Who was the artist who did a lot of the official 90s artwork

[Chuquita]

That "greatest hero of 20th century" is something else. X3
You don't normally see real-life time referenced in DB stuff.

Believe it or not, that slogan was on a whole TON of the old posters and shitajiki images. I only have two other examples here to offer besides that one (one of which has already been up on the blog for awhile now) but it was a pretty common sight on an awful, awful lot of 90s Japanese DBZ artwork, along with a bunch of other heavily Engrish-ified little blurbs about the series.





Seriously though, try counting the number of times you find fun little word-salad tone poems on a bunch of these images like "It had passed for 5 years since the awful and terrible battle of Tenkaichi Budokai". Or the even more popular "Evil Cell constantly watches you from the land above. There's absolutely nothing you can do, and there's nowhere you can run away, once you're caught in the hands of evil Cell. Now, the eternal darkness comes." That one was also featured prominently on a DBZ poster I bought at a New York basement sale circa 1994. Oh, and of course the almost weirdly religious-sounding "Thanks to the father and the son of the Sons, the earth was peaceful again."

A lot of the same ones keep cropping up, trust me.

So entertaining to find out there's multiple word-salads. X3 Very neat.
I've definitely seen the "It had passed for 5 years" one on stuff before (I think it ends with something like 'Laditz, who had a strong tail' or something to that effect) but never seen the 20th, Cell, or "son of the Sons" you mentioned until now. That Cell one reads so amazingly-parody-like, I can only imagine what illustrations accompanied it. Thank you for sharing these.

[Kunzait_83]

Forgot about another one I had which has the "20th Century" blurb.

So entertaining to find out there's multiple word-salads. X3 Very neat.
I've definitely seen the "It had passed for 5 years" one on stuff before (I think it ends with something like 'Laditz, who had a strong tail' or something to that effect) but never seen the 20th, Cell, or "son of the Sons" you mentioned until now. That Cell one reads so amazingly-parody-like, I can only imagine what illustrations accompanied it. Thank you for sharing these.

Ha ha. My pleasure.

The Cell one was on mostly lots of Cell Games-related images (of which there were metric shit-tons in general throughout the mid-90s). The poster I had was of Perfect Cell and the Z Senshi all standing together in front of the Cell Games arena.

The full version of the one you were thinking of goes like (mind you every spelling and punctuation error you see here are me faithfully recreating verbatim what appears on the images):

"It had passed for 5 years since the awful and terrible battle of Tenkaichi Budokai The world had acquired the extreme peace. Obviously Gokou and Chichi of his dearest wife had given a birth to the son named Songohan before 5 years and it had received a call from the calm and peaceful daily life. Such peace was fragilely gone to pieces due to the sudden appearance of the mystery man Raditz who had a strong tail"

Don't know about any of you, but "Extreme peace" and "Such peace was fragilely gone to pieces" are the highlights for me. Fragilely.

Another one goes:

"Approximately one year has gone by since Freeza and Gokou had engaged in a life-or-death battle on Namekku Planet. A spaceship manned by unknown crew and endowed with a gigantic 'spiritual power' landed on earth."

Another one:

"Gohan went to a high school in Satan City. He took part in the Tenkaichi Martial Arts Meet together with his classmate Videl, his younger brother Goten, and his friends. It was the first meet in many years. Gohan participated in the Tenkaichi Martial Arts Meet by transforming himself into a great saiyaman to as not reveal his identify as a Saiyan. Satan City was named after Mr. Satan, who was believed to be the savior of the earth and lived in the city. Gokou and Gohan, though, had really saved the earth."

And yet another:

"Gohan continues his training to master the Z Sword in Kaioshin Kai under the watchful eyes of Kaioshin and Kibito. Gokou, his days on earth numbered, bequeathed his art to the warrior hopes for the future, Goten and Trunks. That art is fusion."

There's another great one for the early Jinzoningen/Trunks arriving portion of the story, but its lost on me at the moment.

"There's more power here than there ever was before, for sure." wasn't on too many of them I don't think (maybe just the one I have up on the blog).

Also "Fighter of indomitable strength. Stand and duel with evil! Unite as one to beat the enemy!" was on a whooooole LOT of them (and is also kinda genuinely cool).

Bear in mind that dealing with mangled engrish like this on the regular went way, waaaaaaay far beyond simply Dragon Ball: it was a common theme among wider anime (and uh, Hong Kong cinema) fandom throughout the late 80s and most of the 90s. As frustrating as it could sometimes be, it also was at times as much a part of the fun as anything else, and responsible for a number of fandom in-jokes and I guess what you might call prototypical "memes".

[JulieYBM]

I finally took the time to look through the archive. I have had this poster on my wall for a good fourteen years! I also have another from the 1990s of Super Saiyan 3 Son Gokuu with headshots of Perfect Cell, Fourth Form Freeza, Evil Majin Buu, and Piccolo Daimaou that appears to have not been uploaded yet. It's a shame I am unable to scan it.

[Kunzait_83]

Major, major updates to the blog. All the GT stuff I promised I'd upload awhile back has been uploaded, along with a whole bunch more DB and DBZ stuff (including even a few things I requested on previous pages in this thread). Pretty nicely mixed/balanced update all around.

With that though once again comes a few more "search requests" for fodder for the blog that's out there somewhere, hopefully in quality less shitty than what you'll see here. Anyone out there who comes across or has any of these, forward them my way. Same goes for anything/everything else I put up on previous pages in this thread that haven't been posted yet (and better quality versions of stuff that have been). This time though of course, GT images are also in the mix.

[IgnorantFuniFan]

Here's a re-coloring of an image that seems to have been drawn by the same unknown artist that this thread is about: http://imran-ryo.deviantart.com/art/Veg ... -131697563. Does anyone have the original image?