Full colour print editions of DB volumes 1-16 coming

[Wezenheim]

Really great stuff, the entire series will in color, hopefully the upcoming viz volumes get enough support so they can continue releasing them, french publisher Glénat said they have plans to publish dragon ball in color this year, now that beginning is released i wonder if the french release will start with those first.

if viz made the volumes smaller in size making them cheaper, i think more people would've bought them and we would've gotten the other sagas much quicker.

I like the bigger size personally. I think it helps the images pop out better and it feels like a more unique product.

You might be right about the fact that they might sell better if they were cheaper, but the selfish person in me wants them to stay the same haha. I'm willing to pay for quality.

Pretty sure everyone likes the bigger size better. It's one of the translated edition's greatest selling points, if not the greatest. For once, we in the West have something even the Japanese themselves don't. For people that know Japanese (like myself - I'm actually stilll studying, really, but Dragon Ball is extremely easy to read - though that might just be because I know the story by heart at this point ), the size might be the one thing that makes them wait for the Viz edition rather than just buy the Japanese edition from the get-go, especially considering it takes ages to come out and it's got censored Popo.

I don't know if they saw that the original "masters" were bigger than the Japanese print edition, thought it was a shame to shrink the image size in their own print edition and decided to release it in a more premium format or if the difference in cost is negligible, but either way, I'm extremely happy they went this route.

Yeah I'm also quite happy with that decision and with the Full Colors in general. Even with only one arc (soon to be two) available, its my favorite English release of the manga and I'll gladly support it. Viz did a really good job with the Saiyan arc, I hope they continue the trend and I hope they get rewarded for actually giving us a good product.

If we could somehow get "pre Z" with the Full Colors in English with the larger size... I promise to never complain about Viz again, haha.

[jrdemr]

Yeah I'm also quite happy with that decision and with the Full Colors in general. Even with only one arc (soon to be two) available, its my favorite English release of the manga and I'll gladly support it. Viz did a really good job with the Saiyan arc, I hope they continue the trend and I hope they get rewarded for actually giving us a good product.

If we could somehow get "pre Z" with the Full Colors in English with the larger size... I promise to never complain about Viz again, haha.

I'm not making any promises . But yeah, even though it still has some kinks to work out (I'm still not happy about censored Popo), Viz has really matured as a publisher lately and this is by far the best edition of the manga they've ever put out, possibly of any manga they've put out. If they've decided to continue with the Freeza arc, that mean it's been getting support, so I too hope it gets even more support so that we don't need to wait two years between the end of one arc and the start of the next

[Wezenheim]

Yeah I'm also quite happy with that decision and with the Full Colors in general. Even with only one arc (soon to be two) available, its my favorite English release of the manga and I'll gladly support it. Viz did a really good job with the Saiyan arc, I hope they continue the trend and I hope they get rewarded for actually giving us a good product.

If we could somehow get "pre Z" with the Full Colors in English with the larger size... I promise to never complain about Viz again, haha.

I'm not making any promises . But yeah, even though it still has some kinks to work out (I'm still not happy about censored Popo), Viz has really matured as a publisher lately and this is by far the best edition of the manga they've ever put out, possibly of any manga they've put out. If they've decided to continue with the Freeza arc, that mean it's been getting support, so I too hope it gets even more support so that we don't need to wait two years between the end of one arc and the start of the next

Haha well, if they don't try to do what they did with the 3-in-1's again I won't complain. Yeah, the Full Colors aren't perfect, but they are closest we've gotten so far.

If they release the entire series this way, I think it'd definitely become the definitive way to both own and read the manga in English. The fact that they are continuing with another arc, as you said, can only be a good sign. I'd hate to have to wait that long for another, fingers crossed that we won't have to!

[Jak-Ich'an]

Hello!

Does anybody have the latest volumes? (9 to 12 IIRC) Was there Q&As with Toriyama, once again?
If nothing popped up two weeks after their release, I guess it's because there was only old stuff or nothing interesting. :/

[jrdemr]

All the new 12 Full Color volumes just arrived in the mail for me and I noticed something strange in volumes 6-8 of the Boyhood arc. The art on some of the pages is a bit... blurry. Volumes 6 and 7 aren't too bad -- on my quick look through them, I could only find page 227 on vol. 6 and pages 193 and 200 on vol. 7, though it's possible there are more. Anyway, these two seem mostly okay. However, vol. 8 has a lot of these examples, like for instance, pages 8, 33, 40, and 41 - and that's just the beginning of the volume!

I thought it might be just be bad printing, but as it turns out, on the bottom, where the page number is, the letters and colors are just as crisp as on every other page -- meaning only the drawings themselves are blurry.

I even went and compared with my black-and-white tankoubon and the artwork is consistently crisp on all pages, meaning it's also not a problem with the original.

Does anyone else have this issue? Or did I just come across a bad batch?

[eledoremassis02]

All the new 12 Full Color volumes just arrived in the mail for me and I noticed something strange in volumes 6-8 of the Boyhood arc. The art on some of the pages is a bit... blurry. Volumes 6 and 7 aren't too bad -- on my quick look through them, I could only find page 227 on vol. 6 and pages 193 and 200 on vol. 7, though it's possible there are more. Anyway, these two seem mostly okay. However, vol. 8 has a lot of these examples, like for instance, pages 8, 33, 40, and 41 - and that's just the beginning of the volume!

I thought it might be just be bad printing, but as it turns out, on the bottom, where the page number is, the letters and colors are just as crisp as on every other page -- meaning only the drawings themselves are blurry.

I even went and compared with my black-and-white tankoubon and the artwork is consistently crisp on all pages, meaning it's also not a problem with the original.

Does anyone else have this issue? Or did I just come across a bad batch?

Can you upload some pics? Its possible it was a printing error?

[jrdemr]

Can you upload some pics? Its possible it was a printing error?

Even if I took a picture, I'm not quite sure I'd be able to get my point across since the blurriness could just be attributed to low picture resolution (it's not that bad, but clearly visible to the naked eye), hence why I included some of the page numbers where the problem occurs - so people that also have the same volumes can compare and tell me if it's just me or if it's a general problem with the edition.

And as I said, the bottom of the page (the part that contains the page number and the words "DRAGON BALL FULL COLOR" or the current arc's name) is still printed as crisply as on every other page, so it can't be a printing error.

[alakazam^]

Can you upload some pics? Its possible it was a printing error?

Even if I took a picture, I'm not quite sure I'd be able to get my point across since the blurriness could just be attributed to low picture resolution (it's not that bad, but clearly visible to the naked eye), hence why I included some of the page numbers where the problem occurs - so people that also have the same volumes can compare and tell me if it's just me or if it's a general problem with the edition.

And as I said, the bottom of the page (the part that contains the page number and the words "DRAGON BALL FULL COLOR" or the current arc's name) is still printed as crisply as on every other page, so it can't be a printing error.

I checked pages 8 and 33 of volume 8 and I noticed it as well. They aren't blurred, though. The lines seem to be doubled, that's why the eyes don't focus that well.

[jrdemr]

I checked pages 8 and 33 of volume 8 and I noticed it as well. They aren't blurred, though. The lines seem to be doubled, that's why the eyes don't focus that well.

So it's not just me, then. Thanks.

Still, pages 8 and 33 aren't even the worst cases. Pages 40 and 41 are where you can see it really clearly. All you have to do is take one look at Chiaotzu, on the upper right corner of page 40. Especially if you have the black-and-white tankoubon to compare it to, then it becomes painfully obvious.

[alakazam^]

For reference's sake, volume 8, page 40:

[jrdemr]

Eeeeexactly what I meant. Thanks a lot, Alakazam!

[jrdemr]

I just checked the digital edition and the artwork is as crisp as ever, meaning it's not a problem with the source: