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The May issue of Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine announced on Friday that the capsule arcade game Dragon Ball Discross is inspiring a manga series. Katsuki Hirose launched the Dragon Ball Discross Jinryoku God Max!! manga in the same issue.
The manga will feature characters from the arcade game such as Discross announcer Jin and the Discung fu master known as Capu Sennin (Capsule Hermit). The story's protagonist will be average elementary school student Kūto Kurosu.
The Dragon Ball Discross game debuted at arcades and electronics shops in Japan on December 24. Players can purchase a Discross toy from capsule machines positioned around the arcade game console to play the game for free.
Each Discross costs 100 yen (about US$0.83), and advance sales began at the Jump Festa event on December 20 and 21. Each disc contains a different character from Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga and anime adaptations.
The Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F (Dragon Ball Z: The F in Fukkatsu, or 'resurrection') film also received a three-chapter manga adaptation starting in the April issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine on February 21. The film will premiere in both 2D and 3D in theaters throughout Japan on April 18.
The "red-yellow spiky bits glued on to regular black hair" haircut on one of those characters is just about the most absurd-looking hairstyle I have ever seen.
Pantalones wrote:The "red-yellow spiky bits glued on to regular black hair" haircut on one of those characters is just about the most absurd-looking hairstyle I have ever seen.
Almost reminds me of hairstyles from Yu-Gi-Oh in a way.
Anyway it seems to look like the same artist who does Charisma Mission. Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
The Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F (Dragon Ball Z: The F in Fukkatsu, or 'resurrection') film
Yep, that's from Anime News Network all right.
Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? Why won't they that edit that shit already?
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Is it just me or is everything tangentially Dragon Ball-related getting a manga nowadays? Next up, Xenoverse manga! After that, manga featuring new wave of Gashapon! Traced Drawn by those guys who did that Chi-chi dōjinshi!
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Herms wrote:Really, you could translate either title either way and nobody would care. But God would know.
The Tori-bot wrote:Is it just me or is everything tangentially Dragon Ball-related getting a manga nowadays?
Collectible trinket games like these getting tie-in manga to drum up interest in them is common. It's cheap to commission one and kids reading a magazine like V-Jump or Corocoro are far more likely to read a manga based on an unfamiliar arcade game than a feature page on new and cool updates to that game, so it's very effective advertisement.
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The Tori-bot wrote:Is it just me or is everything tangentially Dragon Ball-related getting a manga nowadays? Next up, Xenoverse manga! After that, manga featuring new wave of Gashapon! Traced Drawn by those guys who did that Chi-chi dōjinshi!
If that's the case Scars manga need to be official ASAP
James Teal (Animerica 1996) wrote:When you think about it, there are a number of similarities between the Chinese-inspired Son Goku and that most American of superhero icons, Superman. Both are aliens sent to Earth shortly after birth to escape the destruction of their homeworlds; both possess super-strength, flight, super-speed, heightened senses and the ability to cast energy blasts. But the crucial difference between them lies not only in how they view the world, but in how the world views them.
Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
So, is this manga going to have any actual stakes, or is it going to be like early Heroes: Victory Mission where they expect us to care if some kid wins a video game or not? Seriously, I was flabbergasted that it took until the second major arc for there to be an actual threat to... well, anything of any significance.
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The Tori-bot wrote:Is it just me or is everything tangentially Dragon Ball-related getting a manga nowadays? Next up, Xenoverse manga! After that, manga featuring new wave of Gashapon! Traced Drawn by those guys who did that Chi-chi dōjinshi!
To be fair, a Xenoverse manga could actually work if done right.
EDIT: The artist for this manga is Katsuki Hirose.
This looks terrible, I don't know why they would invest money into this when they have Heroes. Knowing our luck, this will be the game to get an animated series and be brought to the US instead of Heroes.
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Will this replace Dragon Ball SD?
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Will this replace Dragon Ball SD?
I really, really hope not.
I don't believe so. I don't think it's really replacing any of the Dragon Ball series in Saikyo Jump. So with SD, Charisma Mission, and the GT Anime Comic Saikyo Jump is gonna have a crap load of Dragon Ball content.