Shonen Jump offering DragonBall manga for free download!?

[SSj_Rambo]

Edit: Can this be considered "canon coloring"?

And I would definitely NOT consider this "canon coloring",

What exactly is canon coloring? Toriyama changes the colors of uniforms so much, I dunno which to accept and which to ignore. For example;
Kid Goku's first gi has been either blue or orange.

What we mean by "canonical coloring" is 'are the colors here, colors that we can say really are how these things are colored'. Like how we don't say that before Vegeta and Nappa came to Earth their uniforms were colored the same as in the anime, because the anime colors are not "Toriyama certified". For me at least, colors can only be canon when they are done by Toriyama, or someone under his supervision, or with his blessing.

Can somebody mirror these... please.

Well, that's a little tedius. One would need to hit Print screen and edit around the actual Manga ('cause you can't copy it out of the browser).

I would do it myself if I could, but unfortunately I can't even install stuff on my pc. I love the new colours, I would cream my pants if they did this to all the manga. I really don't think the other colours are anything special, but that's my opinion, what do I know.

I hope someone is nice enough to spare sometime and share this with everyone who doesn't have the browser thing.

I'll do it as soon as I can, but I'm extremely busy these days with finals and football; but in case anyone wants to do it sooner, here's the free software I use.

@ JulieYBM: This software lets you take screen captures of only the area and shape you want, so you can eliminate the tedious cropping; and it's a little higher resolution than your standard print-screen.

They wouldn't be doing the same for One Piece, would they?

No, currently they're only doing this for Dragonball, Medaka Box and Akaboshi. But maybe in the future...

[Tyro]

Chapter 2 is out now.

[Chuquita]

Chapter 2 looks nice. I could really get used to the computer-coloring...


But will they color even the chapters that were originally only in black and white?

[SSj_Rambo]

Awesome! They put this one up pretty quick, and the first chapter is still up too!

Here's a comparison I made between Tyro's Kanzenban scan and the online version:



And it seems like Dragonball is scheduled to be streamed this month (see left panel). Only episodes 1-5 are scheduled, but they are apparently doing re-airings!!

[Tweaker]

You guys mentioned that this uses the same viewer program as the special released late last November, right? I seem to recall Acid_Reign reverse-engineering the data format used to access data remotely from the Jump servers to get the full quality version of the special's video footage; wouldn't it be possible to get the raw image files for this release the same way? It beats using screen capture programs and manual image saving, in any case, which I've noticed tends to be open to user error (JPEG artifacts, mainly).

[Tanooki Kuribo]

But will they color even the chapters that were originally only in black and white?

Yea, they already began doing that. It looks pretty cool too.

[SSJ2bardock]

I like the more hand-drawn look of the originals over this new age computer fancy stuff.

[coinmanmat]

It seems that Shonen Jump is offering downloads of single chapters of a select few popular manga series', including Dragonball!! It's available in both English and Japanese, but since I don't own the first chapter, I'm not sure if this is the same translation as VIZ, or an in-house one, like how they handled the subbing of the recent Jump Anime Tour Special. The manga comes in its original color, like the Kanzenban, but the colors and lines are much more vibrant, and obviously touched up by a computer. I don't know how long these will stay up, or if we'll see more chapters, but this is really cool for those who don't own this chapter, or want to see it in Japanese.



To view these, you have to first install the JumpLand Browser, which most of you probably already did, for the free streaming of the Jump Anime Tour Special. Here is the page where you can download the manga in English, and in original Japanese. (The downloads are on the left section.)

This all seems to be a part of Shonen Jump's website's "re-vamp", which includes some nice Dragonball themed layouts:

Ok that site is actually the revamped English Weekly Shonen Jump site (formerly known as Jumpland) It shares the same URL as the English Shonen Jump site and the Dragonball Manga that is there will permanently be there with a new chapter every friday. It is however the Viz translation (I bet none of you know Viz is actually owned by Shueisha). However the manga does appear to be uncensored (which is odd for a Viz translation) because it shows A few scenes where Goku is naked.
EDIT: Chapter 2 is up

[shotkeeper]

Can someone please upload them to Megaupload or something?
Hope it's not asked for too much.

Also what is this, Toei trying to revive Dragonball or something?

Untill now it's really not working: Kai flop, real live movie flop, games flop IMO.

[Hujio]

Can someone please upload them to Megaupload or something?
Hope it's not asked for too much.

Also what is this, Toei trying to revive Dragonball or something?

Untill now it's really not working: Kai flop, real live movie flop, games flop IMO.

Well, Toei has nothing to do with the manga, so I doubt it. And I wouldn't say Shueisha is trying to revive it, because they've been doing this with other manga for a while now, but only in Japanese.

Why is everyone assuming DragonBall Kai is a flop? It is getting good ratings in Japan. I mean, it hasn't even come close to falling out of the top ten rated anime shows since it began airing. In fact, I don't think it has dropped lower than fifth place. It has even beat out One Piece a couple of times. Is there any evidence to the contrary that it's a flop, or are people saying this based on their judgment of not liking it, and assuming everyone else in the world agrees with them?

[Rod]

Can someone please upload them to Megaupload or something?
Hope it's not asked for too much.

Also what is this, Toei trying to revive Dragonball or something?

Untill now it's really not working: Kai flop, real live movie flop, games flop IMO.

Well, Toei has nothing to do with the manga, so I doubt it. And I wouldn't say Shueisha is trying to revive it, because they've been doing this with other manga for a while now, but only in Japanese.

Why is everyone assuming DragonBall Kai is a flop? It is getting good ratings in Japan. I mean, it hasn't even come close to falling out of the top ten rated anime shows since it began airing. In fact, I don't think it has dropped lower than fifth place. It has even beat out One Piece a couple of times. Is there any evidence to the contrary that it's a flop, or are people saying this based on their judgment of not liking it, and assuming everyone else in the world agrees with them?

Plus the movie isn't theirs.

Bulma's hair is blue...I hadn't noticed, guess this is difinitly not canon coloring

[jda95]

Bulma's hair is blue...I hadn't noticed, guess this is difinitly not canon coloring

Actually, in the first chapter, Bulma's hair was blue, but it was later changed to purple.

[SSj_Rambo]

@ desirecampbell, SSJ2bardock, shotkeeper and everyone else:

Here are the images, manually saved for you, by yours truly! Now that it's the weekend, I decided to tackle this, and when I discovered a nice little feature on Fastone Capture that eliminates the cropping and re-sizing steps, this actually didn't take too long! Now, you all have to help remind me to take these files down once Jump removes them from their site(s), OK?

DragonBall Chapter 001 [Japanese]
DragonBall Chapter 001 [English]
DragonBall Chapter 002 [Japanese] ~Chapter No Longer Available~
DragonBall Chapter 002 [English] ~Chapter No Longer Available~

Only chapter one? /zzsnore

Wake me when they have something of significance.

What would be something of "significance" to you?

You guys mentioned that this uses the same viewer program as the special released late last November, right? I seem to recall Acid_Reign reverse-engineering the data format used to access data remotely from the Jump servers to get the full quality version of the special's video footage; wouldn't it be possible to get the raw image files for this release the same way? It beats using screen capture programs and manual image saving, in any case, which I've noticed tends to be open to user error (JPEG artifacts, mainly).

Here's that thread. If anyone wants to try and use the same tricks here, that would be cool, but I personally am not that desperate. As long as Jump didn't design their own image encoding format, it should be possible; though it would probably have to be done through the .sva files that the chapters come downloaded in, as apposed to through the web.

It beats using screen capture programs and manual image saving, in any case, which I've noticed tends to be open to user error (JPEG artifacts, mainly).

I saved my images as .png's with original quality intact. And the software I used for this completely eliminates the cropping and re-sizing steps... which is AMAZING!!

It seems that Shonen Jump is offering downloads of single chapters of a select few popular manga series', including Dragonball!! It's available in both English and Japanese, but since I don't own the first chapter, I'm not sure if this is the same translation as VIZ, or an in-house one, like how they handled the subbing of the recent Jump Anime Tour Special. The manga comes in its original color, like the Kanzenban, but the colors and lines are much more vibrant, and obviously touched up by a computer. I don't know how long these will stay up, or if we'll see more chapters, but this is really cool for those who don't own this chapter, or want to see it in Japanese.

*Snip*

To view these, you have to first install the JumpLand Browser, which most of you probably already did, for the free streaming of the Jump Anime Tour Special. Here is the page where you can download the manga in English, and in original Japanese. (The downloads are on the left section.)

This all seems to be a part of Shonen Jump's website's "re-vamp", which includes some nice Dragonball themed layouts:

*Snip*

*Snip*

*Snip*

Ok that site is actually the revamped English Weekly Shonen Jump site (formerly known as Jumpland) It shares the same URL as the English Shonen Jump site and the Dragonball Manga that is there will permanently be there with a new chapter every friday. It is however the Viz translation (I bet none of you know Viz is actually owned by Shueisha). However the manga does appear to be uncensored (which is odd for a Viz translation) because it shows A few scenes where Goku is naked.

Isn't the other site I linked to the Japanese site? And how do you know they will be there permanently??

[bkev]

Getting a "file not found" for chapter 2 in English, but chapter one's fine. Just a heads up.

[SSj_Rambo]

Getting a "file not found" for chapter 2 in English, but chapter one's fine. Just a heads up.

Hmm, seems to be working fine now. Is anyone else having problems?

And it looks like they plan on including another series in their online manga collection... only I have no clue what it is:

[Chuquita]

Getting a "file not found" for chapter 2 in English, but chapter one's fine. Just a heads up.

Hmm, seems to be working fine now. Is anyone else having problems?

And it looks like they plan on including another series in their online manga collection... only I have no clue what it is:

That's Luffy. *Points to silhouette*.

Unless there's some other brimmed-hat-donning main character of a Jump manga series that I don't know about. ^^;


Just watch it turn out to not be Luffy now. XD

[SSj_Rambo]

Getting a "file not found" for chapter 2 in English, but chapter one's fine. Just a heads up.

Hmm, seems to be working fine now. Is anyone else having problems?

And it looks like they plan on including another series in their online manga collection... only I have no clue what it is:

That's Luffy. *Points to silhouette*.

Unless there's some other brimmed-hat-donning main character of a Jump manga series that I don't know about. ^^;

Yeah, I sort of thought so, but was too lazy to look up an image of him and double check.

Anyway, I tried using Microsoft Word to read the encoding of the packet files that the chapters come in and somehow figure out how to extract just the images, and got stuck here:

[Herms]

Just watch it turn out to not be Luffy now. XD

It turns out to be someone with a ring around their head :p.

[darkhawk5]

@SSj_Rambo Thanks so much for the download links

[Cold Skin]

It's a cool initiative to put the manga as an online format. And it includes colors, though they're not exactly the same than the Kanzenban ones (thanks for the comparison Ssj_Rambo)!

As far as I'm concerned, I still prefer the Kanzenban colors, especially regarding the sky and background. It really has an amazing artistic feel to me to see this painting-like colors. I've never checked out this info, but from what I understood, Akira Toriyama did the coloring himself at the time, by painting the pictures, is that right?