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France Celebrates $7 Billion Dragon Ball Z Theme Park Paid For By Saudi Arabia: ‘You Know My Passion For Manga’

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France Celebrates $7 Billion Dragon Ball Z Theme Park Paid For By Saudi Arabia: ‘You Know My Passion For Manga’

First, it bought golf, then Electronic Arts, and now Saudi Arabia is paying $7 billion to build a Dragon Ball Z theme park in France. It will be the second one in the world, with construction on the first already underway in Qiddiya City. Emmanuel Macron is ecstatic about the deal. “You know my passion for manga,” he wrote on X. “You also know my determination to attract to France the investments that create jobs and make the most ambitious projects possible.”

The plan was announced right after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the French capital today. Why, you might ask? “The idea ​was born after French President Emmanuel Macron and the Saudi ​crown prince discovered a shared enthusiasm for Dragon Ball Z during Macron’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2025,” reports Reuters. The journalist-dismembering prince is just like us!

A Dragon Ball theme park is in the works in France.
Developed in partnership with Qiddiya, which is set to open a similar park in Riyadh.https://t.co/oI94QSdOEV pic.twitter.com/Tk2CpyAPNX

It will be one of three theme parks in Cergy-Pontoise, just northwest of Paris. Macron is touting the deal as a project that will create 22,000 jobs. Construction will take several years, however, and there’s no set date for the parks to open. “Nothing like this has been seen since Disneyland Paris,” he tweeted. “A new global destination. Here, in France.”

It’s the latest example of Saudi Arabia leveraging its sovereign wealth fund to insert itself on the global cultural stage.


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