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Four updates in one day?! What is this, 2009…? But nevertheless, we trek on with more daizenshuu translations! This time around we bring you the “Akira Toriyama Super Interview” from Daizenshuu 6 which was conducted on 05 October 1995 at Shueisha. This is the last of the main daizenshuu interviews with Toriyama where he discusses …
It’s been a few weeks, and we’re back with yet another new animator to highlight in the “Animation Styles Guide”. This week we detail the work of Toei Animation’s talented Naoki Miyahara, who joined the staff of Dragon Ball Z early on in 1990 as a key animator and would later be an animation supervisor …
When Dragon Ball began its grand revival in Japan in the early 2000s — with a “Perfect Edition” release of the manga and the TV series’ availability on home video for the first time ever via the Dragon Boxes — Shueisha began releasing new companion guide books to compliment this sudden surge of interest in …
After finishing all of the information pages for the seven original hardcover daizenshuu guide books, it’s time we move on to finishing up all the interview translations! In total the daizenshuu contain six interviews with series creator Akira Toriyama; one covering his illustrations and artwork, two covering the manga, and three covering the franchise’s animated …
Unlike the ever-so-untimely Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden review, the official Kanzenshuu review for the franchise’s latest video game is right on schedule: Dragon Ball Z for Kinect was released for the Xbox 360 last week, and beyond the expected motion control, we are treated to a bonus feature a la 2010’s Raging Blast 2 …
It’s yet another week, and making it just under the wire we have yet another new animator to highlight in the “Animation Styles Guide”. This week we detail the work of Toei Animation’s gifted Takeo Ide, who has been a key animator and animation supervisor for the nearly the entire history of the franchise. As …
After the release of Ultimate Tenkaichi late last year, I made a promise to myself and all of you: my written review of Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden for the Nintendo DS (originally released back in February 2011) would be posted before the franchise’s next video game was released. Today sees the release of Dragon …
While there won’t be any “Animation Styles Guide” update today, that doesn’t mean we won’t be leaving you without any new content at all! We’ve added dedicated pages for the two “Super Exciting Guide” volumes; the “Story Volume” and the “Character Volume”. Both volumes contain an interview with Akira Toriyama, and are based on the …
It’s yet another week, and making it just under the wire we have yet another new animator to highlight in the “Animation Styles Guide”. This week we detail the work of Toei Animation’s Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, who was an animation supervisor and character designer for the latter portion of Dragon Ball Z and for the entirety …
Another Monday brings us another update to the “Animation Styles Guide” here at Kanzenshuu. This time around we detail the work of Yukio Ebisawa, who was an animation supervisor for the entirety of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Ebisawa’s work was quite variable at times, with some of his animation being quite good and …