Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might - Censorship

Censorship

Funimation's first dub of The Tree of Might was heavily edited for content and length, just like their original dub of Dragon Ball Z:

• In order to spread time for the movie to be a three-part episode; several scenes from the series were added, such as when the Eternal Dragon is summoned, when Turles, his henchmen, and Piccolo make their first appearances in the film, and most of King Kai's scenes.

• Blood was completely edited out in the movie and the violence was toned down as well. For example, scenes where a character was punched or kicked hard were blocked by flashes of light.

• The scene where Turles forces Gohan to transform into an Oozaru by holding his face and forcing him to keep his eyes open was edited, but Turles held him by his shoulders instead.

• The scene where Turles has his foot on top of Goku was edited, but Goku's face under Turles' foot wasn't shown.

• The scenes where Gohan is nude, following his Oozaru detransformation, were edited, but he was covered up by some means, such as adding extended lighting to the scene where Goku catches Gohan after cutting off his tail or adding a digital bush in front of him during the scene where he is awakened by Icarus. They did, however, forget to remove or censor a shot when Gohan is lying naked in Goku's arms, but it is barely noticeable.