James Marsters: Our Dragonball is Not Like Your Dragonball

The Dragonball movie site DBmovie has translated an interview with James Marsters, Piccolo himself from the upcoming live-action “Dragonball” movie from James Wong, in which Marsters explains the difference between the movie and the original anime story. And no, you non-fans of the movie won’t like what he has to say, but those with an open mind may understand. Or not. Hey, it’s your dragonball, I suppose it’s entirely up to you whether you want to continually dump on the movie or just be happy that someone is actually making a movie out of it. Either/or, I suppose.

Here’s what Marsters said to Jump Square magazine — read the rest of it over at dbmovie:

What is the difference between the original and the live-action movie ?

JM: Definitely the story of this movie is different from the original. But it’s a necessary change because we need to condense the long story of the original for a movie. For example, some characters in the original don’t appear in the movie. And we try to give it a more gritty and graphic (realistic) feeling.

Though there are differences between the two, I think it is all right if the core part of Dragonball remains. I let my son watch the anime’s Dragonball, DBZ and DBGT since he was eight years old. At first, I thought it was too violent, but I realized this is the best show for training to become a true man. True men need not to flaunt themselves. Their calm, gentle and modest but when it comes to the crunch they don’t hesitate to kill the enemy, and I think that’s what Goku is.

Goku is a real man. I know my son received such a message and applied it to his own life. My son doesn’t use violence to others, but he isn’t afraid of his own anger. I think it’s an important thing.

“True men need not to flaunt themselves.”? Obviously the interview was translated from Japanese, which sort of explains why Marsters talks like one of those Shaolin monks from the TV show “Kung Fu” there towards the end.