks lets his hair grow, but in the OVA, Trunks has short hair (his hair was long in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan). The notion of Turles and Slug having menaced Earth at some point is a slight issue, as their respective movies seem more difficult to fit in continuity.

TriviaEdit

• Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans establishes the history of the Saiyans arriving on Planet Plant and taking over of Planet Plant/Vegeta (basically expanding on the story told in the anime).
• The concept of a villainous Tuffle out for revenge on the Saiyan race would later turn up again in the form of the villainous Machine Mutant, Baby.
• Outside DBZ video games, Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans is the only time Frieza and Cooler are shown interacting. This is also the only film where Vegeta confronts Frieza while in his Super Saiyan form (Goku and Trunks have already done so, while an adult Gohan confronts Frieza in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn). It is also the first and only time Future Trunks and Vegeta encounter the villains Turles and Lord Slug, as well as the first and only time Future Trunks encounters Cooler.
• Against the Ghost Warriors, the battles are as follows: Gohan vs. Turles, Piccolo vs. Lord Slug, Trunks vs. Frieza and Goku vs. Cooler. It is interesting to note that Vegeta is not shown during this scene, as there are not enough villains to go around. He is shown shortly after the fight sequences, looking disheveled from battle (despite not being shown fighting) when it is revealed that the Ghost Warriors are harder to defeat than their original counterparts, and later when he provides a finishing attack on the Ghost Warrior Cooler after Bulma restores the Z Fighters' use of ki with a neutralizing agent for the Destron Gas.
• Even though it was stated in the original version that Ghost Warriors can only be defeated by the same way they were killed when they were alive, none of the Ghost Warriors are defeated in that way.
• The remastered version featured in Raging Blast 2 is the first Dragon Ball Z movie with Dragon Ball Z Kai music.
• In the 2010 remake, the Destron Gas machine in West City makes a sound similar to the 8 bit sound of the world map from the original NES/Famicom game.

GalleryEdit

1993 versionEdit

First 1993 VHS Second 1993 VHS Mr. Popo tells Goku and Gohan about the Destron Gas Machines Goku charges a Kamehameha Goku tries to fire his Kamehameha Piccolo tries to fire his Special Beam Cannon Super Saiyan Gohan charges a Masenko Gohan tries to fire his Masenko at Kinkarn Gohan and Mr. Popo at Capsule Corporation Dr. Brief Gohan and Bulma Gohan and Goku Kinkarn Kinkarn and Arbee Goku blocks the monsters' attack Gohan punches an Arbee in the stomach Gohan punches an Arbee in the face Piccolo and Goku after defeating monsters in West City Gohan is shocked The machine at Grand Apron Ponkarn Goku destroys the machine Gohan in the Western Desert Gohan sees Jiku's punch coming Gohan dodges Jiku's punch Gohan punches Jiku in the stomach Gohan about to destroy the machine Kawazu Gure appears Ghost Warrior Frieza appears Ghost Warrior in front of the Z Fighters Ghost Warrior Lord Slug Gohan and Piccolo A Great Ape (flashback) The Saiyans (flashback) King Vegeta (flashback) Vegeta fires a Super Energy Wave Volley Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan Vegeta about to kill Dr. Raichi Vegeta firing a Final Flash at Dr. Raichi Dr. Raichi hit by the Final Flash Z Fighters while Hatchiyack appears King Kai Goku while Hatchiyack appears Bubbles and King Kai Vegeta using Final Flash again Hatchiyack performs his Ultimate Blow on Vegeta Hatchiyack knocks Gohan while fighting with Goku Hatchiyack performs the Rapid Charge Counter Gohan beaten by Hatchiyack Hatchiyack pummels Gohan Goku uses a Super Kamehameha Goku charges the Super Kamehameha Goku fires his Super Kamehameha Future Trunks firing his Burning Attack Z Fighters firing their blasts at Hatchiyack Add a photo to this galleryAdd a photo to this gallery

2010 remakeEdit

Tuffles Tuffles shooting Great Apes to no avail Great Apes Dr. Raichi's hate being absorbed Tuffle's hate going to Hatchiyack Dr. Raichi Goku and Piccolo Gohan and Bulma The Destron Gas Machine Vegeta charges a Photon Bomber Vegeta throws the Photon Bomber Trunks about to destroy Frieza Goku Lord Slug Frieza and Turles Frieza and Cooler Frieza and Turles both charging energy blasts Turles' defeat The Z Fighters attack Dr. Raichi Goku powering up Gohan powering up Future Trunks powering up Vegeta powering up Goku Goku and the Z-Fighters pummel Raichi's barrier again Goku prepares a Super Kamehameha Raichi's barrier is destroyed Vegeta fires a Final Flash at Dr. Raichi Gohan Hatchiyack appears Hatchiyack performs his Ultimate Blow on Vegeta Vegeta charges a Final Flash Vegeta's Final Flash Hatchiyack, unaffected Hatchiyack performs the Revenger Charge Hatchiyack fires the Revenger Cannon Vegeta, moments before being hit by the Revenger Cannon Hatchiyack grabs Gohan Gohan is thrown to the floor Goku attempts to intervene, only to get knocked away Hatchiyack smashes Gohan through the floor Hatchiyack prepares his second Revenger Cannon Hatchiyack charges his second Revenger Cannon Hatchiyack fires his second Revenger Cannon Goku knocks the attack away from Gohan Hatchiyack charges his third Revenger Cannon Hatchiyack fires his third Revenger Cannon Piccolo is hit by the third Revenger Cannon Piccolo damaged by Hatchiyack's attack Gohan angered by Piccolo's injury Hatchiyack charges another Revenger Cannon Piccolo helplessly watches Hatchiyack Hatchiyack Gohan charges Hatchiyack Future Trunks kicks Hatchiyack, canceling his attack and saving Gohan Hatchiyack quickly uses his Revenger Charge again Gohan and Future Trunks attack Hatchiyack Hatchiyack pummels Gohan Hatchiyack pummels Future Trunks Hatchiyack simultaneously pummels Gohan and Future Trunks Hatchiyack stares down Goku after defeating Gohan and Future Trunks Hatchiyack attempts a fourth Revenger Cannon (for the third time) Hatchiyack fires his rapid-fire version of the Revenger Cannon (the Energy Wave Combo) Goku avoids the attack Hatchiyack's Energy Wave Combo causes a chain of explosions Hatchiyack dodges Goku Gohan Gohan and Future Trunks Hatchiyack, enraged at Goku Goku charging a Kamehameha Hatchiyack charges his final Revenger Cannon Vegeta charges his Final Flash Future Trunks prepares the Burning Attack Gohan charges a Masenko Piccolo charges a Special Beam Cannon Goku fires the Kamehameha Vegeta fires the Final Flash Future Trunks fires the Burning Attack Piccolo before firing the Special Beam Cannon Gohan about to fire the Masenko Hatchiyack, before firing the Revenger Cannon The Z Fighters struggle against Hatchiyack's Revenger Goku Hatchiyack Vegeta Piccolo Gohan Future Trunks Hatchyiack is destroyed Dr. Raichi is destroyed along with his creation Dark Planet begins exploding Goku, after Hatchiyack's death Goku uses the Instant Transmission to escape Dark Planet explodes. The Z Fighters back on Earth A grinning King Kai Goku and Gohan flying home Concept art for the Tuffles Concept art for Great Apes Concept art for Goku Concept art for Vegeta Concept art for Gohan Concept art for Future Trunks Concept art for Piccolo Concept art for Frieza Concept art for Cooler Concept art for Lord Slug Concept art for Turles Concept art for Dr. Raichi Hatchiyack concept art Concept art for the Destron Gas Machine Concept art for various things Add a photo to this galleryAdd a photo to this gallery

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