Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
1st Printing:
Visual Censorship: Panels containing nudity (Bulma) are edited. Sherman the Shaman, Oolongs Puff Puff fantasy and Rabit Gang members lips color/removed, Bulma giving the finger to Pilaf is edited as well
Dialogue: Edited to removing cursing.
Comments: 12/8/2014: Viz's 2nd printing fixes censoring errors 2nd Printing:
Visual Censorship: Bulmas middle finger edited + Sherman the Shaman, Oolongs Puff Puff fantasy and Rabit Gang members lips color/removed
Dialogue: Vol. 1 has censored dialogue but 2 and 3 don't appear to
Volume Two:
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: General Black lips colored
Dialogue: Unknown Censorship (assumption: Unedited)
Visual Censorship: Edited: Popos lips removed
Dialogue: Unknown Censorship (assumption: Unedited)
Comments: Viz has stated Popo will be edited in every edition
Volume Six
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Edited: Popos lips removed, Panel of Gohan has been left edited
Dialogue: Cursing has been removed
Other Issues:Tale 187 title card is missing (uses chapter 189's title card)
187,188 & 205-216 Translation Notes regarding the spit of Dragon Ball and "Z" still appear
Comments: No word on a reprint
Volume Seven
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Mr. Popo's lips have been removed
Dialogue: None
Other Issues: Missing title pages 217,218, 229, 231, 241, 242, 247. Typo on one cover page "The Quiet Wrath of Son Go"
Comments: Waiting for reply from VIZ
Volume Eight
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: None
Dialogue: None
Other Issues: Missing title pages 253, 265, 266, 272-278,282,287,288
Comments:Almost perfect
Volume Nine
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Mr. Popo
Dialogue: None
Other Issues: Missing title pages 301,305
Comments: A pretty solid release!
Volume Ten
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Mr. Popo
Dialogue: Removal of cursing (Assumed **waiting for validation**)
Other Issues: Missing title pages 326, 328-330,338,339,343,344,350,351
Comments:N/A
Volume Eleven
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Mr. Popo, Some editing issues on 2 title pages (heads cut off) Tale 371's title page left censored
Dialogue: Removal of cursing (Assumed **waiting for validation**), Mr. Satan is still called "H u r c u le"
Other Issues: Missing title pages 362,363,374,375,386,387,388
Comments:Let down that VIZ didn't change Satan for the "Uncut" Version. I have contacted them and awaiting a reply
Volume Twelve
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Mr. Popo, 17's Gun still removed
*4th printing, June 2020: 17s gun has been restored* (Thanks SSGSS Goku!)
Dialogue: Mr. Satan is still called "H u r c u le" and all Sating (such as Satan City remain censored)
Other Issues: Missing title pages 397,398,402,409,415,421,422
Comments:Let down that VIZ didn't change Satan for the "Uncut" Version. I think they just gave up with the uncensorship at this point
Volume Thirteen
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: None to be identified
Dialogue: Mr. Satan is still called "H u r c u le" and all Sating (such as Satan City remain censored) and some cussing
Other Issues: Missing title pages 446, 461
Comments:Overall not bad, thought it seems there wasnt much they could mess up
Volume Fourteen
Spoiler:
Visual Censorship: Guns turned into Lasers, Mr. Popos lips removed Gotens middle finger becomes a fist
Dialogue: Mr. Satan is still called "H u r c u le" and all Sating (such as Satan City remain censored)
Other Issues: Missing title pages 478,188,501
Comments:Once again Viz misses the mark in making this an "Uncensored" release. It seems they stopped caring a while back
FINAL VERDICT
Over all it's an okay release. It's much cheaper than collecting the single volumes and hold up better than the Viz bigs. Not bad for a budget release though it falls very short on it's promise of being uncensored (The singles of "Dragon Ball can be collected both visual and verbally 99% uncensored) for the "Z" portion of the series it's worth the value in terms of page count per price rather than added value. While these are coming out adjacent with the Full Colors those are defiantly worth their weight in gold while these fall flat but hold some value if one simply wants to collect the series on the cheap.
Last edited by eledoremassis02 on Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:03 pm, edited 71 times in total.
Nice I like that you stated what each one of them has in difference but who exactly is this release for? Certainly not for the Dragon Ball fans since the inkcums, paper quality and censorship.
Ugh Viz.. just give us the rest of Z's Full Colour comics and produce an uncut high quality release for Dragon Ball.
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
Geez, do they have ANY uncut releases? I'm not a picky person (Brick owner here) but it really should be uncut. Why are they still censoring Mr. Popo's lips, while he's allowed to show it all even on Nicktoons?
Valerius Dover wrote:Geez, do they have ANY uncut releases? I'm not a picky person (Brick owner here) but it really should be uncut. Why are they still censoring Mr. Popo's lips, while he's allowed to show it all even on Nicktoons?
The lips on the Full Colour release was censored too, they swapped it for a black line but at times they left it intact, or so it's what it looked like to me.
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
Updated with Volume 7's cover and added the next spine art. Also updated volume 6 to address the issue of the missing chapter art pages
I have a feeling the full colors will return after these are up. Once Dragon Ball vol.1 is re-released it'll be nice to have all of Dragon Ball 98% Uncut but I wonder if they'll change the dialogue to it's original.
Reading Volume 7 now so I should be able to update this thread about any issues later tonight
Those were incomplete, since DB Episodes 1-13 were not included. Also, the OP and ED for Z and GT were still replaced with different animations in the dub. But that's getting a bit too off-topic. It just bugs me that they still can't release the manga uncut.
Looks like Viz had originally repurposed the title page for chapter 224 to go with chapter 225 (probably back during the run of the old monthlies), and only just got around to fixing it. Only, they broke something else in the process.
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最近、あんまし投稿してないねんけど、見てんで。いっつも見てる。
Well, as much as I don't like the 3-in-1s for their false advertising and poor quality, I am impressed (and didn't realize until now) that they're accurately keeping it as one series for the first time. No Dragon Ball Z! No starting over on chapter numbers. I like that a lot!
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Probably not a good idea to use a perm pen marker since the paper quality is so low and everything's visible from one side to another.
I love the spines, fact that they're considering it all as one series together but the paper quality is a huge deal breaker although if it was as good as the Full Colour comics even with the censorship I'd be okay with it.
Viz please make a high quality release like this even if it means bumping the price up!
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
I didn't know about the title page change, that's pretty interesting! Also, Updated the first post with other Title card translation changes
The main reason I'm getting these is because it's finally all under "Dragon Ball" *I hope future releases are the same* and that they're uncut (but they're not..lol)
So I posted to Viz's Facebook about the missing title pages and the typo (usually I get a quicker response) and my post appears to have been deleted. Really? If you took a little more time to check these before mass-printings you would not have me bothering you
So I e-mailed them about the issues with volumes 7 and 6...so I hope to get a response soon.
On a side not, I updated Vol. 6. They left all the translation notes that were caused due to the original splitting of "Dragon Ball" and "Z"
Ex-Dubbie369 wrote:
So, I visited a Barnes and Noble in Huntington Beach, CA this morning, and saw the omnibus editions. For kicks, I grabbed the first volume, checked the first page and behold! It said "Second Printing-November 2014". I flipped through to the pages that would typically have been censored, and Viz was true to their word. All penises and boobs are restored properly. The only page I forgot to check was the one where Bulma has some censored dialog (where it actually covers the words to say "CENSORED"). I also stupidly didn't take any pictures. But hey, this looks like Viz at least kind of cares. Now if only they would fix "(the H-word)" "Djinn" and "Vegerot", I would consider buying this release.
Thanks for the info! Volume 1 in the first post has been updated (got the volume so I added some other input as well).
I checked out one of these at my bookstore recently. I really like how light and easy to hold these are, since the VizBigs were a bit too bulky for me. Not to mention it is more consistent. I'll probably collect these when they are on sale or something.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
Read the latest volume and nothing bad about it at all! The paper seemed a little thicker...tho I could be used to it now (Still better than VJumps waxpaper). Overall pleased! Shame we have to wait till sept to finish Freeza tho..
eledoremassis02 wrote:Read the latest volume and nothing bad about it at all! The paper seemed a little thicker...tho I could be used to it now (Still better than VJumps waxpaper). Overall pleased! Shame we have to wait till sept to finish Freeza tho..
That is interesting. Is it all uncut?
JacobYBM wrote:Art is subjective but boobies are forever.
Certainly not for the Dragon Ball fans since the inkcums, paper quality and censorship.
