Our “weekly” podcast, then named Daizenshuu EX – The Podcast, began in November 2005 as a new way to reach out to our audience, extend that audience, and simply have fun with the franchise we love so much. Though we updated the name to Kanzenshuu – The Podcast in April 2012 with the launch of this website, we remain the best, most authoritative, entertaining, and only Dragon Ball podcast you will ever need!
Each episode, the Kanzenshuu staff discuss the latest news in the world of Dragon Ball from across the globe before heading into a core topic — whether it be an in-depth discussion of the way in which the story and franchise was produced, theories for in-universe scenarios and “What If?” scenes, interviews with those actually involved with the franchise, thorough reviews of video games or home video releases, we have you covered! We wrap things up with the month’s upcoming releases, questions from the listeners, and much more! We regularly have contests, broadcast live (watch our Twitter and Facebook!), and have a great time sharing our love of the Dragon Ball franchise with you all each and every week.
Podcast Episode #0118 — 03 March 2008
Episode #0118 of the podcast is available for download! Sorry it’s a day late, but as you’ll hear in the actual episode, the internet connection here at Daizenshuu EX headquarters has been… well, it hasn’t existed much over the last week or so. Yikes. So while Julian was unfortunately thusly not able to join us for the show, we do have another amazing round in our on-going “Manga Review of Awesomeness” for you. Jeff popped in to do Volume 14 with us, which concludes the Piccolo-Daimaô arc and gets on in to the 23rd Tenka-ichi Budôkai. Good times! Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0118! VegettoEX and Meri try and catch up on the news and general shenanigans from the last week, which proved to be difficult with no internet. Jeff popped in to do another whopping round of the “Manga Review of Awesomeness”. We’re up to Volume 14; Piccolo-Daimao has been defeated, and the 23rd Tenka-ichi Budokai has begun!
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Podcast Episode #0117 — 25 February 2008
Episode #0117 of the podcast is available for download! Sorry that we’re a date late in posting it; I’m not actually sure whose fault it is :P. This week we checked out an amazing project that’s just recently been completed:
That’s right, one of the official DragonBall “side stories”, In The Name Of Piccolo-Daimaô, has been obtained, scanned, and fully translated! The above link will take you to the website of desirecampbell, one of our forum regulars, who helped in the project. Read along and listen in for our thoughts. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0117! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian discuss “IN THE NAME OF PICCOLO-DAIMAO”, a special side-story manga chapter collaborated upon by Koyama Takao and Maeda Minoru. Where did this come from, how can you read it, and are there any more of these? DBZ ABCs, some e-mails, Mike’s broken pop-filter, and other great things round out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0116 — 17 February 2008
Episode #0116 of the podcast is available for download! We took it easy this week and gave some responses about doing stupid things with the characters and their names in response to a great e-mail. Oh, and don’t mind us completely forgetting that FUNimation’s faux-“remastered” DBZ season four and the Bardock/Trunks double-feature come out this week. Then again, no-one wrote in to remind us to mention it in the releases :P. Good times this show. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0116! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian discuss some of the stupid things they’ve done with the DB characters and their names back in ye olden days in response to an e-mail. Tons of news (game reviews, upcoming release concerns, video games, music, etc.), Julian’s DBZ ABCs, and a slew of your e-mails round out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0115 — 10 February 2008
Episode #0115 of the podcast is available for download! We’re back on time for all you constantly-refreshing folks, out there ^_~. This week we all took at look at the state of the domestic anime industry as it pertains specifically to FUNimation and DragonBall as a franchise. Who is this company, where did they come from, and how did they manage to exploit one single series to allow themselves to become number one in the industry? Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0115! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian discuss the state of the domestic anime industry as it specifically relates to FUNimation and “DragonBall”. Where did this company come from, and how exactly did they manage to exploit one single series to allow themselves to become number one in the industry? Julian’s DBZ ABCs return in Japanese form, February’s got some releases, and some fun e-mails round out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0114 — 02 February 2008
Episode #0114 of the podcast is available for download! Sorry about the slight delay; blame Comcast. Anyway, kinoko (our resident Tenshinhan fangirl) came down to record the episode with us, since the character’s actually still relevant to the story for a little bit more. Lots of great discussions came up during our review, and I totally loved listening to it again. We also announced the winner of our 10th anniversary contest… did you win?! Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0114! VegettoEX, Meri, Julian, Jeff, and Meghan all get together to do Volume 13 of the “Manga Review of Awesomeness”. The Piccolo-Daimao arc continues with its full-force as Goku returns to the scene. The characters are starting to show a huge change, and the series isn’t looking back. Meri’s Top 5, February’s releases, fun with e-mails, and the winner of our 10th anniversary contest round out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0113 — 27 January 2008
Episode #0113 of the podcast is available for download! That’s right, we’re on an absolute roll with the updates this week. For this particular episode, Meri and I were all alone and checked out something rather appropriate… Trunks! We compared “TRUNKS: THE STORY” (the special one-chapter story explaining Trunks’ past) with the second DBZ TV special, which is pretty much an expanded-upon version of the same story. Lots of stuff to compare and contrast in there, most notable of which is Trunks going SSJ for the first time. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0113! VegettoEX and Meri compare “TRUNKS: THE STORY” (manga) to the second DBZ TV special. As opposed to the first TV special, the manga came first this time. How do the two differ? Is one any better than the other? Some fun with an e-mail regarding randomness and expanded character backgrounds, combined with all-around awesomeness rounds out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0112 — 20 January 2008
Episode #0112 of the podcast is available for download! Julian went incognito for another week, so we took it upon ourselves to get those subtitles working with our copy of the first DragonBall movie from the Dragon Box, invited Jeff over for a little more torture, and reviewed the movie! It’s almost like a “Manga Review of Awesomeness”, except it’s a movie. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0112! VegettoEX, Meri, and Jeff review a self-subtitled version of the very first DragonBall movie. Is it worth watching? Are American fans missing out on anything? Julian’s nowhere to be found, so Mike continues answering Japanese questions all on his own, and we keep plugging our 10th anniversary contest.
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Podcast Episode #0111 — 13 January 2008
Episode #0111 of the podcast is available for download! Has it really been a week since the last show and general website update? Sheesh! I guess there’s not a whole lot of significant things going on in the Dragon World this month. We’ll make our own significant discussions, however, with Volume 12 in our on-going “Manga Review of Awesomeness” series! The 22nd Tenka-ichi Budôkai has come to an end, and we are introduced to our first true super-villain in the entire series, Piccolo-Daimaô. Good time! Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0111! VegettoEX, Meri, and Jeff tackle Volume 12 in our “Manga Review of Awesomness” for the month. The 22nd Tenka-ichi Budokai comes to an end, and we have our first true “super-villain” in Piccolo-Daimao. Stories galore, January’s releases, your e-mails, and our contest round out the episode.
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Podcast Episode #0110 — 06 January 2008
Episode #0110 of the podcast is available for download! This week, we took a look back at 2007 as a whole and discussed all the big news. While it seems lately that Atari and the live-action movie monopolize all conversations, it’s interesting to go back and see exactly how much stuff has gone on during the year. We checked out how our 2007 predictions matched up against reality, gave out some “Best Of” awards, and made some predictions for 2008. In addition to all those shenanigans, we checked out January’s releases, your e-mails, and even started up a contest! Read below for more info on that, but the podcast is what you’re here for, right? Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0110! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian go through all of the big news from 2007. It was a year of new products, new video games, delays, sales, deaths, and strange music coincidences! How did our predictions stack up against reality? What were our “Best Of” items? What do we see coming in 2008? January’s releases, your e-mails, and a contest to celebrate 10 years of “Daizenshuu EX” round out the episode!
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Podcast Episode #0109 — 30 December 2007
Episode #0109 of the podcast is available for download! This week, we simply couldn’t arrange our 2007 retrospective (Julian took off to Tokyo, and there was too much news from the last two weeks). So what did we do? Well, instead of a “Catching Up On E-mails” episode… we did a “Catching Up On News” episode! That’s right, the absolutely ridiculous amount of news from the last two weeks was our news/topic for the episode. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0109! VegettoEX and Meri catch up on the ridiculous amount of news from the last two weeks. Another seiyuu death, FUNimation DVD news, live-action movie news, Japanese figure news, Second Life appearances, “Burst Limit” updates, Jump Festa reports, and special personal news complete the episode!
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