Shonen Jump offering DragonBall manga for free download!?

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:04 am

Chuquita wrote:Unless there's some other brimmed-hat-donning main character of a Jump manga series that I don't know about. ^^;

Just watch it turn out to not be Luffy now. XD

Actually, the human drawing of Toriyama has a hat like that.

coinmanmat · Post by **coinmanmat** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:17 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:
Chuquita wrote:
SSj_Rambo wrote: Hmm, seems to be working fine now. Is anyone else having problems?

And it looks like they plan on including another series in their online manga collection... only I have no clue what it is:

That's Luffy. *Points to silhouette*.

Unless there's some other brimmed-hat-donning main character of a Jump manga series that I don't know about. ^^;
Yeah, I sort of thought so, but was too lazy to look up an image of him and double check.

Anyway, I tried using Microsoft Word to read the encoding of the packet files that the chapters come in and somehow figure out how to extract just the images, and got stuck here:

Yeah it looks like they're going to add One Piece in the future. Microsoft Word goes haywire anytime I copy or paste any Japanese text or any other language for that matter. To be honest I wish the software could translate it.
And I wish they would add Naruto since this year marks the 10th anaversary of the series' seiralization in Jump. Or Bleach would be nice too

DNA · Post by **DNA** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:24 pm

Thanks a lot for the downloads SSj_Rambo! You're the best!

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:50 pm

DNA wrote:Thanks a lot for the downloads SSj_Rambo! You're the best!

No problem! Glad to be able to help.

coinmanmat wrote:Microsoft Word goes haywire anytime I copy or paste any Japanese text or any other language for that matter. To be honest I wish the software could translate it.

Well, I was just using Word's automated conversion attempt to get a look at how the file is built, but I have basically zero experience in file encoding/script, especially one made in Japan by a small-scale manga company.

Really, your going to have to disect the code the browser uses to read the .sva file, and use it to manually access just the images (from what I can tell). Now, when I tried opening the file with Word, I got a frickin' 27,788 page Word Document (8.33mb, anyone want a copy?).

As for your problems with Japanese text and MS Word, I suggest installing Microsoft's Japanese Language pack.

Tekkaman-James · Post by **Tekkaman-James** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:18 pm

DNA wrote:Thanks a lot for the downloads SSj_Rambo! You're the best!

I second that remark! Thanks a ton, SSj_Rambo! Even though it's coming from Jump, I just can't stand when companies want me to install proprietary software to fully enjoy their website. Can't wait to start reading this!

coinmanmat · Post by **coinmanmat** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:31 am

Tekkaman-James wrote:
DNA wrote:Thanks a lot for the downloads SSj_Rambo! You're the best!
I second that remark! Thanks a ton, SSj_Rambo! Even though it's coming from Jump, I just can't stand when companies want me to install proprietary software to fully enjoy their website. Can't wait to start reading this!

I know and I think its stupid too. This is what i don't get, on the North American SJ website ( www.shonenjump.viz.com ) you can read manga there without having to install the manga browser but on that WSJ site you have to install the browser. That just dosent make sense

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:17 pm

I don't know if anyone noticed, but chapter three is up in both languages, and now that it is the weekend I've gotten a chance to take screenshots of each page for both versions, and since both versions of chapter 2 has been removed from the official sites, I am no longer offering downloads of them:

English Site
Japanese Site

Chapter 003 English DL
Chapter 003 Japanese DL

Even though some of the pages are crooked, it's nice to see some classic images in nice, smooth digital colors:

DNA · Post by **DNA** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:43 pm

Hmm... so now Goku's gi is orange and Bulma's hair is purple... I wonder why the change.

By the way, are they coming out every week or something?

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:44 pm

I didn't notice Bulma's hair color suddenly change. ^^;;;

I'd throw in a bit more shading, but other than that I'm happy with this color release so far. :3

And I don't mind Goku's gi being the wrong color; its not a deal-breaker.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:01 pm

DNA wrote:By the way, are they coming out every week or something?

That's what they say, but they were a little late with this one.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:04 pm

so, why is chapter 2 down? And crooked pages?

DNA · Post by **DNA** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:10 pm

SSj_Rambo wrote:That's what they say, but they were a little late with this one.

Oh goody, 3 down, only 516 weeks to go :3

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:11 pm

bkev wrote:so, why is chapter 2 down? And crooked pages?

It has been removed from their site so that people don't have the option of viewing an entire volume online as apposed for paying for it, and thus I removed my download of it because, it would pretty much be illegal to leave it up.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:18 pm

Makes enough sense. However, what's annoying about that is that I find it highly likely that those back issues are unlikely to see the light of day unless someone saves them. Still, you can't be to blame; I'd take them down if I'd done the work too.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:29 pm

bkev wrote:Makes enough sense. However, what's annoying about that is that I find it highly likely that those back issues are unlikely to see the light of day unless someone saves them. Still, you can't be to blame; I'd take them down if I'd done the work too.

Yeah, and I have the screenshots I took saved on my HDD, just in case they're ever needed. And as for your question on the crooked pages, I doubt the pages were scanned in, but that seems like the most likely explanation. Either that or when the illustrator was coloring the pages in, they messed with the alignment and forget to fix it; but that seems unlikely considering how many pages are off, spanning from the first chapter.

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coinmanmat · Post by **coinmanmat** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:33 pm

Sorry to bump this thread but WSJ has put chapter 2 back up and chapter 4 should be out tomorrow

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:47 pm

Chapter 4 is up, and all the chapters are actually available for viewing - just change the URL a bit. They're not deleted from the site.

Though, is there something weird going on with these files? Upon viewing them, the files automatically delete themselves when I close the Jumpland Browser.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:05 pm

Since Ch. #2 is back, are there any... differences between the editions?

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:44 pm

The only chapter on the site that I can see listed is #1. ^^;

I don't see 4 listed there at all.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:00 pm

Four is up in Japanese: http://www.mediafire.com/?zizqzgcigqm