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Viz’s “Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques” English Release Bumps From April to May 2025

Published by VegettoEX17 March 2025, 12:05 PM EDTComment

Viz’s previously-announced English translation of Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques has been bumped slightly from its originally-intended 22 April 2025 release to a new date of 13 May 2025.

The upcoming release is an English-translated version of the 2023 Japanese book which includes a variety of career reflections, advice for upcoming artists, and interviews with colleagues from legendary editor Kazuhiko Torishima. Alongside this wealth of content, Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques includes an interview with (and an original cover illustration by) the late and great Akira Toriyama:

Kazuhiko Torishima is the sixth editor-in-chief of Japan’s biggest manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump! He is one of Japan’s leading editors, having discovered and nurtured great manga artists such as Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball, Masakazu Katsura of Video Girl Ai, and Koji Inada of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, and further transforming the manga business by expanding the crossover of manga, anime, and video games.

“Dr. Mashirito” is a scientist who was modeled after Kazuhiko Torishima by Akira Toriyama in Dr. Slump, and the character later became Kazuhiko Torishima’s nickname in real life, too. This book is the only place to discover Kazuhiko Torishima’s “Torishima Method,” an approach to making comics that will give you the mindset needed to become a manga artist!

Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques is available for pre-order on Amazon, currently with a 10% discount from its $25.00 MSRP.

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Cast Guide Overhauled and Updated

Published by Hujio13 March 2025, 1:03 PM EDTComment

Since the initial launch of Kanzenshuu back in April 2012, our “Cast Guide” has remained virtually unchanged, with only the database consistently receiving updates. It was truly one of the last holdovers from the “pre-merger” times; a straight-up copy of how it had appeared on Kanzentai, with only minimal cast profiles listed from the first phase of Dragon Ball Kai. Well no more! After 13 years, the guide has finally been completely overhauled and reorganized to follow the current structure of most of our guides.

You will find information on cast credit structures, more organized cast profiles, and of course our large database of cast credits, which has also been updated to include original video game characters, cast credits from the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, and is now current up through the last episode of Dragon Ball Daima. In addition, we have added filtering functionality — which you may have already noticed went live a few months ago — to make it easier to view credits from a specific series, production medium (movies, TV, video games, etc.), or special feature.

The cast profiles have also been updated and reorganized between the legacy (“original”) and new/current voice cast. You will see we have also opted for more of a listing approach, rather than dedicated in-depth profile pages. This was primarily done to make the profiles easier to maintain and keep up-to-date. However, each profile does include links to any agency profiles and Wikipedia pages available, where this in-depth information already exists.

So with that, head on over and check it all out!

Check out the new Cast Guide

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Podcast Episode #0517

Published by VegettoEX12 March 2025, 10:31 AM EDTComment

Show Description

Episode #0517! Mike, Ken, and Ajay review the complete “Dragon Ball Daima” television series! Over these 20 episodes, what new concepts are introduced/reintroduced, what lore conflicts are we still reeling from, how did the art and animation hold up with such a prolonged production timeframe… and did we like it?

How to Listen

Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify or YouTube. We invite you discuss this episode on our forum.

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Translation Update: “Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!” Image #87

Published by VegettoEX05 March 2025, 10:40 AM ESTCommentToyotarō Drew It

Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his (belated) February 2025 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Piroshki and Karoni, anime-only characters from the Cell Games:

PIROSHKI AND KARONI

Disciples of Satan that took part in the Cell Games

Both characters debuted in Dragon Ball Z episode 176 as disciples of Mr. Satan who take on Cell, only to be immediately defeated. Karoni (カロニ) likely takes his name from part of the word “macaroni” (マカロニ), while Piroshki likely takes his name directly from “pirozhki” (ピロシキ).

Karoni — alongside Mr. Satan’s manager (and likewise-filler-character from the Cell Games) Piza — made a small appearance in the first Dragon Ball Super episode, as well:

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.

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“Dragon Ball Daima” Japanese Home Video Release Coming July 2025

Published by VegettoEX28 February 2025, 11:27 AM ESTCommentDragon Ball Daima

Following today’s Dragon Ball Daima final episode broadcast, the series’ official website detailed various home video releases coming in Japan, all set for release on 02 July 2025:

First-Press Limited Edition Blu-ray Box

¥52,800 yen (tax included)
Four Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes + bonus material)
Illustrated box and three-sided illustrated case
Bonus material includes three 4K UHD Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes in a 4K SDR upscale), a deluxe edition booklet, Demon Ream Sugoroku (board game), sticker, and a set of 7 die-cut pin badges
Bonus deluxe edition booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection

Standard Edition Blu-ray Box

¥30,800 yen (tax included)
Four Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes + bonus material)
Three-sided illustrated case
Bonus booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection

Standard Edition DVD Box

¥28,800 yen (tax included)
Five DVDs (all 20 episodes + bonus material), with a three-sided illustrated case
Three-sided illustrated case
Bonus booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection

Sets will be available for purchase via several retail partners, including Amazon Japan (whose own exclusive version will come packed with additional bonuses, including a shirt and new illustration with acrylic stand).

Dragon Ball Daima — whose broadcast concluded today with its final of 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.

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“Dragon Ball Daima: Adventure Through The Demon Realm” DLC for “Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot” Begins Summer 2025

Published by VegettoEX28 February 2025, 11:00 AM ESTCommentGame Project Z Action RPG

Initially leaked and teased through Steam back-end updates this week, the previously-announced, two-part Dragon Ball Daima DLC expansion for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is set to begin Summer 2025:

Unlike past DLC expansions, the title for this pack remains largely the same between its original Japanese (魔界の大冒険! or “Great Adventure in the Demon Realm!”) and its official English title (“Adventure Through The Demon Realm”). The new trailer also noted that a “Daima Edition” of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will be released, which itself includes access to the two-part expansion. Access to just the Daima pack (covering both parts) is priced at $34.99.

Per the aforementioned Steam listings, “Part 1” is pegged for sometime between July and September this year (falling in line with the “Summer” announcement), while “Part 2” is listed as sometime between January and March 2026:

A splash in last month’s March 2025 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine noted that “Part 1” is set to cover the first eight episodes of the series.

Developed by CyberConnect2 for Bandai Namco, the action role-playing game released 16 January 2020 in Japan and 17 January 2020 internationally on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam). A Nintendo Switch edition came later in September 2021.

Two season passes worth of content — with six individual packs in total — have come out since the game’s release. In the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story. The second season pass includes entries for the original 1990 Bardock television special, the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai, and the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai.

Reviews of the base game, Trunks DLC, Bardock DLC, 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC, and 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC can be found on episodes #0481, #0490, #0497, #0505, and #0509, respectively, of our podcast.

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“Dragon Ball Super” Manga Chapter 104 Released

Published by VegettoEX19 February 2025, 10:57 AM ESTCommentDragon Ball Super

Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s 104th chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services. This special one-shot chapter serves as further-introductory/prequel content to the “Super Hero” arc, which itself already received a three-chapter prologue and three-chapter epilogue beyond the scope of the original 2022 theatrical film.

Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s April 2025 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.

Since the Dragon Ball Super manga went on hiatus last year (following chapter 103 and coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama), the manga’s collected volume release has been at a standstill, with only three chapters worth of material to fill out a volume that otherwise covers four chapters. This release of “chapter 104” fills out that space, and will likely be content that fills out Volume 24, set for release in Japan this April.

Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series completed its run, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and “Super Hero” arcs.

Viz releases free digital chapters of the series upon release as a simultaneous publication, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s 23rd collected volume — which lags behind the Japanese release — is due out this April.

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“Dragon Ball Daima Original Soundtrack” 2-CD Set Releasing March 2025 in Japan

Published by VegettoEX18 February 2025, 3:54 PM ESTCommentDragon Ball Daima

The previously-announced “Dragon Ball Daima Original Soundtrack” — a two-disc set (COCX-42467-8) with “about 70” tunes by composer Kosuke Yamashita — is set for a 19 March 2025 release in Japan via Columbia, priced at ¥4,000:

A full track list has not yet been provided. The set will also see digital distribution.

Amazon Japan has the standard set available for pre-order, as well as a version with an Amazon-exclusive “mega jacket” (a larger print of the cover artwork).

Dragon Ball Daima — currently up to its 18th of 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.

The most recent music release for the Dragon Ball franchise was the official soundtrack for the 2022 theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero as composed by Naoki Satō. A 10th anniversary soundtrack collection for the mobile video game Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle is due out this May.

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Dragon Ball Super Manga Volume 24 Releasing in Japan in April 2025

Published by VegettoEX18 February 2025, 1:18 PM ESTCommentDragon Ball Super

The twenty fourth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 April 2025 in Japan for ¥572 + tax, and should pick up with chapter 101.

Since the Dragon Ball Super manga went on hiatus last year (following chapter 103 and coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama), the manga’s collected volume release has been at a standstill, with only three chapters worth of material to fill out a volume that otherwise covers four chapters. This month’s forthcoming release of “chapter 104” — a one-shot prequel chapter to the “Super Hero arc” (which itself already had original prequel material) — fills out that space, and will likely be content that fills out Volume 24.

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“Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle 10th Anniversary Original Sound Track” Announced For Release in Japan in May 2025

Published by VegettoEX09 February 2025, 1:00 PM EST1 CommentDokkan Battle

The official Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle social media account and Bandai Namco have announced a forthcoming Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle 10th Anniversary Original Sound Track set for release 28 May 2025 in Japan:

This “Limited Edition” release will have a specific pre-order period of 08 February 2025 to 04 March 2025. The 8-CD set containing over 350 individual tracks will retail for ¥9,980 (tax included) and will come packaged with a 12-page special booklet.

The set is available for pre-order via a variety of online stores in Japan — Amazon Japan is available as an option for international orders.

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle has received a small batch of specialized soundtrack releases in Japan which have been given away via lottery to registered participants. This forthcoming 10th Anniversary Original Sound Track marks the first instance of the full collected batch of music being available for standard sale.

Announced back in September 2014, Dokkan Battle — an action/puzzle game — was the first of a modern-era smartphone app initiative for the Dragon Ball franchise. The game eventually made its way worldwide, including a full English localization. The game is available on the iTunes and Google Play stores.

The game regularly participates in April Fools’ Day, with its “Saibai Battle” reskin from 2017 being a particularly notable one. In 2021, Bandai Namco celebrated 350 million downloads of Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle.