
Some of them are better than Champagne out there. MACDONALD: There are really amazing bubbly wines coming from California. HERSHIPS: Christopher Macdonald is publisher and CEO of Anime News Network, which, FYI, is, like, the Rolling Stone or Variety of the anime world. HERSHIPS: But is anime produced outside of Japan, like in India or Korea, still anime?ĬHRISTOPHER MACDONALD: It's a bit like, say, champagne. The industry is now worth more than $23 billion globally, and it's expected to keep growing. It's getting so popular that this traditionally Japanese artform is now being produced outside of Japan. So try to compete with that, "This Is Us." HERSHIPS: It was actually 35 times more popular than the average TV series in the United States. That is the classic Japanese animation like "Pokemon" or "Dragon Ball Z." But unlike Saturday morning cartoons, a lot of adults are also into anime like the recent series "Attack On Titan," which was this really big hit on Netflix. At last Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks and Piccolo return to Earth just as the Dark Planet explodes.(SOUNDBITE OF DROP ELECTRIC SONG, "WAKING UP TO THE FIRE") Hatchiyack devastates the heroes until the Saiyans (after having transformed into their Super Saiyan states) and Piccolo combine their powers together into one massive wave of energy, ending the threat of the Dr. Hatchiyack appears in a powerful android body, whose power is said to match or perhaps even exceed that of Broly, according to Goku. When Vegeta vaporizes Lychee, preventing him from re-materializing, the hate of the last remaining Tuffle causes Hatchiyack to exceed its limit. Lychee is a ghost warrior himself, generated by Hatchiyack. Lychee on the Dark Planet and engage him, discovering that his ghost warriors are generated by a machine called Hatchiyack, a device powered by the Tuffles' hatred for the Saiyans. The barrier is destroyed by Bulma, who also came with the antidote for the Destron gas. It is revealed that these ghost warriors are made of Destron gas and cannot be beaten unless the gas is neutralized. The heroes continue to lose against their foes.

Frieza, Cooler, Turles and Lord Slug appear and engage the heroes one on one. When trying to destroy the final machine, Vegeta discovers that it is protected by an impenetrable energy barrier. The Saiyans, plus Piccolo, only have 72 hours to destroy these machines and find Dr. He creates a machine that will emit Destron, a gas that could destroy all life on Earth.

He now plans to take revenge on the remaining Saiyans, Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, and Gohan. Lychee may be the last of the Tuffle people, a race that was completely wiped some time ago by the Saiyans.
