Ready for a little rest and relaxation, the Straw Hat Pirates set off to Omatsuri Island -- the Grand Line's only pleasure island resort -- to enjoy spas and beauty salons, nightlife filled with beauties, and exquisite cuisine. So why do they end up with the "Ordeal of Hell" instead?! There’s something fishy about the island and its inhabitants, and it’s not just the local marine life. The bonds and loyalty of the crew will be put to the test as they try to survive their vacation... Grand Line-style.
Simon lives a boring life in the underground village of Jeeha, where his main job day in and day out is to dig tunnels. His close friend Kamina, however, longs to bust out of their oppressive existence and reach the surface world where open skies and adventure await! One day, during his usual digs, Simon discovers a robot with a big face buried amongst the rocks. No sooner has he shown Kamina his mysterious find when two beings from the surface crash land into Jeeha Village - one is a gun-toting woman calling herself Yoko and the other is a terrifying mecha piloted by a Beastman! Seeing their chance to escape village drudgery, Kamina rallies Simon and Yoko to defeat the invader using their new robot, Lagann. However, upon breaking out onto the surface world, Simon, Kamina, and Yoko encounter enemies more powerful than they could have envisioned. Their fight for adventure just turned into a war for the survival of the human race - will their lust for freedom hold out against such terrible odds?
I say this on the sole purposes of animation and atmosphere. I enjoyed the fighting action in the One Piece movie, and instantly thought on TTGL. The comidiac ramdomness was also a great factor in both.
In a future that never was, Goku has passed away from an illness and all of the Z-fighters, with the exception of Gohan, met their end at the hands of the Androids 17 and 18. Years have passed since then and the Androids have turned everything into chaos. The now grown up Trunks and his master Gohan are the only ones left to fight this menace...
One of DBZ's best specials, The History of Trunks tells an alternate future where Goku died of his viral heart disease and the andoids rule the world.
Like Baron Omatsuri and the secret island, this special is much more serious then the anime it is based off of, telling a grimm future that almost was in DBZ.
Definitively the best DBZ special around, The History of Trunks remains to this day a moving story of inevitiability that like DBZ itself, is unforgetable