Well, saw this on animeondvd.com.
http://animeondvd.com/news/pr.php?pr_view=715
At least now we have some ideas what they plan for the end of the series. The Toriyama interview should be the most interesting part of it, I would think.
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If we're talking about ShonenJumpUSA here, then I may be able to put something up soon, since my local Blockbuster tends to get them up to a week early. We'll see...
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Well, I just got my copy of SJ in the mail, and although I don't have a scanner, here's the interview with Toriyama (I hope I'm allowed to do this 
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SJ: Your first manga, Dr. Slump, is being published in English-- what is your message for English-language fans who have read Dragon Ball but not Dr. Slump-- what should they expect?
Toriyama: You're really doing Dr. Slump? It's so Japanese, I wonder if some of the jokes will translate. And it's such a silly manga, but I love creating a silly manga. That's my specialty. Please read it.
SJ: What techniques or programs do you use for computer coloring of your recent color art?
Toriyama: Originally the reason I started doing computer graphics was that I'd just gotten fed up with the process of coloring with ink, so I started using the OC. This was before it was standard to do so. I thought it was fun. It's difficult to get the subtleties in color, but I no longer wanted to color without the PC. It's not messy. I use Photoshop, but a very old version of Photoshop, version three. If I have time, I also use a program called Painter.
SJ: The Dragon Ball characters have been adapted into videogames, using 3d art. Do you have any interest in using 3D art in your manga? What do you think of cel-shading?
Toriyama: Yes, I am interested, and I'd love to try it, but at my age it would be difficult to try and learn it. So I'm thinking if my kids can learn it, they can teach me. And yes, if you're striving to have a manga quality in the animation, then cel-shading is the way to go.
SJ: Have you ever worked directly with animation?
Toriyama: I have wanted to, but the work level seems so huge, so I haven't. I can see that writing a story for animation looks like a lot of fun, but not drawing the individual animation cels. I certainly can draw as well as the animators.
SJ: In the past few years you've done some short stories for Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan, including some with the character NekoMajin [yes, no spaces!]-- can you explain his origin?
Toriyama: I have a cat, and I use my cat as a model. I thought of the character Kuririn from Dragon Ball, and then I further added comical elements.
SJ: Do you have a lot of pets?
Toriyama: Yes, including lots of fish and turtles.
SJ: Today, when you draw a short-story manga, do you draw it all in a few days in one intensive burst of energy-- like when you were doing a weekly manga-- or do you draw it more leisurely and slowly, a few hours a day or less, over a longer period of time?
Toriyama: I really want to work on it a lot at the time, and I try, but for some reason my arm just doesn't work until it's three days prior to a deadline. And I always regret it every single time. My hand starts to ache, and I'm not able to sleep-- I just stay up all night.
SJ: When you drew a children's book, Toccio the Angel, did you think of your own children's taste?
Toriyama: I actually started it a long time ago, so in the beginning, yes, I had my kids in mind. But I took so long to finish it, that by the time I did, my kids were all grown up, already in junior high school, and weren't interested in that sort of thing anymore. And as I was drawing, I started integrating things that I like, such as animals.
SJ: If Dragon Ball's Goku had not been part monkey, is there another animal that you would have used to create your main character?
Toriyama: I didn't actually intend Goku to be based on an animal, per se. In the beginning he was just a human being, but I was told by my editor at the time that he didn't look appealing or make a strong impression. I sort of wanted an ordinary person, but it wasn't approved, so I gave him a tail.
SJ: In the beginning of Dragon Ball, there are many animal-headed people-- panda people, crocodile people, cow people, cat people, etc.-- in the backgrounds. But by the end of the series, there are almost no animal-headed people. Was this a result of the increasing "seriousness" of the story?
Toriyama: It could be the seriousness, but it's probably that I'd forgotten by the end to include them. In the beginning I was still working under the effects of Dr. Slump.
SJ: Several readers have asked if Nemekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water.
Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with this species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. [The word for "slug" in Japanese is "Namekuji.]" I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites.
Along with this interview, are quite a few of the kanzenban images, SJ's top 10 best fights, Funniest Fight, Shortest Fight, and Longest Fight. There's also a small run-down of Dr. Slump, Sand Land, and a guide of what's in every volume of DB/Z manga.
Someone get a scanner image for those unlucky enough to not be subscribers!
):SJ: Your first manga, Dr. Slump, is being published in English-- what is your message for English-language fans who have read Dragon Ball but not Dr. Slump-- what should they expect?
Toriyama: You're really doing Dr. Slump? It's so Japanese, I wonder if some of the jokes will translate. And it's such a silly manga, but I love creating a silly manga. That's my specialty. Please read it.
SJ: What techniques or programs do you use for computer coloring of your recent color art?
Toriyama: Originally the reason I started doing computer graphics was that I'd just gotten fed up with the process of coloring with ink, so I started using the OC. This was before it was standard to do so. I thought it was fun. It's difficult to get the subtleties in color, but I no longer wanted to color without the PC. It's not messy. I use Photoshop, but a very old version of Photoshop, version three. If I have time, I also use a program called Painter.
SJ: The Dragon Ball characters have been adapted into videogames, using 3d art. Do you have any interest in using 3D art in your manga? What do you think of cel-shading?
Toriyama: Yes, I am interested, and I'd love to try it, but at my age it would be difficult to try and learn it. So I'm thinking if my kids can learn it, they can teach me. And yes, if you're striving to have a manga quality in the animation, then cel-shading is the way to go.
SJ: Have you ever worked directly with animation?
Toriyama: I have wanted to, but the work level seems so huge, so I haven't. I can see that writing a story for animation looks like a lot of fun, but not drawing the individual animation cels. I certainly can draw as well as the animators.
SJ: In the past few years you've done some short stories for Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan, including some with the character NekoMajin [yes, no spaces!]-- can you explain his origin?
Toriyama: I have a cat, and I use my cat as a model. I thought of the character Kuririn from Dragon Ball, and then I further added comical elements.
SJ: Do you have a lot of pets?
Toriyama: Yes, including lots of fish and turtles.
SJ: Today, when you draw a short-story manga, do you draw it all in a few days in one intensive burst of energy-- like when you were doing a weekly manga-- or do you draw it more leisurely and slowly, a few hours a day or less, over a longer period of time?
Toriyama: I really want to work on it a lot at the time, and I try, but for some reason my arm just doesn't work until it's three days prior to a deadline. And I always regret it every single time. My hand starts to ache, and I'm not able to sleep-- I just stay up all night.
SJ: When you drew a children's book, Toccio the Angel, did you think of your own children's taste?
Toriyama: I actually started it a long time ago, so in the beginning, yes, I had my kids in mind. But I took so long to finish it, that by the time I did, my kids were all grown up, already in junior high school, and weren't interested in that sort of thing anymore. And as I was drawing, I started integrating things that I like, such as animals.
SJ: If Dragon Ball's Goku had not been part monkey, is there another animal that you would have used to create your main character?
Toriyama: I didn't actually intend Goku to be based on an animal, per se. In the beginning he was just a human being, but I was told by my editor at the time that he didn't look appealing or make a strong impression. I sort of wanted an ordinary person, but it wasn't approved, so I gave him a tail.
SJ: In the beginning of Dragon Ball, there are many animal-headed people-- panda people, crocodile people, cow people, cat people, etc.-- in the backgrounds. But by the end of the series, there are almost no animal-headed people. Was this a result of the increasing "seriousness" of the story?
Toriyama: It could be the seriousness, but it's probably that I'd forgotten by the end to include them. In the beginning I was still working under the effects of Dr. Slump.
SJ: Several readers have asked if Nemekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water.
Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with this species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. [The word for "slug" in Japanese is "Namekuji.]" I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites.
Along with this interview, are quite a few of the kanzenban images, SJ's top 10 best fights, Funniest Fight, Shortest Fight, and Longest Fight. There's also a small run-down of Dr. Slump, Sand Land, and a guide of what's in every volume of DB/Z manga.
Someone get a scanner image for those unlucky enough to not be subscribers!
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*Sighs*....And now TORIYAMA-SENSEI'S INTERVIEW with the 10 BEST DB FIGHTS!!
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Darn! You beat me to it! Your ninja skills are impressive!DaemonCorps wrote:Well, I just got my copy of SJ in the mail, and although I don't have a scanner, here's the interview with Toriyama (I hope I'm allowed to do this
I found it really odd that Vegetto is called "Vegerot" in the Viz manga. I mean, I understand the logic behind it, but for me it's just another weird thing to throw into the pile with "Boo the Djinn" and Mr. Popo not having any lips.
What's scarier than a DBZ H-game?
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuBVyPsL5g]Fear the dancing![/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuBVyPsL5g]Fear the dancing![/url]
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Thanks for scanning those.Sebastian (SB) wrote:*Sighs*....And now TORIYAMA-SENSEI'S INTERVIEW with the 10 BEST DB FIGHTS!!
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On Picture051.jpg, I find it amusing that they say Kuririn, Gohan, Yajirobe, and Goku VS Vegeta is "Possibly the best fight in the entire series". Yet, it's ranked number 6 on their list of the 10 best fights in the entire series.
Why are gohan and Yajirobe's clothes those colours though? Is that what they were originally coloured as..?
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Leotaku wrote: Thanks for scanning those.
On Picture051.jpg, I find it amusing that they say Kuririn, Gohan, Yajirobe, and Goku VS Vegeta is "Possibly the best fight in the entire series". Yet, it's ranked number 6 on their list of the 10 best fights in the entire series.
Why are gohan and Yajirobe's clothes those colours though? Is that what they were originally coloured as..?
Yes it's quite amusing, but that's why they said it's quite possibly the best fight in the entire series. Aside from that, I believe these are the opinions of the people behind the "Dragon Ball" manga over there at US Jump. It's also looks like in next month's issue there going to be doing a poll for the reader on what they think are the 10 Best Fights. Also, just for the amusement I'm going to list my top 10.
1. Son Goku vs. Piccolo Jr. (Majunior)
2. Son Goku, Son Gohan, Kuririn, & Yajirobe vs. Vegeta
3. Son Goku vs. Piccolo Daimao
4. Son Goku vs. Freeza (alas "Freeza War", but specifically that fight)
5. Tenshinhan vs. Son Goku (23rd Tenkaichi Budokai)
6. Son Goku vs. Cell
7. Son Goku vs. Tenshinhan (22nd Tenkaichi Budokai)
8. Son Gohan vs. Cell
9. Son Goku vs. Majin Vegeta
10. Vegito (Vegerot) vs. Super Buu
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