As the digital version wraps up the Saiyan arc in Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump, the company is getting ready to unleash their print version of the Dragon Ball “Full Color” comics onto the English-speaking world.
What we can tell so far from the company’s previews online is that the Japanese sound effects will be kept as-is (unlike their original releases of the manga with re-typed English-language sound effects), and the typeset has been rekajiggered from the Shueisha-imposed Optima Nova Condensed to what we see in pretty much every other release.
And yes, we are all reading this tweet as another jab at cropped home video releases.
Viz’s 248-page first “Full Color” print edition is due out 04 February 2014.
Be sure to check out our quick looks at both Shueisha’s Japanese print edition and Viz’s English digital edition of the “Full Color” comics from last year.
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Stunned. Now tell me there’s no edits!
Looks promising! If even the sound effects are kept as is (something Viz has never done before), then we can most likely expect no edits due to the increased difficulty in editing colored manga (just please leave Mr. Popo alone, please, Viz…)