Kanzenshuu

I do boycott Viz with only a few exceptions. This is the company that advertised a specific release of the Dragon Ball manga as uncensored and yet they still censored it. Early on they apologized in one instance, calling it an accident, and then on a later print only partially uncensored the volume....

I can appreciate the man's distaste for how many people's hands have been in the pot for presenting Dragon Ball to English speaking audiences. He's trying to retro-fit the presentation of the product into being as non-mangled and natural as possible which I respect.

A long time ago, at least as early as 1996 (per a reference I found on Wuken's Homepage), there was an IRC chatroom that became the primary meeting place of Dragon Ball fans and website owners. Compared to the size of the chatroom, it had a tremendous downstream impact on English Dragon Ball fandom ...

An odd metric to gauge popularity, but at the anime cons I've been to, the draw of a TFS panel that is typically at least 90% Dragon Ball related completely blows away the audience that shows up for a more straight Dragon Ball panel. You end up hearing of a lot of people who've maintained their inte...

Enjoyed the heck out of this episode. I remember being incredibly confused when I first saw Dragon Ball Z on TV. I was young and I was used to watching the first 13 episodes air on TV week after week. Every time they got to episode 13 and teased the next episode and spoke of a martial arts tournamen...

My girlfriend actually read the entire manga inside of 2 weeks and she enjoyed the heck out of the movie. I was pretty jealous of how she was able to experience the series completely in order with no idea what of what would happen in the future. Watching Battle of the Gods in the theater, she said i...

Saw this in the theater tonight which was the second showing out of two showings my theater was doing. It was about 60-70% full. It was pretty awesome seeing half the people walking in wearing DBZ shirts and random Dragon Ball conversation going from all directions while everyone waiting for the mov...

I always found the murders of innocent people to be rather jarring. Taopiepie goes into some random town and offs a few peaceful citizens, completely out of left field and not at all within the normal tone of the show, and then the plot just progresses on and no one cares. At that point the show see...

There was a very short period of time where the only English subtitled version of Yu Yu Hakusho was through bootleg DVD's and if I remember correctly, Hiei and Kurama had their names switched in every instance their name was spoken. It was pretty awful. Rumor has it many of the subtitles on these se...

Anime Crisis, mentioned above, was involved in a pretty big fiasco that almost no one remembers. They were theoretically an anime club, based somewhere in or near Las Vegas. A few of the movies found their way to the internet but that's about it. A very long time ago, possibly around 1996 or so, bac...

What I was able to dig up (because the robots file has finally been removed) was the announcement of upcoming subtitled DVDs from toriyama.org (which was run by TheDuck [Brian], Wuken [Sherwin], Daimao [Steve], and maybe one other person I'm forgetting...? Was it Carddass [Rob]...?). It was indeed ...

Random tidbits: The Garlic Jr. saga also became first available through the Pearl version. I take the credit in introducing this to the internet at large after an extremely long and slow goose chase where I managed to track down a PAL version from someone overseas. Here is a picture of Shelton (I th...

Here is a good one that has never been addressed: Prior to Funimation's Dragon Ball Z syndication, Hawaiian premium television station Nippon Golden Network had been producing and broadcasting an English subtitled version of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. They had started with the original Dragon Ba...

There was a Halloween special but it wasn't DBZ. It was hilarious though!

I hated playing Dragon Power so much. One interesting thing to note about Dragon Power though is that it does not contain the entire game. In the Japanese version, once you beat it, you can make a wish to take you to the moon where you raid the moon base of the boss rabbit. For some reason you fight...

I have a close friend that I can talk pretty deep Dragon Ball with that's watched it in Japanese. Most of my other close male friends have enjoyed the series on some level at some point in time but never really talk about it and maybe only mention things like Team Four Star or the "over 9000" video....

Could you provide a link please? Ah yes, I intended to. http://www.pojo.com/dragonball/interviews/toriyama.shtml I imagine this interview was just scavenged from someplace else at one point. I'm...unsure of the validity of this interview. Especially since they don't provide an issue number or anyth...

IncompetentOverlord wrote:Could you provide a link please?

Ah yes, I intended to.

http://www.pojo.com/dragonball/intervie ... yama.shtml

I imagine this interview was just scavenged from someplace else at one point.

Akira Toriyama has apparently addressed this one before. The interview on this website is merely labeled "Interview from an old Shonen Jump issue with Toriyama" but here's what it says: Q: What happened to Vegeta's tail after he was defeated on Earth? A: The tail lets you gain tremendous strength in...

Congrats on 200. I've been listening regularly for a while now. I always enjoy listening to all the various takes on how the community has developed over the years.