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Ryusei Nakao has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
1995
Animation · Action

Dragon Ball Super: Broly
2018 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Hulu · Included

Dragon Ball Z
1989 · Series · Voice
Top 6%Crunchyroll · Included

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
1991 · Movie · Voice
Top 15%Crunchyroll · Included

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
2015 · Movie · Voice
Top 16%Crunchyroll · Included

Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
2021 · Movie · Voice
Top 17%Crunchyroll · Included

Ghost Stories
2000 · Series · Voice
Top 37%Prime Video · Included

Earth is peaceful following the Tournament of Power. Realizing that the universes still hold many more strong people yet to see, Goku spends all his days training to reach even greater heights. Then one day, Goku and Vegeta are faced by a Saiyan called 'Broly' who they've never seen before. The Saiyans were supposed to have been almost completely wiped out in the destruction of Planet Vegeta, so what's this one doing on Earth? This encounter between the three Saiyans who have followed completely different destinies turns into a stupendous battle, with even Frieza (back from Hell) getting caught up in the mix.
Dir. Tatsuya Nagamine · With Masako Nozawa, Aya Hisakawa, Ryo Horikawa

Now happily married and with a son, martial arts champion Goku must defend Earth from a series of extraterrestrial invaders bent on destruction.
With Masako Nozawa, Ryo Horikawa, Toshio Furukawa

as Chilled / Frieza (voice) · Voice
A spin-off scenario taking place after the events of the TV special Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku, in which Bardock survives the destruction of Planet Vegeta and is sent into the past, combating Frieza's ancestor Chilled and turning into a Super Saiyan.
Dir. Yoshihiro Ueda · With Masako Nozawa, Ryusei Nakao, Houko Kuwashima

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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. His only wish is to eradicate the last remaining Saiyans.
Dir. Yoshihiro Ueda · With Masako Nozawa, Ryo Horikawa, Takeshi Kusao

After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.
Dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto · With Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Mayumi Tanaka

One peaceful day on Earth, two remnants of Frieza's army named Sorbet and Tagoma arrive searching for the Dragon Balls with the aim of reviving Frieza. They succeed, and Frieza subsequently seeks revenge on the Saiyans.
Dir. Tadayoshi Yamamuro · With Masako Nozawa, Ryo Horikawa, Ryusei Nakao

as Khristós (voice) · Voice
In the first anime film of the Saint Seiya series, Seiya and the gang must defeat mysterious Ghost Knights to save the world from the pending resurrection of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos!
Dir. Kouzou Morishita · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hideyuki Hori

as Mito Avatar (Voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
Asuna Yuuki had never played online games until accidentally putting on the NerveGear for Sword Art Online, the world’s first VRMMORPG. She soon finds herself and other players trapped inside a game, where if a player dies in the game, they die in the real world. As she continues to live on in this world where death is always a step away, a solitary swordsman named Kirito appears before her.
Dir. Ayako Kono · With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Inori Minase

as Freeza
In this OVA, Goku and his friends pose questions for the viewers about the Dragon Ball series.
With Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Hiromi Tsuru

Bardock, Son Goku's father, is a low-ranking Saiyan soldier who was given the power to see into the future by the last remaining alien on a planet he just destroyed. He witnesses the destruction of his race and must now do his best to stop Frieza's impending massacre.
Dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto · With Masako Nozawa, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Yuko Mita

When nearby construction disturbs a spiritual resting place, its disgruntled denizens do what any supernatural beings would do after a rude awakening: they terrorize the local school. And that means it’s up to a scruffy band of young ghostbusters to expel their satanic schoolmates before everyone gets sent to permanent detention! So join Satsuki, her crybaby brother, the resident class stud, the school nerd and "physical researcher," a born-again beauty, and a resentful, demon-possessed cat in the funniest, scariest school you’ve ever enrolled in.
With Tomoko Kawakami, Kotono Mitsuishi, Kumi Sakuma
The beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages to defeat the monster. She, just like this werewolf, is part of the next step in human evolution: humans who can mutate into beast-like monsters and then mercilessly terrorise civilisation. Unlike the other devil beasts, however, she can retain her humanity, which is her undoing because Lan Asuka is a high-ranking employee of the government and of the “Anti-Beast Special Squad”, which wants to abuse her powers and train her to mercilessly hunt down her own species. Caught between these extremes and her weak self, the question arises: what fate will Jun meet? Will she ever be able to decide it for herself?
With Junko Iwao, Kisho Taniyama, Hochu Otsuka
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