Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1 (VIZBIG Edition) Information + Vol 2.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:10 pm

Since when was VIZ whoring Death Note?

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:13 pm

Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:Since when was VIZ whoring Death Note?

It's one of their top properties.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:56 pm

Brad Redfield wrote:
dragondyle wrote:How come people don't know this? We got an uncesored version of the Dragon Ball manga in America.
No we didn't. They altered Mr. Popo's lips in the initial release as well.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who finds that so minor it's not worth complaining about. True, I'm one of the few here who has an obvious reason for preferring the alteration, but still.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Tue May 27, 2008 7:24 pm

Raki wrote:
Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:Since when was VIZ whoring Death Note?
It's one of their top properties.

Not to take this too far off topic, but all I see is the occasional advertisment for the novel and an anime DVD...

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue May 27, 2008 7:46 pm

Color pages? anyone?

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:48 pm

Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:
Raki wrote:
Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:Since when was VIZ whoring Death Note?
It's one of their top properties.
Not to take this too far off topic, but all I see is the occasional advertisment for the novel and an anime DVD...

The Death Note merchandise Viz has on their website (like their pens and lights and stuff); it's all over FYE's anime section. My local FYE has sections for merchandise sections for Death Note, Tsubasa and Bleach. Oddly enough their Naruto stuff is off to one side on its own.

Though if you go into the Borders at Quaker Bridge, Naruto's got a HUGE cardboard cut-out with its manga all over the place.

Of the four, Death Note and Tsubasa are the only ones of those I read (And Tsubasa's gotten kinda squick-worthy lately, so I've lost some of my interest in it.)

Brad Redfield · Post by **Brad Redfield** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:05 am

Super Sonic wrote:I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who finds that so minor it's not worth complaining about. True, I'm one of the few here who has an obvious reason for preferring the alteration, but still.

I wasn't complaining, just simply pointing out that the books were edited even in their intial printings.

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:15 am

This big release of new Dragon Ball stuff makes sense, the live action will be out in a year.

It just sucks that it took them so damn long to release this. Many of the fans have literally been waiting years for something like this: An English Daizenshuu/ artbook

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:50 am

Fully censored. Hazaa.

Graphic · Post by **Graphic** » Wed May 28, 2008 3:55 am

Who's to blame, society, parents, kids, FUNi, Viz, Shonen Jump?...

Damn kids, if there were no kids in this world, there would be no censoring of manga, but if there really were no kids, there would be no Dragon Ball! Oh it's a bittersweet taste!

I'm such a perfectionist that I like to have it the way it was meant, purely unaltered.

ThegreatPirateKing · Post by **ThegreatPirateKing** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:03 am

Ah, censorship.

I could understand Mr. Popo's lips (Could be considered racist) yet they were never censored in any version of the dubbed anime...
Though, are three panels of breasts gonna offend me? No. It wan't sexual or anything so why should it? This is Dragon Ball, not a hentai series.

And the Female butt is now a 'sexual organ'?
...
America is now offically being run by idiots.

Manga Viz SHOULDN'T be whoring out:
Naruto
Bleach

Manga Viz SHOULD be whoring out:
One Piece
Shaman King
Bo-Bo-Bo-Bo Bo-Bo-Bo
Slam Dunk
Yu Yu Hakusho

Basically, they are premoting the wrong series. Come on, EVERY other country in the world is further in their One Piece releases than America.
Viz wants America to be overrun by Narutards...

Let's look forward to place filled with stupidy, violence and emos!

@R!$t! · Post by **@R!$t!** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:28 pm

So does this release include the 100+ color pages it SHOULD contain??, or did they cut them in half or some other crazy thing? ¬¬

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:04 pm

No, Dragon Ball volume one has around 50 pages.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:05 pm

Personally, I hate the way it looks with color. The color is very...I want to say half-assed. Better in black and white.

@R!$t! · Post by **@R!$t!** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:21 pm

So just around half the pages it should have...now that's f*cked up...and which chapters are colored? or did they just did like 5 color pages per chapter (normally when a chapter has color pages, the entire chapter is colored....I guess they could just color some of the pages)

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:53 pm

They started coloring and couldn't make it after the first few pictures. Then got inspiration again later on.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:15 pm

Are you guys still guessing this, or is it true? Can anyone clarify?

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:01 pm

I don't know anything about it because I don't follow Viz' releases. They are horrible if you ask me. If they made an uncut release, I'd buy all their DB/Z stuff. But since they don't seem to have any interest in making a release that makes sense, I say screw it.

@R!$t! · Post by **@R!$t!** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:01 pm

Its true that there's only like 50 color pages from what some guy said, but I want to know if just some of the chapters are colored, or some of the pages of every chapter...

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Wed May 28, 2008 9:14 pm

It's a pity these are edited, and don't contain all of the colour pages that they should.

But considering the price and the fact I've never purchased the manga before, these are a definite buy for me (along with the first Daizenshuu from Viz)