Dragon Ball Tankōbon Volume 2
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| A Critical Moment for the Dragon Balls | |||
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Original  2009 Version  Viz  | |||
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10 January 1986 (print edition) 12 October 2012 (digital edition) | ||
| Publisher | Shueisha | ||
| Catalog No. | ISBN 4-08-851832-2 | ||
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| Format | New Book Format (11 × 17 cm) | ||
| Pages | 192 pages | ||
| Chapters | Dragon Ball Chapters 12 to 24 | ||
| Viz Publication | |||
| Title | Wish Upon a Dragon | ||
| Released | 16 April 2003 | ||
| Translation | Mari Morimoto | ||
| Adaptation | Gerard Jones | ||
| Editor | Trish Ledoux | ||
"A Critical Moment for the Dragon Balls" is the second individual tankōbon volume of the Japanese manga series Dragon Ball. This volume comprises chapters 12 thru 24 as originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1985 #12 to 1985 #24. The volume was first available in print on 10 January 1986 and released digitally on 12 October 2012. The entire volume is printed in greyscale.
Introduction
The volume's introduction from author Akira Toriyama, as printed on the front flap of the dust cover:
Happy New Year. ...Which means that I, who made my debut in comics at my 23rd New Year's, have now come to my 30th. I've thoroughly managed to become a "real" cartoonist. Anyhow, this is a tough business: it seems like, if you've got work to do, then you're so busy that there's no time for sleep, but if you don't have any work, then you don't know what to do with yourself, and there's nothing to do but sleep. I really hate being busy, but I also don't like not knowing what to do, so I'm doing my best.
— Akira Toriyama
This feature is omitted in the Japanese digital edition. Viz includes their own English translation of Toriyama's words on the first page of their print and digital editions with the illustration printed in greyscale.
List of Chapters
This volume omits eight of the original chapter title pages. The title page used for Chapter 18 in Weekly Shōnen Jump was re-purposed as the title page for Chapter 19, presumably because the Chapter 19 title page was used as this volume's cover illustration, and there would have otherwise been an awkwardly-placed blank page in that spot. The chapter premiere dates listed below are based on the sale date of their respective issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, which is when that issue of the magazine officially went on sale.
Supplemental Images
The following supplemental images are included throughout the volume:
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Author Introduction -
Volume Title Page -
Table of Contents
Notes
- All of the supplemental images shown above are original illustrations drawn exclusively for this release by Akira Toriyama.
Q&A Session
This volume contains a short, two-page Q&A session with author Akira Toriyama entitled, "Toriyama-san's Dragon Ball Ask-Me-Anything Corner", where he answered questions sent in by readers. Anyone was able to send in a postcard to the address listed in the book, and individuals whose submissions ran in a subsequent volume were promised a signed illustration from Toriyama himself. This solicitation remained in place in all printings through mid-1995 (the end of the series' run in Weekly Shōnen Jump), after which it was removed.
The Q&A are not included in the Japanese digital edition. They are not included in the Viz English publication at all, print or digital. They are partially translated in Dragon Ball VIZBIG Edition Volume 1 and fully translated in Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Edition Volume 1.
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