Dragon Ball Z: The Fall of Men
2015 · 29m · Francia
Directed by Yohan Faure
Genres: action, animation, sci-fi
Future Trunks faces Cell in a world devastated by the perfect android, where Goku and his friends are dead and only Vegeta and Bulma's son can save the Earth.
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Everyone else sees fan art; Faure sees *elegy*—he takes the most overstuffed, commercially soulless franchise and strips it down to a genuinely mythic last stand, proving that subversion lives in tone, not just premise.
Formally situated in the lineage of anime's darker reckoning with its own violence (Akira, Perfect Blue), Faure's 29 minutes demonstrate careful stewardship of the source material's visual language while achieving a tonal register the original never attempted.
The decision to hold on Trunks' face in near-silence after the final blow—letting the weight of solitude replace spectacle—is the entire film, and it works because everything before it earns that restraint.