The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-seventh entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the final transformation design of Freeza’s older brother Coola from the fifth theatrical Dragon Ball Z film, “The Incredible Strongest vs Strongest”. …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-sixth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a citation for and the title page from the 2007 Dr. Slump special chapter “Dr. Mashirito — Abale-chan“. The special chapter was …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-fifth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is Toriyama’s advertisement announcing the return of Masakazu Katsura’s Wing-Man in the 1984 No. 40 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump following its hiatus …
05 March 2018, 1:44 PM ESTComment
Tying in with one of last week’s daily Toriyama works entries — as well as with a recent interview translation! — this week’s podcast episode dives into the occasionally-combined worlds of Dragon Ball and KochiKame. A two-page fake ending to KochiKame kicks everything off, and we ultimately land 16 years later in a continuation to …
04 March 2018, 3:29 PM ESTComment
Following up on and inspired by the most recent “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” entry, the latest addition to our “Translations” archive is a joint interview between Akira Toriyama and Osamu Akimoto, the author of Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen Mae Hashutsujo (“This is the Police Station in Front of Kameari Park in Katsushika …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-fourth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is Toriyama’s illustration for the KochiKame guide book Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo Daizenshuu KAMEDAS (released 09 March 1993), depicting the series’ main character …
The fifth collected volume of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Super manga — originally and currently serialized on a monthly basis in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine — officially hit Japanese shelves 02 March 2018 for ¥400 + tax. Spanning 192 pages, the volume covers chapters 25 through 28. The volume takes its title of “The Decisive Battle! Farewell, …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-third entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the design for the main character of 2016’s Dragon Quest Builders: The game’s story follows the “bad” ending of the original Dragon …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirty-second entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the author’s design for the main character of 1991’s Super Sense Story, “Neo”: Super Sense Story — illustrated by Toriyama — was …
Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 receives various updates across all platforms today, including a free update alongside the paid “Extra Set 2” downloadable content pack, in addition to the paid “Anime Music Pack” (which was originally made available exclusively in Japan, but makes its way internationally to both Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 and Dragon Ball FighterZ …