New Patreon Goal: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans for Dragon Ball Dissection

Okay, so I've been putting out feelers lately in regards to whether or not I should cover Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans on Dragon Ball Dissection. I'd never had plans to cover it until people began expressing interest in me doing so. But due to an overwhelmingly positive response to the polls I made, I have decided to consider adding it to the Dragon Ball Dissection review list. As such, I have made it my first ever Patreon goal. If I reach $800 a month, I will create it. Maybe you're wondering why my covering it would even be in question. If so, the statement below is for you. Thanks for reading, and thanks for your support!

Create a Dragon Ball Dissection episode on Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans and ...Super Saiyans!

As you all know, Dragon Ball Dissection has evolved over the years. I famously stated in my introduction video that it was only covering the original manga storyline. And while those episodes still stand as the core of the series, the show has expanded to include the various movie and television projects adapted from the franchise.

Even so, there have been franchise elements I've never had plans to review. I've skipped over things like the movie recap television special, Goku's Fire Safety, and any and all video games. Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans is a complicated example. People often refer to it as an OVA (original video animation), which technically isn't untrue, but more accurately, it's an animated dramatization/strategy guide for a video game. Dragon Ball video games represents a can of worms I have resolutely stayed away from. It's hard enough making sense of the various continuities as it is without throwing in all the random things video games have been creating for decades. When I'm picking apart "Beastmen Drugs" I've gone further down the rabbit hole of irrelevancy than is probably healthy.

As such, it's something I never planned to cover. However, as I get closer to its release, I've received more and more comments asking about it. I recently put polls up on the YouTube community tab and Twitter, and large numbers of people overwhelmingly voted their interest in me covering it.

While it is not part of either the television continuity or movie franchise, it does draw heavily on both. Its plot, such as it is, of a Tsufruian scientist building a living weapon to take revenge on Saiyans, comes directly from backstory included in the animated version of Dragon Ball Z. And that exact idea appears to have been dusted off and reworked a few years later for Dragon Ball GT. That alone could make a compelling argument that it deserves to be included in the Dragon Ball Dissection pantheon.

Then there's simply the fact of its bizarre uniqueness. The cast and animators came together to make a two-part video game adaptation in 1993. That's crazy. Even crazier was how it was remade (and retitled) years later, and that the two versions are very different from each other. And there's so much confusion as to what this even is that maybe another voice needs to help clarify its position in the franchise.

Honestly, this was so off my radar until people started bringing it up I'd never even bothered to watch it before until last week. I certainly wasn't even going to bring up the possibility until I was sure there was anything here worth reviewing. So I watched the original, the remake, and some Famicom game footage. While it's pretty thin and middling, there's certainly a lot of material and background that could make for an interesting episode.

As such, I've decided to let you guys decide by making this video my first Patreon goal. When we hit it, I'll cover Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (and Super Saiyans) in a single episode of Dragon Ball Dissection.

Thanks as always for your support!