The following articles have been filed under the "Content" category and covers site-specific content, such as updates to the Episode Guide, Manga Guide, or our Translations Archive.
One of our favorite ways to learn new things about Akira Toriyama is by way of his colleagues and contemporaries. The series of mid-1990s essays from the Akira Toriyama Exhibition features a wealth of anecdotes and analysis from other artists, editors, etc. Another great source of commentary is the special guest column within the various …
The official Dragon Ball website’s twenty-first 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 title page from the debut chapter of Dr. Slump, published in the 1980 #5-6 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump released 05 …
Two new additions to our translation archive may feel a little familiar: the content has been referenced in several guides and articles across Kanzenshuu already! It turns out we never actually posted these in full, and it took the Toccio the Angel note this week for us to realize that! From 2002 to 2004, Shueisha …
The official Dragon Ball website’s twentieth 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 main packaging artwork for 1988’s Dragon Quest III on the Nintendo Famicom. As the official site only posts weekdays, and the …
The official Dragon Ball website’s nineteenth 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 look at Toriyama’s 2003 children’s book, Toccio the Angel, about a naughty angel who befriends a sentient tank. In the book’s …
The official Dragon Ball website’s eighteenth 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 one of three main color drawings provided by Toriyama for the production of the anime-only Dragon Ball GT television series, which ran …
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventeenth 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 the original Chobit chapter from the 1983 #10 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 08 February 1983. Chobit — …
The official Dragon Ball website’s sixteenth 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 set of character designs from 1986’s first theatrical Dragon Ball film, originally released 20 December 1986. The set of designs feature …
The official Dragon Ball website’s fifteenth 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 sample from the second Bird Land Press release — the Akira Toriyama official fan club newsletter — from September 1983, with …
The official Dragon Ball website’s fourteenth 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 four-panel comic drawn for the 1984 #5-6 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 05 January 1984. The #5-6 issue contained four-panel …