Another Monday brings us another update to the “Animation Styles Guide” here at Kanzenshuu. This time around we detail the work of Katsumi Aoshima, a (seemingly) freelance artist that brought his supervision and key-animation talent to our favorite franchise. While the majority of his work was throughout the first TV series, Aoshima did contribute a bit to some of the earlier “Z”-era episodes, as well.
Enjoy! Look for more updates to our ever-growing “Animation Styles Guide” in the near future.
The quest to port over more of our pre-existing content continues today in the “Episode Guide” with the addition of Dragon Ball Z episodes 36 to 74. This set of episodes cover the events on Planet Namek prior to the confrontation with Freeza, ending with the defeat of the Ginyu Special-Squad. In addition to these episodes, we’ve also included the first Dragon Ball Z TV special covering Goku’s father, Bardock.
The tentative plan right now is to finish porting over the remaining Dragon Ball Z episodes before moving on to their respective manga chapter pages. However, we have been keeping up with all the episode’s theme materials in the “Theme Guide” and the “Lyrics” section, so be sure to check those out too. In the meantime, we’ll have some more content and news coming your way very soon!
We are back at you this week on our show with a fun topic about characters and their power. More specifically, our buddy Kaboom stops by to dive into the difference between a scouter reading a character’s power and someone sensing it via their own internal abilities, as well as the differences between characters who can and cannot both mask and amplify their battle power. Ever wonder why it was that Nappa was “powering up” if he could not hide his power? So did we!
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Episode #0308! VegettoEX and Kaboom discuss the ways in which characters are at advantages and disadvantages depending on the method by which they sense each others’ power. Additionally, if some characters cannot mask or amplify their power, what are they doing when they otherwise appear to be powering up? A quick news recap gets you on your way to round out the episode!
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It’s yet another week, and we have yet another new animator to highlight! This week we finish up with the Seigasha animation studio and add animator Kazuya Hisada to the “Animation Styles Guide”. Hisada was the last animation supervisor in the series from the Seigasha animation studio, following Tomekichi Takeuchi, and would rotate the role of animation supervisor with Masahiro Shimanuki throughout the remainder of Dragon Ball Z. However, Hisada would later completely take over the role of animation supervisor for Seigasha in Dragon Ball GT and eventually went on to become the character designer for One Piece.
As a special bonus this week we’ve dug deep into our research vault of awesomeness and pulled out a behind the scenes look at the making of One Piece, which just so happens to feature a brief appearance by its character designer, Kazuya Hisada, providing us with an actual photo. This behind the scenes episode of “Real Scope” aired on Fuji TV on 26 June 2010 and examines the making of One Piece episode 449, although the last five minutes of the episode focus heavily on the voice acting in Dragon Ball Kai, and more specifically Mayumi Tanaka’s (voice of Kuririn and Monkey D. Luffy) involvement in both series. You can watch all the relevant material from behind the scenes episode on YouTube here, here, and here. Anyway, you can read more about Hisada in the new guide, but be sure to check back in a week for our next featured animator!
A new (still mostly-placeholder) website for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission has opened at dbhu.channel.or.jp:
The new game, a mish-mash of a sort of port and enhancement for the card-based arcade game in Japan originally announced back in November 2010, is due out in Winter 2013.
Originally hinted at via Andriasang and confirmed via the pages of the October 2012 issue of V-Jump (due out next week and available via CDJapan, Play-Asia, and/or Amazon Japan) is Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan. The game, a portable-port and tie-in with the existing card-based arcade game in Japan, is due out at some point in Winter 2013.
The game is set to contain over 200 characters spread across more than 800 cards. Also included will be a story mode and wireless connectivity, including that with the actual arcade game.
Dragon Ball Heroes is a sequel to and extension of prior card-based quasi-fighting/strategy arcade games in Japan (such as the Bakuretsu Impact games), all of which have used game developer Dimps’ models and assets from the Dragon Ball Z / Budokai series (PS2/Gamecube) as a base. The games continue to receive additional updates such as new characters (including, most recently, Super Saiyan 3 Gogeta) and new promotional videos, many of which are mistaken (or purposefully misrepresented) as a “new series”.
The last portable game for the franchise — Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden for the original Nintendo DS — totally skipped international shelves. With the Nintendo 3DS being region-locked combined with Dragon Ball Heroes as an arcade game never leaving its home shores, this could potentially be another missed gem for us foreign fans. That being said, nothing has actually been announced in that regard with this being so early in its life cycle, so we will just have to wait and see.
Big thanks to Super Saiyan Prime for the heads-up.
Things have been busy around these parts (what, with the debut of the “Animation Styles Guide” and all!), so this week on the show we decided to catch up with you all and the plethora of questions that have been coming in over the last few weeks. Our audience always come prepared, this time shooting us questions regarding music, the title of next year’s new movie, fansites and magazines from the 1990s, the various trading and collectible card releases, and even strength comparisons!
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Episode #0307! VegettoEX and Hujio catch up on a little bit of movie and merchandise news before diving into audience questions. This time around we debate everything from music, the title of next year’s new movie, fansites and magazines from the 1990s, the various trading and collectible card releases, and even a little bit of character strength comparisons! Random tidbits, stories, and site content discussions round out the episode.
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This week we add animator Masahiro Shimanuki to the “Animation Styles Guide”! Shimanuki was the second animation supervisor in the series from the Seigasha animation studio, following Tomekichi Takeuchi, and would rotate the role of animation supervisor with Kazuya Hisada throughout the remainder of Dragon Ball Z. This would be Shimanuki’s first major stint as an animation supervisor, but he would go on to be an animation supervisor for other significant series produced by Toei Animation, such as One Piece and Toriko. As always you can read more about Shimanuki in the guide, but be sure to come back in a week to check out our next featured animator!
Toei Animation’s official website for the Dragon Ball Z 2013 movie has been updated with a few “new” previously seen items. The first new item is the teaser trailer that was previously seen at Saikyō V-Jump Festa and was later broadcast on a Fuji TV morning show. The teaser trailer features some great one-liners, such as “All Humanity has Been Waiting”, “Televised in Over 40 Countries”, “230 Million Copies Printed”, and the announcement of a “Super-Wide Release” on the date of the movie’s premiere, 30 March 2013. The trailer is roughly 37 seconds in length and features footage not originally shown on the recorded footage from Fuji TV. You can view the trailer in its entirety below.
Akira Toriyama’s previous comments about the movie that were originally published in Weekly Shōnen Jump have also been added to the website. However, Toriyama’s comments have now been translated and are available in English. Not only that, but the entire website is now available in English!
Right now both websites (Japanese and English) are exactly the same, but we’ll be sure to keep an eye open for any new developments or information over the coming months. Be sure to check Kanzenshuu for the latest movie news and updates — we’ve got you covered!
This week we add veteran animator Tomekichi Takeuchi to the “Animation Styles Guide”! Takeuchi was the first animator we’d see in the series from the Seigasha animation studio, and was involved as an animation supervisor throughout Dragon Ball and up through the first part of Dragon Ball Z (episode 63). He was also the oldest animation supervisor involved with the series at the time. As always you can read more about Takeuchi in the guide, but be sure to come back in a week to check out the next featured animator!
