DragonBall Z: What Is the Tournament? on AllMovie

In this introductory episode of DragonBall Z's "The Cell Games Saga," futuristic super-android Cell has stopped short of killing Z-Fighter Trunks, offering instead to square off against his opponent in a winner-take-all tournament. In fight, Cell challenges all of the Z-Fighters to take them on -- a challenge that they must accept, lest disaster befall everyone on earth and elsewhere. While the antagonistic Android 16 tries to convince Krillin that he too would like to do battle against his former master Cell, Chi-Chi announces that the best of the warriors, Gohan, cannot join the fray -- because it isn't part of the game plan for the future. Originally telecast in Japan in 1993, "What Is the Tournament" made its first American TV appearance on November 9, 2000.