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Translation Update: “Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!” Image #59
Published by 23 October 2022, 2:00 PM EDTComment

Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his October 2022 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of everyone’s favorite, absolutely memorable Red Ribbon Army member, Dock:

Dock

CO of B Company, under the command of General Blue

He moved on Kame House on General Blue’s orders, but was defeated at the hands of his intended target, the Turtle Hermit. Even these incidental characters, with the feeling of “yeah, there’d definitely be a guy like that,” have their charm!

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.

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Three Volumes of Collected Dragon Ball Manga (Heroes + Super Hero) Releasing in December 2022
Published by 21 October 2022, 10:26 PM EDTComment

Three volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release all on the same day this December in Japan:

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero — Jump Comics

A “Jump Comics” edition of the theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero — presumed to be an “anime comic” or “animanga” adaptation (screenshots with dialog bubbles and sound effects), as two novelizations are already on the market — will retail for ¥1,650 on 02 December 2022.

The book is available for pre-order on Amazon Japan.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! — Volume 1

The first collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama will also release 02 December 2022 in Japan for ¥572 spanning 176 pages.

The volume is available for pre-order on Amazon Japan.

Yoshitaka Nagayama debuted in a supplemental booklet packed in with the December 2013 issue of Saikyō Jump, with Dragon Ball Heroes: Rookie Charisma Mission Episode 0 depicting the daily life and “training” of Engineer Yoshito and new Battle Navigators Tsubasa and Momo-chan in a cartoony style. The series eventually received its own standard serialization in Saikyō Jump beginning in the July 2014 issue, followed by the traditional story serials of Dark Demon Realm Mission! beginning in the September 2016 issue, Universe Mission!! beginning in the May 2018 issue, Big Bang Mission!!! beginning in the May 2020 issue, followed by (the current series) Ultra God Mission!!!! beginning in the April 2022 issue.

All of Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Universe Mission!!, and Big Bang Mission!!! have been previously compiled and released.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! — Volume 2

The second collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series by Yūji Kasai will also release 02 December 2022 in Japan for ¥594 spanning 192 pages.

The volume is available for pre-order on Amazon Japan.

A prototype/one-shot for Avatars debuted as a single chapter in the January 2021 issue of Saikyō Jump (under the title “Super Dragon Ball Heroes Side-Story: Avatar Story!!”), followed by the serialization of Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! beginning in the September 2021 issue, coinciding with Saikyō Jump‘s refresh. Much like Charisma Mission before it (and likewise similar to DeSpo FighterZ for Dragon Ball FighterZ), the Avatars series showcases a group of young protagonists taking on the world of Dragon Ball Heroes with comical showcases of the various cards and mechanics.

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Viz “Dragon Ball Super” Manga English Translation Collected Edition Vol. 18 Releasing June 2023
Published by 21 October 2022, 10:08 PM EDTComment

Viz’s eighteenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga will be released 06 June 2023, covering chapters 77-80 (a la its Japanese counterpart):

Granolah and Goku’s battle reaches its climax! And Granolah is willing to put his life on the line to take Vegeta down with him too! But suddenly, Monaito appears with an important message for all three fighters—the truth about what happened on planet Cereal all those years ago…

The volume is available for pre-order at Amazon at its $9.99 MSRP.

The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. The manga ran monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine from its debut through the series’ eighty-seventh chapter back in August in the magazine’s October 2022 issue, at which point it went on indefinite hiatus, “… in order to prepare the next arc”.

Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series completed its run with the Tournament of Power, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” and “Granolla the Survivor” arcs.

Viz releases free digital chapters of the series day and date with the series’ publication in Japan, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017; the company’s seventeenth collected volume is due out in December 2022.

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. Crunchyroll (by way of the merger with FUNimation) owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub having wrapped its broadcast on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its tenth and final box set in 2020. A complete steelbook “Limited Edition” was released by Crunchyroll last month.

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40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” #15: Mikio Ikemoto
Published by 17 October 2022, 4:35 PM EDT1 Comment

The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the magazine’s back cover.

Following the previous fourteen entries, this month’s November 2022 issue brings us Mikio Ikemoto (Boruto artist) and their take on the series’ 7th volume cover:

Ikemoto commented:

Congratulations to Dragon Ball on its 40th anniversary!! I feel nothing but the utmost gratitude to be included in this project. Dragon Ball has kind of been my source of nutrition ever since I was a kid. The cover of volume 7, which I like so much and had the privilege of being able to choose, has this sense of vigor and pop-ness, a stylish ride, and also a healthy dose of sexiness; that is to say, it has all the appeal of Dragon Ball crammed into this one picture. The fact that it looks extremely easy to draw is another of its strong points. I will forever be unable to look at it with anything other than admiration.

Saikyō Jump is currently a monthly magazine published in Japan by Shueisha under the “Jump” line of magazines. The magazine began as a quarterly publication in 2012, went monthly in 2013, went bimonthly in late-2014, and returned to a monthly format last year (including a digital release for the first time). The magazine’s focus is spin-off and supplementary manga series aimed at a young audience, while also including game promotions, news coverage, and more. The magazine currently serializes content such as Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series, Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series, and the Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic. For calendar year 2019, Shueisha reported Saikyō Jump‘s circulation down at 130,000, with readership as 58.5% upper elementary school, 28% lower middle school, 11% middle school, and 2.5% high school or older.

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New (Partial) Translation: Nintendo Mini Famicom Jump Edition Kazuhiko Torishima Interview
Published by 07 October 2022, 12:07 PM EDTComment

Following up on their original Nintendo Classic Mini Famicom (and subsequent NES edition internationally), Nintendo teamed with Shueisha to produce a Jump-branded/specific edition of the mini Famicom console in July 2018. The mini console contained various games for series originally featured in Weekly Shōnen Jump, including three for the Dragon Ball franchise.

Alongside the mini console, a guide book was released covering the various games and providing strategy guides for players. The book concludes with an extensive interview with Kazuhiko Torishima, a name readers of Kanzenshuu are no doubt familiar with. Serving as editor-in-chief of various Shueisha magazines and direct editor to Akira Toriyama himself, Torishima also helped usher in the era of Dragon Quest through a convoluted series of white lies and constant nudging at his peers.

While the interview in the mini console guide book covers a wealth of stories concerning various series, we are providing a partial translation here: the four questions directly associated with the Dragon Ball franchise and its games.

Read the Translation

Stay tuned to Kanzenshuu in the coming weeks, as this is a very specific prelude to a series of new translation work coming your way regarding the entire history of Dragon Ball‘s video games!

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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes: 12th Anniversary Super Guide” Releasing November 2022
Published by 22 September 2022, 2:56 PM EDTComment

Following the now-traditional schedule, Shueisha and other online retailers have listed a 10 November 2022 release date and ¥1,540 + tax price tag for a forthcoming Super Dragon Ball Heroes: 12th Anniversary Super Guide.

The 2022 book follows several previous anniversary guide books: the 5th Anniversary Mission book in November 2015, the 8th Anniversary Super Guide book in November 2018, the 9th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2019, the 10th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2020, and the 11th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2021. Each book covers card additions, ongoing storylines, interviews with production staff, and more.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Ultimate Mission!!, and Big Bang Mission!!! series) currently runs in Shueisha’s monthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC internationally in April 2019.

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Translation Update: “Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!” Image #58
Published by 21 September 2022, 10:17 AM EDTComment

Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his September 2022 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of the Elder Kaiōshin and witch prior to their Potara earring fusion:

Elder Kaiōshin back when he was younger

The two people that ended up fusing when the witch just up and stole one of his Potara.

I’m really curious to know what the relationship was like between these two.

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.

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“Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot” to Receive Second DLC Season Pass + Native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S Versions in 2023
Published by 16 September 2022, 11:27 AM EDTComment

In conjunction with Tokyo Game Show this week, Bandai Namco has announced a slew of updates coming in 2023 to Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, the “Goku Experience Action/RPG” video game originally released in January 2020 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (with a later release on the Nintendo Switch).

Updates are set to include:

  • A second season pass of paid downloadable content comprised of three releases, the first of which focusing on Bardock
  • Native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S editions of the game featuring enhanced graphics and a framerate bump to 60fps

Gameplay at 60fps (as opposed to the original console versions at 30ps) is currently already available to players on PC.

The first entry in the second wave of DLC packs is entitled BARDOCK: たったひとりの最終決戦 (BARDOCK: Tatta Hitori no Saishū Kessen; “Bardock: A Final, Solitary Battle”), a direct pull from and clear nod to the title of the character’s original 1990 television special. The pack will be called Bardock: Alone Against Fate in the English localization.

Developed by CyberConnect2 for Bandai Namco, the action role-playing game released 16 January 2020 in Japan and 17 January 2020 internationally on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam). A Nintendo Switch edition came later in September 2021. The initial wave of paid downloadable content across the game’s first season pass covered material from the 2013 film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, the 2015 film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, and the 1993 Trunks television special (with extra post-credits material), respectively.

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40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” #14: Kōji Inada
Published by 08 September 2022, 10:04 AM EDTComment

The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the magazine’s back cover.

Following the previous thirteen entries, this month’s October 2022 issue brings us Kōji Inada (Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Beet the Vandel Buster) and their take on the series’ 3rd volume cover:

Inada commented:

A celebration of Dragon Ball‘s 40th anniversary!! I redrew the cover of the third volume, The Tenka’ichi Budōkai Begins!! In Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, there’s also an arc called “The Great Martial Arts Tournament of Romos Kingdom”… Since they’re pretty similar, I took the liberty of adding some more characters. Sorry about that… (sweats)

Saikyō Jump is currently a monthly magazine published in Japan by Shueisha under the “Jump” line of magazines. The magazine began as a quarterly publication in 2012, went monthly in 2013, went bimonthly in late-2014, and returned to a monthly format last year (including a digital release for the first time). The magazine’s focus is spin-off and supplementary manga series aimed at a young audience, while also including game promotions, news coverage, and more. The magazine currently serializes content such as Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series, Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series, and the Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic. For calendar year 2019, Shueisha reported Saikyō Jump‘s circulation down at 130,000, with readership as 58.5% upper elementary school, 28% lower middle school, 11% middle school, and 2.5% high school or older.

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Japanese “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” 4K, Blu-ray, & DVD Home Release Set for December 2022
Published by 07 September 2022, 2:44 PM EDTComment

Toei Animation has announced the forthcoming home video release of this year’s new theatrical film, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, set for 07 December 2022 across various standard and “limited edition” packages on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, and DVD.

Tentative extras for the various “limited edition” versions include a 60-page booklet and postcard set, with on-disc extra features including trailer and commercial collections, event footage, and more.

Versions of the film’s home video release will include:

  • 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Steelbook Special Limited Edition: ¥10,780
  • Blu-ray Limited Edition: ¥7,480
  • DVD Limited Edition: ¥6,380
  • 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Standard Edition: ¥6,380
  • Blu-ray Standard Edition: ¥5,280
  • DVD Standard Edition: ¥4,180

Different retailers will offer their own unique pre-order incentives, including clear files, keychains, and more.

The story, script, and character designs for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero were crafted by original manga author Akira Toriyama. Shueisha’s executive producer Akio Iyoku noted that the movie’s story takes place after the events in Dragon Ball Super: Broly, but before the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai, and features the revival of the notorious Red Ribbon Army. The film’s director is Tetsuro Kodama, who was most recently the CG Sequence Director for the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film, with Hoon Jung-jae taking over the CG Director role after being a CG effects artist in the preceding two films, Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’. The film’s theatrical score is composed by Naoki Satō. The movie was released theatrically in Japan on 11 June 2022, following a delay decided upon in conjunction with a Toei network hack. Various international theatrical screenings for the film began last month.