I don't know where to put this, but I need help.

Bomber Greek · Post by **Bomber Greek** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:48 pm

Back when the 25th or whatever anniversary of Dragon Ball happened, remember the different manga authors drew Dragon Ball characters in their own style? Well, I'd like to see these again but can't find them. Please help?

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:49 pm

These?

Bomber Greek · Post by **Bomber Greek** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:51 pm

Thank you.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:01 am

*looks at topic title*
....
That's what she said...

I loves these drawings. It just makes me proud to be a fan of the series when I see what a huge impact it had on so many other artists.

Masashi Kishimoto and Eichira Oda's sketches are my personal favorites.

Kingdom Heartless · Post by **Kingdom Heartless** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:11 am

I think my favourite is Kentarô Yabuki's.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:31 am

I like Tite Kubo's drawing. Even though Trunks resembles Ichigo and Piccolo resembles Kenpachi.

Post by **Herms** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:36 am

Those all also originally came with a page-long commentary by each author on their memories of the series (or at least they do in DragonBall: Landmark). Has anyone ever translated those?

Kingdom Heartless · Post by **Kingdom Heartless** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:39 am

Herms wrote:Those all also originally came with a page-long commentary by each author on their memories of the series (or at least they do in DragonBall: Landmark). Has anyone ever translated those?

I would really like to see those.

Where were these originally printed?

Post by **Herms** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:07 am

Kingdom Heartless wrote:I would really like to see those.

Where were these originally printed?

I'm not really sure. The "Children of DragonBall" pictures themselves were originally printed as inserts for the first printings of the kanzenban, so I assume that the little artist commentary essay things were printed with them. My only uncertainty comes from the fact that while the pictures are brought up quite often, I've never seen anyone mention the artist commentary, so maybe they were only printed in DragonBall Landmark.

I don't have Landmark with me, but I remember that in Oda's essay he talked about his reaction to Kuririn's death, and wondering where the story would go from there. He says that he now knows not even Toriyama himself knew at the time. In Tite Kubo's one, he talks about the impression the villians left on him. He recalls when Tao Pai Pai first appeared, and how he and his friends argued about which was stronger, the Kamehameha or the Dodon-pa. He also says that when Trunks appeared was the biggest shock he ever got from reading a manga. I don't remember much apart from that.

YouTube · Post by **Hujio** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:55 am

Herms wrote:I don't have Landmark with me, but I remember that in Oda's essay he talked about his reaction to Kuririn's death, and wondering where the story would go from there. He says that he now knows not even Toriyama himself knew at the time. In Tite Kubo's one, he talks about the impression the villians left on him. He recalls when Tao Pai Pai first appeared, and how he and his friends argued about which was stronger, the Kamehameha or the Dodon-pa. He also says that when Trunks appeared was the biggest shock he ever got from reading a manga. I don't remember much apart from that.

This is what I have, as taken from DragonBall Landmark.

Oda Eiichirou-[i]sensei[/i] wrote:That unforgettable day one summer, when our lively class was overnight lodging at the minshuku [private home used as an inn], someone was crying out "Krillin has died!!" while running through the corridor. "DragonBall" would see a huge development in that week's Jump. It was much more important to us than any actual news. Everybody would discuss Jump, and every week friends would crowd around to speak about the story. "What will happen next week?" What happens to so-and-so? What really happened?

In the 11 years that DragonBall was serialized, how many times did we say "What will happen"?

There is a saying, "God's groove is understandable," and in this case the author is God of being terrible, which apparently Toriyama-sensei had personally said. "What will happen?" Ah...! It's haphazardly reached its extent.

However, our expectations of Toriyama, err, Goku, were never betrayed although the circumstances were reverse of what we wanted. Boys in the entire country, every week, would raise their voices of great joy over the behavior and skill of Goku and his friends. When Goku goes to an unknown place, together we would think "Where is this?" and as Goku gets angry, together we would cry out "This is unforgivable!!" The weekly serialization was born out of unique Japanese culture, and truly is a shounen comic for the boys.

"DragonBall" is a masterpiece.

Dragonball Children | First Round
Oda Eiichirou-sensei
Born on January 1, 1975, in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture / His debut production was "WANTED!" (His aim was to become a Manga-ka for JC! He earned praise at Dezuka-Akatsuka for his work on the 11th volume) / In 1997 "ONE PIECE" began its serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump number 34, and is still running to this day.

I have them all laying around here somewhere. Maybe we should do something with them (@Herms)? By the way, this is the only one I have translated.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:48 am

[size=0]Can I just say, Big Momma, stop using so much super fucking tiny text, for fuck's sake![/size]

Kentaro Yubuki's is kinda... uh... yeah.

Also, can somebody mabye translate the text in Hirano's image?

*glances at Herms*

Post by **Herms** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:02 am

The Tori-bot wrote:Also, can somebody mabye translate the text in Hirano's image?

*glances at Herms*

Kame-sennin is probably the first true “dirty old man” that many people ever saw. Thinking about it now, there was even a deep meaning behind his nickname being “turtle”.
[his hands] sway sway sway [more or less]

There, that'll be nine dollars.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:25 am

Herms wrote:
The Tori-bot wrote:Also, can somebody mabye translate the text in Hirano's image?

*glances at Herms*

Kame-sennin is probably the first true “dirty old man” that many people ever saw. Thinking about it now, there was even a deep meaning behind his nickname being “turtle”.
[his hands] sway sway sway [more or less]
There, that'll be nine dollars.

y thankya

Don't I get a discount? I am the Toriyama-Robot, y'know?

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:39 pm

I always liked how the big manga writers of today love and respect Dragonball, while their fans(more in America) despise the franchise.

B · Post by B » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:48 pm

I found a website YESTERDAY that had some of the mangaka's messages translated, and I can't remember for the life of me what the site's name was.

Anyone wanna list popular DB fansites for me?

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:50 pm

Big Momma wrote:*looks at topic title*
....
That's what she said...

Yeah...

I love these images, they're another reason I want the kanzenban.