It’s another week with an unintentional primary focus on manga! Sometimes that’s just how it shakes out. We’re really running the gamut again here with everything from an actual Toriyama series, to a collaboration one-shot, to a spin-off series, to compilation volumes… and let’s not forget that fan manga!

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

• “Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: Ken’s deep-dive into this historically-important piece of fan media continues with summaries of all the main volume contents, and now moves on to its influences and legacy. We actually have some archive material shipping in this week to cite here on the page, so stay tuned for even more…!
• “Cross Epoch“: While its page here on the main site is already pretty content-complete, it made sense to replicate and expand on some of that work for its respective wiki page. In particular, we’ve detailed some of its various (limited!) official English releases from Viz, along with a first-stab at a write-up regarding its legacy.
• “Savings Soldier Cashman (1990 Manga)“: Moving backward from its 1997 reboot manga, here we are where it all began back in V-Jump with Akira Toriyama’s original Savings Soldier Cashman manga. The history of this three-chapter series is fully documented with a bunch of great resources I haven’t seen anywhere else, including early character designs and details on its debut action figure directly from those actual V-Jump issues!
• “Go! Go! Ackman 3 (Cel Comic)“: Last week we shared the Go! Go! Ackman 2 cel comic documentation, so it only made sense to wrap things up with this final one! With this four-chapter comic and the release of the corresponding Super Famicom game, Ackman’s reign of terror(?) finally comes to an end.
• “Dragon Quest Anthology (Manga)“: While doing some final clean-up and research about a few one-shots, I happened upon this short run of Shueisha Jump Remix volumes for a few Dragon Quest series. Short and to the point here, but some necessary citations for additional releases and compilations of these chapters.

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It’s been a month since launch! What a wild ride. We hope everyone’s enjoying all the new stuff and finding cool new things — but if you need some suggestions, here’s another small selection of recent things to check out.

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

• “Dragon Ball release chronology“: Even we keep finding things in the depths of the wiki we forgot we made! We’re big fans of big ol’ “list” pages — things that give a real nice overview of a subject at a quick glance. This page provides a color-coded view of all mainline Dragon Ball releases (e.g., manga chapters, episode broadcasts, volume releases, etc.), and is now up to date with things like Daima and the Dragon Ball Super manga. Just need to get those Dragon Ball GT episodes in here, now…!
• “Bulma (Resident Number TKM118755)“: Sometimes you need to clear your mind with an extremely simple, one-off character write-up.
• “Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO“: Kev is one of our major workhorses behind the scenes, and in addition to a ton of character pages, he’s turned this attention to the latest Sparking! game — really nice overview of characters, forms, and outfits right now (of course with tons more still to add).
• “Go! Go! Ackman 2 (Cel Comic)“: More content in the expanded Akira Toriyama universe! Did you know there was a Go! Go! Ackman sequel comic? Did you know that sequel comic got two sequels of its own to promote the video games?! Here’s the middle one!

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Here we are three weekends post-launch! Everyone’s still plugging away at a million different things — here’s another small selection of cool, recent things to check out.

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

• “Birthday“: After crashing out a bit realizing that people still slogging it over on The Everything App haven’t learned that Goku does not have a set birth date specified anywhere, I put together this comprehensive page listing all traditional (and many non-traditional!) instances of birth dates and birthday celebrations in the franchise. Are we missing any? Let us know!
• “Dragon Quest Monsters+“: This 2000-2003 manga series by Mine Yoshizaki — which actually got an English release a few years back! — is now (basically) fully documented, including all of its individual chapters. There’s a little cleanup work to do with character blurbs (and eventually individual Monthly Shōnen Gangan release dates), but the majority of work is done here.
• “Arale’s Jump Up“: The page for this PC-8001 mkII game now includes a translation of its programmer bio blurb as well as the story/mechanics overview! (Have you checked out that “Additional Franchise Video Games” page…?!)
• “Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: Ken’s comprehensive deep dive into this fan manga’s publication history is basically complete now — check out that timeline! Obviously those top sections still need to be written, but you won’t find a better publication overview of this extremely notable and influential fan manga series anywhere else out there.
• “Dragon Ball Video Game Characters“: There’s been some nice collaboration fleshing out this page listing all the characters that are original to (and oftentimes exclusive to) various Dragon Ball video games, with TheDevilsCorpse really taking the lead here — and speaking of which, have you noticed his awesome original artwork used on the main “Dragon Ball Characters” page…?!

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This has been a particularly non-coding/writing-focused week, with lots of documentation being cross-checked and video game research/screenshots in progress. Sometimes there’s a lot going on, but not necessarily a lot to show for it… but let’s dig in anyway and see what’s new!

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

• “Kidomo“: With the release of Dragon Ball Super manga chapter 104 last year, we finally had resolution to a multi-decade mystery of which exact character the name “Kidomo” applied to. This is a very recent total overhaul of this character’s page, because when it was first written, the manga chapter in question didn’t exist yet!
• “Paikuhan“: After wrapping up some of the Kidomo work, that red “Paikuhan” link was really sticking a thorn in our side. Paikuhan is an interesting character, because he’s a fan-favorite with limited appearances: some TV episodes, a movie, and some other one-offs, along with a manageable amount of video game inclusions. He seemed like the perfect test bed for ironing out what exactly “Appearances” should look like on a character’s wiki page. We’re well along our way here now (all with completely original video game screenshots, including some Carddass scans where necessary!). Overall, this is a pretty solid aspirational example of a character page, albeit one still in-progress.
• “Final Kamehameha“: We’re making nice progress on another aspirational page, this time here instead for an attack or technique. In particular, please notice the real, legitimate, yes-we-hooked-it-all-back-up Dragon Ball Z for Kinect screenshot!
• “Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: This is very much a “preview” of where this page is heading… but this may be the first truly complete and comprehensive deep dive into the publication history of this extremely notable and influential fan manga series.

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With about two weeks under our belt since Kanzenshuu‘s wiki finally debuted to the world, we thought it would be a nice opportunity to share some of the cool things that have been worked on in the time since launch:

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

• “FUNimation Dragon Ball Z English Dub (1996-1998)“: As some of the few remaining people who actually lived through this time and are still kicking around, we felt it was important to document this product and timeline as much as possible. There’s still plenty of work to do, but some of what we wanted to drive home here was the ongoing success the syndication broadcast truly had, the fact that Saban’s exist of the children’s syndication business was a primary factors in the production pause, as well as what happened between 1998 and 1999 before “new” episodes aired on Cartoon Network.
• “SH1-SEC2“: Branching off some of the work put into the “Final Kamehameha” page, it made sense to catalog a significant milestone card in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes collection — as one of the two secret cards at launch, “SH1-SEC2” is especially notable for being the first card to give Vegetto his Final Kamehameha (now you see the connection!) in Heroes. Will we actually catalog every Dragon Ball Heroes card? Unlikely. But maybe…?!
• “Super Saiyan 5“: You may know “Super Saiyan 5” from a bunch of fan works, but did you know it was actually spoken aloud during the television series, and Akira Toriyama was point-blank asked about it by Naho Ooishi?! We think it’s worth acknowledging and cataloging these types of references, but we want to take it further by exploring their ongoing legacies and prevalence in fandom. This page also includes an original scan of David Montiel Franco’s original submission from Hobby Consolas as provided by Anthony, one of our Patrons — awesome!
• “Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory (Manga)“: One of our fun wiki-editing-live-stream discoveries just ahead of the launch was this joint Naho Ooishi and Osamu Kaneko manga series published in V-Jump in late 2010. In the time since launch, we’ve finished the main chapter citations for this series, which really helps tell the story of Ooishi’s professional debut in 2009 and the journey toward Dragon Ball SD in late 2010 immediately following this Dragon Quest promotional series.
• “ONEPIXCEL“: We have a lot of “music” and “song” entries done to some degree of completion, but during our internal chats we decided that “musical acts” (bands, groups, idols, etc.) would be worth covering. ONEPIXCEL — who performed “LAGRIMA”, the eleventh and final ending theme song for the Dragon Ball Super TV series — is one of the first entries in this batch. Stay tuned for more!

Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!

And in case you missed it:

A few days after launch, we sat down with a couple of the wiki editors and did a live tour though a bunch of our work, focusing on things you probably don’t expect to see/find, and answered a bunch of viewer questions along the way. Definitely worth your time to check out!