When Shueisha’s “Full Color” version of the Dragon Ball manga hit shelves in Japan, special Q&A sessions were included that dropped a few informational bombshells courtesy of original manga author Akira Toriyama himself. Some of the most interesting at the time involved characters from the then-just-released film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, while others …
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Though it tends to receive little in-depth attention around these parts, Dragon Ball SD from Naho Ooishi continues to truck along each month in Saikyō Jump. The second collected volume was released last week in Japan, compiling the 10th through 18th monthly reboot chapters. The volume also includes the “Battle of Gods Special Manga Version” …
There are countless examples of what many people consider to be common knowledge within the Dragon Ball fan community, and yet many of these end up being slightly off-track if not entirely wrong (such as the prevalent rumors that Akira Toriyama “originally intended” to end the series with the Freeza story arc). Akira Toriyama’s feelings …
One of the original plans back when we first launched the “DVD Guide” on Daizenshuu EX was to detail all of the bonus materials included with each disc. This would have included on-disc extras, physical inclusions like cards, and additional notes on production aspects such as subtitle errors, etc. At the time this was a …
Though the company has just brought the digital serialization to a close, the “Full Color” version of the Dragon Ball manga will live on in the print edition from Viz. Check out our full review of Viz’s first release. Volume 2 is due out in April, so find out if this is a product to …
With the official worldwide release of the new fighting game Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z on game consoles, many more fans are becoming familiar with the God of Destruction from Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. It seems that Bandai Namco’s decision to go with a localization of “Beerus” for his name has confused …
This week’s upcoming March 2014 issue of Saikyō Jump in Japan contains a wealth of new and bonus Dragon Ball material, namely a “Super Kanzenban” reprint of Naho Ooishi’s Episode of Bardock manga (originally published in three chapters over the June, July, and August 2011 issues of V-Jump), itself containing the original three chapters and …
Shortly after launching the combined Kanzenshuu megasite, we added a wealth of lyrics from the “newer” Dragon Ball video game songs. Raging Blast 2‘s “Battle of Omega” was otherwise the last true new addition to the ever-expanding world of these songs, but a few stragglers have come along since then. The following songs have all …
It all happened so quickly that it nearly passed us all by without even a second thought: we have hit the century mark! The translations archive now houses over 100 translated documents, interviews, Q&As, articles, and much more. Needless to say we are quite proud of all we have accomplished to date, but adding this …
2012 was a significant year for us — the merged Kanzenshuu launched! — and it was also a significant year for Dragon Ball. It should be pretty safe to say that 2013 knocked it out of the park, however. Much like last year, we thought it would be fun to take a look at the …