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Dragon Ball Z: Gokū Hishōden (“Goku’s Soaring Legend”) was the first of only two Dragon Ball-specific games made for the original Nintendo Game Boy. The crossover trivia game Cult Jump on the Game Boy came first in 1993 and Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors for the Game Boy Color hit later in 2002, but 1994’s Gokū Hishōden and its sequel Gokū Gekitōden from 1995 are a special blip of history.
Starting with Goku’s training leading up to the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai, Gokū Hishōden ultimately takes the player through the full tournament and subsequent Saiyan arc of the original series. Fighting gameplay is controlled through menu selections with various types of attacks, special moves, and even movement around the game field/grid, with a few mini-games to break up the action surrounding Goku’s training with Kaiō. Gokū Hishōden notably supports the Super Game Boy, providing it with a special color palette and even unique border when played with the additional hardware.
The game has been largely ignored by the western fandom, who instead went on to have a wealth of riches on the Game Boy Advance contemporary with the franchise’s English dub production, with game production and releases hitting from both Japan and America.
At the end of last month, translator and game hacker Kazetrigger released a comprehensive English translation and patch for the game. We reached out to learn more about their experience with the franchise and work on this game translation.
What’s your origin story? How did you get into Dragon Ball, as well as into game translation?
I was a little kid in the 90s when Dragon Ball Z really took off in North America. Everyone I knew tuned in everyday to see what would happen, especially during the Frieza Saga. I bought all the manga, and I played many of the games, especially on the PS2. Even more so than DBZ, I was a fan of the .hack// series. I wanted to combine my interest in Japanese with my interest in video games, so I joined the team translating .hack//Link. In order to complete the game’s translation, I started learning how to romhack. Things started out slow. I struggled a lot, but I learned a bunch. I contacted Hilltop a lot and he was gracious enough to go over things with me. I probably annoyed the heck out of him, but now I have a much better idea how things work. Once .hack//Link was done (or as done as I was willing to get it), I wanted another challenge, so I started looking at other games. Next came Pixygarden and then Dragon Ball Z: Gokū Hishōden.
Why this game in particular? Was there anything special about it that appealed to you?
I can’t recall where I first heard about it — probably on Romhacking.net — but I noticed that it hadn’t been translated and I thought that a smaller Game Boy game would be a good way to work on something without going overboard with too large a project. And Dragon Ball Z was a childhood favorite, so it made sense to pick that instead of some game from a franchise I was unfamiliar with.
Were there any unique (or perhaps just interesting) challenges in translating this game?
In terms of translating from Japanese to English, that was not too challenging. I had to remember to use the official localizations, but there’s plenty of info out there on that. The Game Boy can hold only so much data, so the dialogue was not very complicated. However, in terms of romhacking, the game proved a bit tricky because a sizable portion of the graphics and some text were compressed with a custom compression algorithm, so extracting those took a little time.
That first fight against Copy Goku might be a rough intro for some players. Any advice?
When testing the game, I had to do that fight several dozen times and there seems to be a fair amount of RNG. I found that moving behind an enemy increased my chances of a hit and I tended to go for larger attacks initially, such as the Kamehameha, in order to get a stronger HP lead at the start. That way, if I missed a few hits after that, I would have a little cushion. I also found using Dodge to be the best damage mitigation option. Counter was useless for me.
In an era of absolute slop, what does a real translator bring to the table that AI or machine translation never could?
Machine translation has improved immensely over the past few years, but its current major drawbacks are that it lacks context, it leans too literal/formal, and it can hallucinate or anticipate user wants. The computer doesn’t know who the speaker is or the situation in the game, so it can struggle to apply the right speech register or meanings to a particular scene. Since Japanese is a highly-contextual language where things like pronouns are left out if they’re clear from context, using correct referents can be a challenge for AI. For example, it might use he instead of she or you instead of I. If you’re not careful, these things are easy to miss.
Also, idiomatic expressions and wordplay are also not always handled well. Worst of all is the hallucination where AI, hoping to please the user, tries to go beyond what the user asked for by doing things that weren’t specified. This can lead to extra words and paraphrasing being used that aren’t representative of the original text. If you’re not at least somewhat knowledgeable in the source language, you may not realize what has happened.
What AI can do well is give you a reasonable starting template to help speed up the process and it can also help with research. I don’t begrudge anyone who uses it as an aide, but you definitely should not use it for a release/final draft.
A natural follow-up question would be, “So what about the second Game Boy game, Gokū Gekitōden…?” and it seems we already have a hint about that:
Dragon Ball Z: Goku Gekitouden is a bit trickier than Hishouden. The ROM is tightly packed and uses a lot more compression. But I was able to get the opening narration figured out. Now for the rest of the game.
No idea when this will be done. Just wanted to show off my minimal progress.
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— kazetrigger.bsky.social (@kazetrigger.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Special thanks to Kazetrigger for taking the time to share their answers and expertise. They can be found on Bluesky and Patreon, while the patch for Gokū Hishōden can be found on romhacking.net.
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We’ve been all over the place this week with podcast and article work, but that doesn’t mean the wiki hasn’t gotten some love, too. Here are some highlights!
(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)
- “Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO“: Kev keeps the editing party going on this one, now having added in a good batch of character unlock methods.
- “Dragon Ball American Release Chronology“: Coming back to this page in bits and pieces, now with 2008’s biggest events pretty thoroughly outlined.
- “Moginans“: Toyotarō’s latest monthly drawing pulled out a little inspiration to get this page thrown together. It’s always fun being able to actually cite the source of information for names like this… beyond just “I dunno man, some card game I think.”
Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0540! Mike chats with Vincent Haddad, author of the new book “Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise” out now from University of Minnesota Press.
How to ListenOur podcast is available via Apple Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify or YouTube. We invite you discuss this episode on our forum.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 July 2026 entry, Toyotarō has drawn the transformed, “combat-mode” Moginan leader:
MOGINAN
These are a race with four arms and legs but a pretty cool transformation! They got wiped out at the very beginning of the Dragon Ball Super anime along with their entire planet, but I never forgot that they existed in Universe 7 at one point!
These “Moginan” (モギーナ星人 Mogiina-seijin) exclusively appear in episode 2 of the Dragon Ball Super television series. Beerus and Whis head to another alien planet where primitive green creatures with four eyes and four arms battle against a gigantic winged dinosaur. The native’s stone weapons are no match, but in the end the dinosaur is single-handedly defeated by a larger, yellow member of their species. No sooner has this leader defeated the dinosaur than Whis appears before him, asking if he and Beerus can try some of the dinosaur’s meat. When the leader doesn’t understand, Whis repeats the request in the native’s grunting language. Unpersuaded, the leader transforms into a larger red form, clearly ready for a fight. Beerus has lost patience; he had hoped eating the meat of such a “gutsy” creature might help him remember the figure from his prophetic dream. Deciding he can do without the meat after all, Beerus easily defeats the native leader, then blows up the entire planet.
The alien race/planet is not actually named within the episode itself, and the character who uses his “combat-mode” against Whis and Beerus is simply referred to as “Leader” (リーダー Riidā) in the episode’s ending credits. Select cards from a 2016 expansion for the IC Carddass game (namely BT3-004 and BT3-019) identify the alien race by its name of モギーナ星人.
We are actually unsure what “Mogina” might be a pun on — if you have any ideas, drop us a line!
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Our “From the Past Friday” article series continues — and we are going to hang on the topic of figures for at least a little while longer.
Once we get beyond Bandai’s own American releases (an early “Super Battle Collection” batch contemporary with the syndication era), FUNimation brings Irwin on the scene, who goes on to repurpose and release everything from the “Super Battle Collection” to the “Super Guerriers” lines.
One of the most fondly-remembered lines of figures were the two-inch “Collector’s Edition” packs, which initially came bundled in packs of four figures each (and were later re-released in different amounts and styles of packaging). As these were repurposed figures previously released in other territories, they sported a wide variety of characters that both had and had not yet appeared in FUNimation’s English dub — everyone from “Krillin” up through “Broly” and even “Boujack” were included in certain packs.
“Series #3” in particular featured “Super Saiyan Gohan” (circa Cell Games), “Super Saiyan Vegeta” (in a Big Bang Attack pose), “Super Saiyan Trunks” (in a Burning Attack pose), and “Mr. Savage.”
Wait, “Mr. Savage“…?!
That’s right, this officially-licensed-by-FUNimation-and-released-by-Irwin figure multi-pack with a 1999 copyright date goes with (a fully trademarked) “Mr. Savage” for the man of many English names.
The earliest mention of “Mr. Savage” on alt.fan.dragonball dates back to November 1998, and hilariously enough, references one of the predecessors of this very website as the source of the information! That original conversation or post of ours seems to be lost to time, but that does help us pin down the initial release of this figure line from Irwin as starting in 1998, even if this exact “Series #3” pack didn’t make its way to store shelves until 1999 (in line with its copyright date on the back packaging).
From here, most American fans know how the story goes:
The character would later be renamed “Hercule” in the edited English dub (a name borrowed from the French dub), and referred to either properly as “Mr. Satan” or an incorrect “full name” of “Hercule Satan” in the “uncut” English dub. The first mention of “Hercule” on alt.fan.dragonball comes in February 1999, but mentions several other strange name spellings on action figures that seem to be taken from other international adaptations. Meanwhile, the first mention that specifically attributes the name “Hercule” to the company’s English dub comes later that year in August — this lines up with broadcast “Season Four” of the Dragon Ball Z English dub hitting Toonami that September and receiving promotion on FUNimation’s official websites.
While other names had up to this point remained faithful to their original Japanese spellings and pronunciations (or otherwise translations of such), Viz followed FUNimation in naming the character “Hercule” in their English translation of the manga. The name debuted in the September 2004 issue of the company’s monthly Shonen Jump print magazine, where the chapter’s introductory page concedes that he is, “…known as Mr. Satan in the original Japanese.”
Viz’s version of chapter 393 attempts to reconcile the two names, suggesting that “Mr. Satan” is his former ring name.
Beginning around the Kai era and in particular with video games, “Mr. Satan” began to see more regular usage, and is now widely used within video game releases.
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It’s been another massive research and transcription week, but that doesn’t mean the wiki work stops! In fact, there was a good amount of crossover between projects so some of that gets represented here.
(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)
- “Dr. Slump (1997 Manga)“: A bunch more work has been dumped into this page with the tracking down of 1999 V-Jump issue release dates, some page count confirmations, and a few more purchases that will lead to even more info getting filled out.
- “Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO“: Kev continues the post-“NEO” documentation going strong as we fill out all the character and costume information, along with more detailed notes for all of the various gameplay modes.
- “Glorio“: Ever want a complete list of all Goku’s mispronunciations of this character’s name? We gotchu covered!
- “Planet Monsal“: This page came up as our random wiki page of the day on Bluesky, and we just felt like there were a couple things worth adding… so, we did. Hah!
Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!
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1997 was a critical year for the Dragon Ball franchise in the United States:
- Toward the beginning of the year, the International Channel begins playing the Dragon Ball Z television series in raw Japanese (which runs through to completion in 2002, immediately followed by Dragon Ball GT)
- FUNimation’s first season of their Dragon Ball Z English dub finishes its syndication broadcast (spanning 26 episodes) in May
- FUNimation’s second season of their Dragon Ball Z English dub begins its syndication broadcast in September, bolstered by a full hour-long (two episodes!) timeslot
- Pioneer begins releasing FUNimation’s Dragon Ball Z content on VHS, first with just the edited episodes as broadcast on TV, but toward the end of the year dipping into the films with a fully uncut/bilingual release of the first movie (“Dead Zone”) across VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD
- The first Dragon Ball video game to keep its branding intact makes its way state-side: Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout for the PlayStation
Between the home video releases and the video game, you can start to form a picture of how the merchandising empire was starting to take hold. What rarely gets mentioned alongside them was the fact that action figures were finally coming out in an official capacity (not just Japanese originals imported from the back of gaming magazines or shipped across the border from Mexico).
In 1997, Bandai themselves (in a pre-Irwin world) began releasing the “Super Battle Collection” series of figures in North America… and one of them has a very notable name spelling!
That’s “Freeza” with a double-“ee” spelling on an official piece of merchandise under FUNimation’s license and released directly by Bandai.
My recollection and cross-referencing leads me to think that I must have purchased these around summer 1998 during a family vacation visit — I bought a Cloud Strife figure alongside them, and that’s not only dated as 1998, but wouldn’t have been released yet in 1997 (it, too, was a American Bandai release). Some light searching back on Usenet also reveals that most people start chatting about these figures come spring 1998, but online conversations were always delayed from reality just a tiny bit back then. At least one comment in 1998 does specifically note a “last year” release for these American-specific “Super Battle Collection” figures in US comic stores and Canadian Toys ‘R’ Us stores (which makes sense considering the dual English/French verbiage on its packaging).
The packaging of this “Freeza” figure specifically notes 1997 on the back, and were it to come out (or perhaps be produced) any later than early/mid-1997, it likely wouldn’t be sporting that name spelling — but we’ll get to that momentarily.
Leading up to the the character’s name being written out in a title card, every single instance of the name uses the “Freeza” spelling. For example, if you turn on the closed captioning for TV broadcast recordings of episodes before (and even sometimes after!) #34, during any case in which a character speaks “Freeza” by name aloud, it is written with the double-“ee” spelling:
The double-“ee” spelling is also used on various “Ani-Mayhem” cards of the era, including ones specifically dated for 1997:
Once we hit original, edited, dubbed episode 34 (titled “The Ruthless Frieza”) circa October 1997, things start to change and the “i” spelling becomes standardized across all FUNimation-adjacent products — though Viz remains unbeholden to this decision and (so far) continues to use “Freeza” to this day in all official English-language Dragon Ball manga releases.
Thankfully there appears to be a semi-functional archive of Bandai America’s website from 1997 via the Way Back Machine… and it is indeed likely 1997 — June, specifically — that these figures started to make their way to store shelves:
DRAGON BALL Z GOOD GUYS:
AVAIL JUNE 1997
Goku, Super Saiyan Goku, Piccolo and others–10 action figures, each 6-inches tall with fun snap-on accessories.DRAGON BALL Z BAD GUYS:
AVAIL JUNE 1997
Vegeta, Freeza, Super Saiyan Vegeta, and Cell–each 6-inches tall, poseable and coming with a change of accessories.
I personally still have the Goku, Vegeta, Super Saiyan Vegeta, and Freeza figures still in their original packaging, and it’s always a trip to trot out the double-“ee” spelling!
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Alongside its inclusion this week as part of the new “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” downloadable content and patch for the video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO, the new theme song “ZERO” by franchise stalwart Hironobu Kageyama — originally announced and first performed back in January at the special “Genkidamatsuri” event — has been released for purchase and streaming across various platforms.
The song is priced at $1.29 on Apple’s service.
Kageyama’s work with the franchise began in 1989 with the first Dragon Ball Z television series theme song “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA” and quickly grew to include a wealth of theme songs (including those for films), insert songs (those used directly within the show), and an expansive number of “image songs” for the popular “Hit Song Collection” series of albums (songs created uniquely for these albums).
The music and lyrics for “ZERO” were written by Kageyama himself; this is in contrast with many of his past franchise contributions, which often involved longtime friend and collaborator Kenji Yamamoto, who was dismissed from the franchise in 2011 following allegations and discoveries of plagiarism within his score to the “refreshed” Dragon Ball Kai television series, at that time still airing in Japan. Kageyama’s most recent contribution to the franchise was the song “Battle of Omega” for 2010’s Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, which was itself removed in second printings of the game due to Yamamoto’s involvement. Kageyama appeared after this with the opening theme “Fighting Stars” for the 2014 crossover fighting game J-Stars Victory Vs. (alongside Akira Kushida and Hiroshi Katadani), but has otherwise been absent from new material in the time since, though he has made several live appearances. “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA” has itself been used in the time since (as its original Kageyama version in 2012’s Dragon Ball: Ultimate Blast, and as Flow’s 2013 cover version from Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in various games), but “ZERO” marks the first all-new musical creation since that time.
The Dragon Ball Official Site has posted a short interview with Kageyama, which includes the following special message at the end (NOTE: the English translation used here is the version as used on the site’s own English version):
18年ぶりに「ドラゴンボール」関連の、しかもゲームのメインの曲に関わることができてすごく光栄に思っています！ 昔は歌唱だけでしたが、今回は作詞・作曲にもチャレンジさせていただいたので、今の自分ができることを全部注いで、力いっぱいやらせてもらったという「やったぜ！」感がすごくあります。「ドラゴンボール」のファンのみなさんをはじめ、世界の一人でも多くの方に、「影山って今もこんな風にやってんだね！」っていうところをしっかり聴いてもらいたいなと思います！
It’s been 18 years since I made any music for Dragon Ball, and I’m honored to be able to provide the main theme for this game! With my previous tracks, I was only responsible for the vocals, but this time I was trusted with writing the music and lyrics as well, so I put my absolute all into making it, and I personally feel very satisfied with the result! Of course, I’d love for all Dragon Ball fans to listen to it, but it would also be great if as many other people as possible could listen to this track and say, “Wow, Kageyama’s still got it!”
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Originally released back in October 2024, this week Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO receives its “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” paid downloadable content expansion (sporting over 30 new playable characters), alongside a free patch update enabling compatibility with the new content, adding a new theme song, and adjusting various gameplay elements.
The patch — already available, having released earlier this week — brings the game up to version 3020.019.003.012.013. The “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” paid downloadable content pack releases today across most platforms, with the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 editions receiving it some time in 2027 (in line with their overall later release date compared to other platforms, and ongoing staggered release of prior downloadable content).
Of particular note is the addition of a new theme song for the game: “ZERO” by Hironobu Kageyama.
NOTE ABOUT NAME SPELLINGSThe following patch notes and game update text below are pasted verbatim from official English-language websites operated by the game’s publisher. These name spellings reflect those historically used in FUNimation’s English dub of the franchise, which at times changed character name pronunciations to a point that veered wildly off course anything resembling their original form, and do not necessarily reflect Kanzenshuu‘s style guide (or even those of Shueisha/Toei in Japan). We encourage you to explore our wiki for articles regarding specific characters and their name sources and spellings!Patch Notes
Changes and Adjustments Affecting the Entire Game
Stages
- Added Rocky Land (White Valley), City Ruins (Clear Skies), and Molten Lava.
BGM
- Added “ZERO”.
Feature Changes & Adjustments
Options
- Added an option to toggle the aura change that occurs when characters trained in “Limit Breaker Journey”, a mode added in the Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC, perform a Ki Charge.
Game Mode Changes & Adjustments
Custom Battle
- Added high-difficulty battles to Extra Battle.
- Added new editable elements such as 2D cut-ins and text.
Offline Battle
- Adjusted CPU behavior.
- When characters trained in Limit Breaker Journey are available, a rule setting has been added to enable or disable their use.
Player Match
- Added the ability to enable or disable the use of characters trained in Road to Ultimate Limit-Breaking when creating or searching for rooms.
Survival Mode
- Increased the number of battles in the round-robin survival challenge.
Battle System Changes & Adjustments
New Action
- Added Linked Blast, a new action that allows a switched-in character to immediately fire a Blast attack upon entering battle.
- Added Sparking! Boost, a new action that consumes additional Skill Stocks to enter a more powerful Sparking! Mode.
Z-Search
- Adjusted the duration before Z-Search is lost so that it varies depending on the opponent.
Melee Attacks (General)
- Defending characters now recover a small amount of Ki when hit by melee attacks.
Burst Melee
- Adjusted to make activation easier even when Guard Assist is enabled.
Smash Ki Blast
- Adjusted hit stun on impact to reduce the likelihood of consecutive hits.
Short Dash
- Adjusted so that stepping is easier to perform when closing to short range via Short Dash.
Ascend / Descend
- Destructible buildings and rocks can now be destroyed through rapid ascents and descents.
Skill Changes & Adjustments
Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan – Limits?! I Break Them!
- Reduced Skill Stock consumption.
Blast Changes & Adjustments
All Rush-type Blasts that can cancel certain Energy Projectile Blasts
- Adjusted to make it easier to nullify applicable projectiles.
Majin Duu – Rolling Attack
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
Ribrianne – Maiden’s Charge
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
Kakunsa – Primal Charge
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 2 – Head-On Impact
- Can no longer be detected/countered with Super Perception.
Character Changes & Adjustments
Adjusted Skill Stock Recovery from Ki Blast Deflection
- Goku (Teen)
- Videl
- Master Roshi
- Master Roshi, Max Power
- Mr. Satan
- Saibaman
- Guldo
- Android 19
- Dr. Gero
- Frieza Force Soldier
- Broly (Z)
- Lord Slug
- Spopovich
- Goku (Mini)
Attack Power Now Increases as Health Decreases
- Goku (Z – Early)
- Goku (Teen)
- Majin Vegeta
- Future Trunks
- Future Trunks, Super Saiyan
- Goku Black
- Goku Black, Super Saiyan Rosé
- Shallot
- Gohan (Future)
- Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
- Bardock
The following characters now recover Ki more quickly while stunned, and gain more Ki from button inputs during recovery:
- Goku (Teen)
- Majin Vegeta
- Gohan (Future)
- Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
- Super Trunks
- Master Roshi, MAX Power
- Frieza (Z), 2nd Form
- Frieza (Z), Full Power
- Majin Buu
- Mr. Satan
- Bardock
- Nappa
- Super Zarbon
- Dodoria
- Recoome
- King Cold
- Broly (Z), Super Saiyan
- Broly (Super), Super Saiyan
- Super Garlic Jr.
- Lord Slug
- Cooler, Final Form
- Bojack
- Full-Power Bojack
- Syn Shenron (GT)
- Spopovich
- Fused Zamasu, Half-Corrupted
- Ribrianne
- Majin Duu
- Third Eye Gomah
- Shallot
For all of the following Vegeta variants, Ki consumption for Rush Ki Blasts, Dash Rush Ki Blasts, and Jump Rush Ki Blasts has been reduced, while their attack power has been decreased:
- Vegeta (Z – Scouter)
- Vegeta (Z – Early)
- Vegeta (Z – Early) Super Saiyan
- Super Vegeta
- Vegeta (Z – End)
- Vegeta (Z – End), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Z – End), Super Saiyan 2
- Majin Vegeta
- Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
- Vegeta (Super)
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Baby Vegeta (GT)
- Vegeta (Mini)
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 2
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 3
- Vegeta (DAIMA), Super Saiyan 3
When reflecting a Blast with Super Perception, the reflected Blast will now travel toward the opponent.
- Goku (Z – End) Super Saiyan 3
Others
Font
- Changed the game’s font.
Other
- Improved overall stability and performance.
“Super Limit-Breaking NEO” Paid Downloadable Content PackAvailable for a separate $34.99 charge, the “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” paid downloadable content pack adds in 33 additional playable characters, plus a variety of new outfits, stages, and story mode/scenario expansions.
Playable characters (x33)
- Nam
- Eighter
- General Blue
- Mercenary Tao
- Spike the Devil Man
- Grandpa Gohan
- Demon King Piccolo
- Goku (World Tournament)
- Tien (World Tournament)
- Chi-Chi
- Ma Junior
- Ma Junior (Giant)
- Salza
- Zangya
- Pikkon
- Supreme Kai
- Mighty Mask
- Uub (Kid)
- King Vegeta
- Fasha
- Tora
- Bardock, Super Saiyan
- Chilled
- Jaco
- Champa
- Cheelai
- Vegeta (GT)
- Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (GT)
- Trunks (GT), Super Saiyan
- Hell Fighter 17
- Super 17 (GT)
- Nuova Shenron (GT)
Outfits
- Goku (Z – Early)
- Goku (Z – Mid)
- Goku (Z – Mid), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Z – Late)
- Goku (Z – Late), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Z – Late), Super Saiyan 2
- Goku (Z – Late), Super Saiyan 3
- Goku (Super)
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Goku (Teen)
- Vegeta (Super)
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Teen)
- Gohan (Teen), Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Teen), Super Saiyan 2
- Gohan (Adult)
- Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan 2
- Piccolo
- Piccolo (Fused with Kami)
- Krillin
- Trunks (Melee)
- Trunks (Melee), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (Kid)
- Trunks (Kid), Super Saiyan
- Videl
- Frieza (Super)
- Golden Frieza
- Bardock
- Bardock, Super Saiyan
- Android 17 (Z)
- Android 18
- Vegeta (GT)
- Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (GT)
- Trunks (GT), Super Saiyan
- Goku (World Tournament)
- Ma Junior
Stages (x12)
- Kame House
- Kame House (Twilight)
- Kame House (Night)
- Kami’s Palace
- Kami’s Palace (Twilight)
- Kami’s Palace (Night)
- Stratosphere (Planet Vegeta)
- Stratosphere (Earth)
- Bitter Tundra
- Bitter Tundra (Twilight)
- Bitter Tundra (Night)
- Bitter Tundra (Spaceship)
New mode
- Limit Breaker Journey
Episodes Battles (x4)
- Krillin’s Saga
- Yamcha’s Saga
- Tien’s Saga
- Cell’s Saga
Bonus Battles (x13)
- “The Almighty Evil Containment Wave”
- “Who Will Defeat Goku?”
- “Janenba’s Defeat!”
- “Meet Super 17, the Ultimate Android!”
- “Stopping Bojack’s Plan”
- “The Galactic Patrol’s Secret Weapon”
- “I Only Get Riper With Age!”
- “Chaos! Joining Forces to Overcome All?!”
- “An Unexpected Savior” (Super)
- “To Be the Best: The Ultimate Test”
- “Alone Against fate”
- “Go, Mighty Mask, Go!”
- “A Dream Realized: The Universal Tuffleization Plan”
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan and 11 October 2024 internationally, with ports to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 coming roughly a year later.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth game — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0539! Mike dives back to 1998 to track the full history of the great FUNimation voice shift, which begins with Saban exiting the syndication business, leading to “Dragon Ball Z” shifting networks and FUNimation briefly stepping back to the original “Dragon Ball” before things ramp up in 1999.
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Following up on last month’s announcement of S.H.Figuarts entries coming for Shallot and Giblet — both characters designed by Akira Toriyama for the mobile game Dragon Ball Legends — Bandai Namco has announced that Shallot will also be coming as a downloadable character for the video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO:
Shallot will be available next week starting 26 June 2025, with “early access” available to “Season Pass” owners three days prior.
The standalone release of Shallot marks a brief reprieve from the ongoing Dragon Ball Daima downloadable content packs, with the first Daima pack hitting back in April, and the second still yet to be formally scheduled. The game’s $34.99 “Season Pass” originally kicked off with Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero content back in January. No individual price or availability for Shallot was mentioned in the original announcement outside of the “early access” period for “Season Pass” owners.
Dragon Ball Legends, originally launched in 2018 and available on mobile phone platforms, is a “one finger card action battle” game developed in conjunction with Dimps (previously of the Budokai and XENOVERSE game series). The game’s title should not be confused with that of the 1996 PlayStation and Saturn game Idainaru Doragon Bōru Densetsu (“The Great Dragon Ball Legend”), often and colloquially referred to in English fandom over the years as simply “Legends”.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0524! Mike catches up with Randy from We Gotta Podcast, who is celebrating a 100+ episode milestone. What brought them all together, what keeps them going, and why are they just so gosh darn nice?!
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Last August, Bandai Namco announced a new multiplayer online battle arena (“MOBA”) video game for the Dragon Ball franchise, tentatively titled “Dragon Ball Project: Multi”.
Following relative radio silence after the game’s beta period last year, the game was re-announced last week as Dragon Ball: Gekishin Squadra, with an expanded home console release: the game will now come to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 in addition to the previously announced iOS, Android, and PC (via Steam).
A new official website for the game has opened at: dbg-squadra.bn-ent.net
The game’s title contains the Japanese word “Gekishin” which is written out in katakana as ゲキシン on the various official Japanese websites. The word is typically written in kanji as 激震 meaning a violent earthquake (or tremor or shock), though it has been written with different characters as 激神 for the second Dragon Ball Z game on the Nintendo Famicom, meaning “Violent God” (in reference to Freeza in the full title “Dragon Ball Z: The Violent God, Freeza!!”). A separate spelling of 撃針 refers to the firing pin mechanism within a firearm.
The stylized “Squadra” (with the middle “A” striking a resemblance to the number “4”) refers to the fact that the game features 4-vs-4 battles.
A new network test for the game will be held between 6:00 a.m. on 12 June 2025 and 5:59 a.m. on 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Additional trailers featuring Super Saiyan Son Goku, Piccolo, Kuririn, first-form Freeza, Dabra, Majin Boo, #18, young Baby (from Dragon Ball GT), Super Oob (from Dragon Ball GT), Zamasu (from Dragon Ball Super), and Super Saiyan 2 Caulifla (from Dragon Ball Super) were also released.
Per the game’s official website, Gekishin Squadra will feature cross play, progression, and commerce across its various platform releases when its releases sometime later this year:
This product is Cross-Platform Progression compatible.
After creating a new account for this product and linking it with a Bandai Namco ID in-game, upon playing the game on a different platform you will be able to link your BNID to carry over your save data.
Dragon Gems can only be used on the original platform it was acquired.
Also, Dragon Gems purchased with real currency can only be used on the original platform it was purchased.
However, any content purchased using Dragon Gems can be used on all platforms.
Dragon Ball: Gekishin Squadra is in development by Ganbarion, who previously developed 2016’s Dragon Ball Fusions on Nintendo 3DS, 2006’s Jump Ultimate Stars on Nintendo DS, and 2005’s Jump Super Stars on Nintendo DS.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0523! Mike catches up with Zénpai, who is now the official translator for an all-new Dragon Ball manga release in Portugal! How did this all come about, how is the release going, what has the feedback been, and what all benefits do we as a broader international community get out of it?!
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0522! Mike speaks with David Evelyn, translator on the new English language release of “Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques” from Viz. What are some of the fun stories and lessons from the book, and what other great stories does David have to share? Grab the book, tune in, and find out!
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Originally announced back in December in conjunction with Jump Festa and again with the final 40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” entry, Shueisha has confirmed a new “Dragon Ball Complete 42-Volume Set Double Cover Box” releasing 04 February 2026 in Japan for ¥31,800.
The new set covers the original, full, 42-volume tankōbon run of the Dragon Ball manga with two versions of its cover art: the dust jacket portrays the 40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” submissions by various artists used for the back covers of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump between 2021 and 2024, while the book itself is printed with the updated version of the original tankōbon cover art that Shueisha began printing in 2009.
The new books come in a four-part box that features both the original and 2009-updated spine art. The box also comes packed with eight dividers and a 42-card set of postcards with both the original and tribute artwork.
Though the original gallery pieces were not printed in any sort of chronological order, the list of artists that correspond to the actual run of 42 volumes in order includes:
- Masakazu Katsura
- Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Kōji Inada
- Akira Amano
- Yoshihiro Togashi
- Hiroshi Shiibashi
- Mikio Ikemoto
- Sui Ishida
- Kenta Shinohara
- Shun Saeki
- Masashi Kishimoto
- Yusuke Murata
- Kōhei Horikoshi
- Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Tatsuya Endō
- Hideaki Sorachi
- Takehiko Inoue
- Naho Ooishi
- Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
- Yūsei Matsui
- Yoshifumi Tozuka
- Posuka Demizu
- Kyosuke Usuta
- Masanori Morita
- Kazue Kato
- Boichi
- Tite Kubo
- Osamu Akimoto
- Takeshi Obata
- Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Kentarō Yabuki
- Koyoharu Gotōge
- Hirohiko Araki
- Yasuhisa Hara
- Hiroyuki Asada
- Katsura Hoshino
- Shuichi Asao
- Ryūhei Tamura
- Toyotarō
- Yuki Tabata
- Gege Akutami
- Eiichiro Oda
Pre-orders for the new set are open now through 03 August 2025, including at major Japanese book retailers, as well as Amazon Japan.
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Following up on the previously-announced “Summer 2025” timeframe, Bandai Namco has announced that the first pack of the two-part Dragon Ball Daima DLC expansion for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will hit 17 July 2025:
The release date applies to all major territories, including North America and Japan.
Unlike past DLC expansions, the title for this pack remains largely the same between its original Japanese (魔界の大冒険! or “Great Adventure in the Demon Realm!”) and its official English title (“Adventure Through The Demon Realm”). The new trailer also reiterates that a “Daima Edition” of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will be released, which itself includes access to the two-part expansion. Access to just the Daima pack (covering both parts) is priced at $34.99.
Per the game’s Steam listings, “Part 2” is listed for release sometime between January and March 2026.
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.
Two season passes worth of content — with six individual packs in total — have come out since the game’s release. In the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story. The second season pass includes entries for the original 1990 Bardock television special, the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai, and the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai.
Reviews of the base game, Trunks DLC, Bardock DLC, 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC, and 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC can be found on episodes #0481, #0490, #0497, #0505, and #0509, respectively, of our podcast.
Dragon Ball Daima — whose broadcast concluded back in February with 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0521! Mike speaks with Von from France about the Made in Asia convention from March 2025, which had Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru and Chikashi Kubota in attendance. We get the scoop on some behind-the-scenes production tidbits, pressing fan questions, and a whole lot of great chat about artwork over the years!
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 April 2025 entry, Toyotarō has drawn the Turtle Hermit:
Kame-Sen’nin (Muten-Rōshi)
We all have in our heads this image of the Bankoku-Bikkuri-Shō being a Jackie Chun move, but in the animated series version of the Tournament of Power, the Turtle Hermit used it against The Priccio, so that’s who I’m drawing here!
During episode 101 of the Dragon Ball Super television series, the Turtle Hermit uses the Bankoku-Bikkuri-Shō against Universe 3’s The Priccio, who is then knocked out of the ring by Tenshinhan’s Shin Kikōhō.
In the Dragon Ball Super manga by Toyotarō, The Priccio is knocked out of the ring sometime after battling Cabba in chapter 37; Universe 3 is eliminated as a whole after a berserk Kale knocks Anilaza out of the ring in the following chapter.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 March 2025 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Great Saiyaman #2 (with Great Saiyaman No. 1 himself in the background!):
Great Saiyaman #2
In the animated series, Videl also previously worked as a Saiyaman! They may snark about it, but in the end, everyone loves super heroes!
Videl takes on the mantle of Great Saiyaman #2 following the defeat of Boo, with perhaps her most notable appearance coming in Dragon Ball Z Movie 13:
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Let’s set the stage: You’re having a wonderful conversation, and then *BOOM — you’re hit by a fellow fan with what appears to be a quote from original Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama that completely, thoroughly, and conveniently* “debunks” everything you just theorized. A new entry in our “Rumor Guide” tackles this very scenario! While it is impossible to catalogue every single last “fake interview” that fans have concocted over the years, we can at least share a few of the most notable ones that still make the rounds… sometimes even multiple decades later, and on an entirely new group of unsuspecting fans.
Read the Full Rumor Guide Entry!The “Rumor Guide” has been a consistent favorite of staff and visitors alike here at Kanzenshuu — the entries are a blast to put together, and they each act as an authoritative, one-stop-shop with verified original research and (generally!) definitive answers. Enjoy!
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The eleventh collected volume of Dragon Ball SD is on its way from Shueisha, with a catalog entry noting an 04 February 2025 release date, clocking in at 192 pages and running at ¥814 + tax.
The release will mark just under a year since the tenth collected volume. The upcoming eleventh collected volume should pick with Dragon Ball SD chapter 98.
Dragon Ball SD was a stalwart of Saikyō Jump dating back to its original debut issue, adapting events from the original story in humorous new ways with “chibi” or “super deformed” (the titular “SD”) styled characters. After the original four quarterly issues of the magazine and SD covering four distinct time periods, the magazine shifted to a monthly release and SD reverted back to the proper beginning of the series with a continuous storyline. In 2016, the series skipped ahead from the end of the 22nd Tenka’ichi Budōkai to the Saiyan arc. In conjunction with Saikyō Jump‘s big format refresh in 2021, Dragon Ball SD was moved out of the magazine to a digital-only series on the company’s official YouTube channel. The series briefly returned to print in the August 2022 issue for a special chapter promoting the theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, and then again in the December 2024 issue for a 40th anniversary celebration chapter. Most recently, the series returned to the pages of Saikyō Jump-proper for full serialization again starting in the January 2025 issue released earlier this month.
Dragon Ball SD is not available in English, though it does currently see a release in certain territories such as Germany and France.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0516! Mike and Randy chat about the North American Dragon Ball Daima Tour before turning their attention to the first half(?) of Dragon Ball Daima itself. How are we feeling about all the usual stuff like story, pacing, and production values? What hopes do we still have? Stick around for a short Dragon Quest III HD-2D wrap-up chat afterward!
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During Dragon Ball‘s panel on the “Red Stage” at Jump Festa 2025 this weekend (and as seen in a YouTube live stream unfortunately since made private), it was announced Toyotarō will once again return to the pages of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in its April 2025 issue — set for release 20 February 2025 — for a special one-shot Dragon Ball Super manga chapter.
The chapter will focus on what led to Trunks’ admiration of superheroes, with key artwork showcasing Goten and Trunks behind “Clean God” (a source of inspiration most recently seen in the “Super Hero” arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga).
What was not announced, however, was a “full return” of the Dragon Ball Super manga. The Jump Festa announcement was solely for this special one-shot, and as of V-Jump‘s February 2025 issue released this week, the usual note of “The Dragon Ball Super manga will be on hiatus next issue” remains in the back preview pages:
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, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and “Super Hero” arcs. The manga has been on hiatus since chapter 103’s release back in the May 2024 issue (released earlier this year in March), coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama.
Toyotarō most recently contributed another special one-shot to promote the launch of the new Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade game in Japan two months ago in V-Jump‘s December 2024 issue.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 December 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Mako Maruyama (and friends!) from the Akira Toriyama manga series COWA!:
COWA!
Mako MaruyamaIt’s the comic Toriyama-sensei said was his favorite.
The main character is Paifu, but it’s drawn with Makorin a.k.a. Mako Maruyama, who he actually wanted to be the lead, front and center.
Toriyama consistently called out COWA! as one of his favorite works, specifically stating in a comment for new obi included with his various works beginning in 2014 (alongside the launch of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman):
No matter what anyone says, this is the comic I like the best out of all my works.
COWA! is a fourteen-chapter post-Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama, debuting in the 1997 No. 48 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, originally released 28 October 1997 in Japan. The series ran through to the 1998 No. 15 issue, and a collected volume was released that May.
In America, COWA! was released as a collected print edition by Viz in July 2008.
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A new patch released today across all platforms for Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO brings a variety of balance and gameplay updates.
Perhaps most notably, the patch brings an all-new “High-Speed Dragon Dash” quick movement option, as well as offline split-screen multiplayer to all stages — though full-screen multiplayer was available for online battles at launch, this feature was previously only available on the Room of Spirit and Time stage for offline battles.
Game Mode Adjustments Battle
• All stages are now available in offline P1 vs. P2 battles.Functionality Adjustments
Battle Setup
• A function allowing you to change a character’s display method has been added.
• The “My Sets” function has been added for Team Members.Ranked Match / Player Match
• You can now skip the intro battle animations (requires both players to input the skip command).Player Match
• You can now set your team to hidden or revealed to your opponent when editing your team.Custom Battle Mode
• Text can now be sorted alphabetically.Options
• You can now set the battle camera distance to be closer.Battle System Adjustments
High-Speed Dragon Dash (New Action)
• The new quick movement action, “High-Speed Dragon Dash”, where you can move quickly towards your opponent, has been added. Perform with R2 and holding X (PS5) or RT and holding A (XSX/S).Smash Attack
• You will no longer be stunned when being hit by a Rush Ki Blast when charging a Smash Attack.
• When charging a Smash Attack during a Rush Attack, charge time reduction based on hit count has been increased.Rush Ki Blast
• The time between being able to fire the next Rush Ki Blast after firing the maximum consecutive amount at once (different for each character) has been increased.Rush Ki Blast Deflection
• You can now move while deflecting Rush Ki Blasts.Steps
• You will now no longer be able to be hit by certain attacks immediately after performing a Step.
• Rush Ki Blast and Smash Ki Blast can now also be evaded.Z-Burst Dash
• The amount of Ki consumed when activating it has been increased.Burst Smash
• Ki will no longer be consumed when activating it and will instead consume an amount based on the distance traveled.Blast
• Damage has been increased when using a boost.Z-Search
• Z-Search will no longer lose track of your opponent when characters are swapped.
• You will now quickly regain sight of your opponent if they enter your line of sight from the front when Z-Search is not locked onto them.Z-Counter
• The input window has been shortened.
• Z-Counter will become more difficult to perform if performed consecutively.
• Ki consumed has been increased when successfully performing a Z-Counter.
• Skill Count increase speed has been reduced when successfully performing a Z-Counter.Revenge Counter
• Skill Count consumed when using Perception against Revenge Counter has been reduced from 2 to 1.Rush Attacks during Sparking! Mode
• Gradual damage reduction of consecutive hits has been increased.Combos
• The final attack of Aerial Combos and Aerial Slash Combos will no longer be interrupted by guarding.Character Switch
• Health recovery rate of Standby characters has been reduced.Z-Burst Dash (Giant Characters)
• The tackle done by Giant characters during Z-Burst Dashes is now guardable.Skill Adjustments
Skills that cause instant Sparking! Mode
• Skill Count consumed has been increased.Skills that increase stats in general
• Skill Count consumed has been decreased.Afterimage Strike
• Effect duration has been reduced to 10 seconds and will be removed if your opponent uses Perception while you are under the effect.False Courage
• Skill Count consumed has been increased from 1 to 2.Technique: All I Need Is Five Seconds!
• Skill Count consumed has been increased from 3 to 2 and status increase upon activation has been increased.Stardust Barrier
• You can now activate it while receiving melee attacks from the front.Blast Adjustments
Long-Range Blasts and Ultimate Blasts
• Speed has been reduced.Super Vegito: Final Kamehameha
• Ki consumed and damage has been increased.Goku (Mini): Quick Rush
• Trajectory can now be changed while Rushing.Mr. Satan: Present Bomb
• Increased ending lag after activation.Character Adjustments
Android 19/ Dr. Gero
• Health/Ki amount absorbed on successful throw has been adjusted.
• Dragon Dash, Quick Ascend, and Quick Descend now consume Ki.Cell 2nd Form
• You can now escape the throw.Cooler
• Amount of Health restored upon transforming has been increased.Giant Characters
• Increased the time it takes to charge a Smash Attack and reduced its power.Great Ape Vegeta / Dr. Wheelo
• Maximum health has been reduced.Other
• We have improved performance and ease of use.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 November 2024 entry (posted in early December), Toyotarō has drawn three of the Neko Majin from the Akira Toriyama manga series of the same name.
Neko Majin
A series I really like with a lot of connections to Dragon Ball
A few years after completing Dragon Ball, and sporadically over the next few years in between his other projects, Akira Toriyama released chapters of Neko Majin, a series that increasingly became a Dragon Ball parody and spin-off as it went on. Chapters were published between Weekly Shōnen Jump and (the now-defunct) Monthly Shōnen Jump, sometimes entire years apart from each other. The series consists of two chapters of Neko Majin ga Iru (“Neko Majin is Here”), one chapter of Neko Majin Mike, and five chapters of Neko Majin Z. The final two chapters of Neko Majin Z bucked the trend and were published back-to-back in consecutive issues of Monthly Shōnen Jump. All eight chapters were collected into a single kanzenban-sized volume in April 2005; they were later released in a new digitally-colorized version in April 2013.
The only chapter ever to be officially published and released in English has been Neko Majin Z 5, which was printed (without a chapter number) in the October 2007 issue of Viz’s (now-defunct) print version of Shonen Jump.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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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 forty entries, this month’s January 2025 issue brings us the penultimate drawing and comment combo with Masakazu Katsura (DNA², I”s, Shadow Lady, Video Girl Ai, Wing-Man, Zetman) and their take on the series’ first collected volume cover.
Katsura commented:
I am the man that kept getting the in the way of Dragon Ball‘s writing with really dumb phone calls, ones that started late in the night and went on until the wee hours of the morning.
I mean, technically, I wasn’t really getting in the way per se, but… midway through our calls, I would just casually ask “what are you doing?” and would always be really shocked when he answered “Hmm? Oh, I’m doing the storyboards.”
He really was amazing. I wonder what kind of brains Toriyama-san had floating up there on that noggin’.
Dragon Ball was always such a positive, pure and unbelievably fun manga that it will forever be a masterpiece.
Toriyama and Katsura were long-time friends and collaborators. Toriyama brings up Katsura countless times during his various interviews over the years, and Katsura himself actually showed up during Toriyama’s interview for the “Shenlong Times” accompanying Daizenshuu 7. During one of their most notable conversations, it was actually Katsura who suggested fusing characters together as a new way to power-up characters without another transformation. Toriyama and Katsura directly collaborated together for Sachie-chan GOOD!! and Jiya, the original two entries in the Galactic Patrol series.
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 in 2021 (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.
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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Show DescriptionEpisode #0515! Mike brings on JP from The Space Above Us podcast to chat about all things space in Dragon Ball! How realistic are the space travel options in the series, and what about other things like intergalactic communications, and even teleportation? What other real-world considerations do we see addressed in-universe?
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This week’s December 2024 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine features the return of an old stalwart plus the debut of a brand-new series in support of the upcoming Dragon Ball Super Divers card-based arcade game.
Dragon Ball SDA special bonus chapter of Naho Ooishi‘s Dragon Ball SD graces the pages of the magazine once again, this time coming back for a special 40th anniversary celebration.
Following the battle with Cell in the past, Trunks returns to his future timeline to defeat his own version of Cell, and then wants to return back to the past to let everyone know of his success. Bulma warns him that he keeps traveling back to the wrong periods of time, and that restoring the energy for the time machine isn’t easy! Trunks departs for the past, but Bulma of course isn’t sure about this…
Back in the past timeline, the heroes enjoy a party after Cell’s defeat. Kuririn and Gohan wonder what Trunks is up to and whether he’s defeated his own version of Cell yet, when suddenly the time machine appears… with Trunks, plus a wealth of different Gokus from across time! It seems that with Bulma’s unlimited energy upgrade to the time machine, Trunks kept going back to different times accumulating different Gokus who wanted to tag along; all the spiky hair was uncomfortable with them all crammed together in the time machine.
There’s a Goku from just when he gets married to Chi-Chi, three different Super Saiyan Gokus (who Trunks says all look slightly different depending on the time they’re from; Tenshinhan wonders why three Super Saiyans instead of maybe Super Saiyan 2 and 3, instead…), and then a bunch of Gokus with different hair colors including Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Blue, and Ultra Instinct (Vegeta wonders if there’s even a color they haven’t used, while Piccolo wonders about orange…).
Kuririn wonders why all these different Gokus wanted to travel through time with him: of course it’s because they all wanted to find someone strong to fight! Some of the Gokus explain that it turns out they’re all just Goku, though, and want someone else entirely different to fight. Trunks has an idea and pops back in the time machine… only to return with a bunch of opponents from across time and space!
Freeza figures out that he was brought back in a time machine, which would be very helpful for his army! Cell is also here and learns about what’s transpired, while Boo pops in from the background, too. Beerus says he was just interested in the food at the party, while Red and Black ask if they can just please go home.
All the different Gokus and villains (including Freeza, who has now transformed into Golden Freeza) are ready to fight! Yamcha is worried about the youngest version of Goku, while Vegeta notes that Freeza has historically performed poorly in gag manga and won’t stand a chance.
Watching the fights unfold, Trunks remarks to himself that he truly understands that Goku is always someone who brings hope to the future, and wishes to be more like him.
It seems Trunks used the time machine a little too much after all, so the villains hang around for a bit… and perhaps because they were defeated by all the Gokus, lend a hand in rebuilding West City from all the destruction caused by their battles.
Following up on a tease last issue, the chapter concludes with a note that Dragon Ball SD will return to serialization starting next month with the January 2025 issue.
Dragon Ball SD dates back to the literal beginning of Saikyō Jump, adapting events from the original story in humorous new ways with “chibi” or “super deformed” (the titular “SD”) styled characters. After the original four quarterly issues of the magazine and SD covering four distinct time periods, the magazine shifted to a monthly release and SD reverted back to the proper beginning of the series with a continuous storyline. In 2016, the series skipped ahead from the end of the 22nd Tenka’ichi Budōkai to the Saiyan arc. In conjunction with Saikyō Jump‘s big format refresh in 2021, Dragon Ball SD was moved out of the magazine to a digital-only series on the company’s official YouTube channel; in the meantime, the series briefly returned to print in the August 2022 issue for a special chapter promoting the theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. A collected edition has been in irregular series from Shueisha, with the tenth volume released back in April this year covering chapters 89-97 (plus the aforementioned Super Hero bonus chapter).
Dragon Ball SD is not available in English, though it does currently see a release in certain territories such as Germany and France.
Dragon Ball Super Divers: Let’s Super Dive!!Following the completion of the previous Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! series (in support of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game), Yūji Kasai returns with a brand new series in support of the Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade game (set to effectively replace Super Dragon Ball Heroes this month).
Dragon Ball Super Divers: Let’s Super Dive!! (ドラゴンボールスーパーダイバーズ -レッツ！スーパーダイブ!!- Doragon Bōru Sūpā Daibāzu -Rettsu! Sūpā Daibu!!-) kicks off by introducing a school with the goal of cultivating the best Dragon Ball Super Divers players. A young boy named Asuka Daibu (大舞アスカ) is heading off to attend for the first time. He (quite literally) runs into a new classmate, a girl named Azu Taibu (台武アズ). They comment on how their names are similar, but they are going to be late for school, so off they go.
Asuka really wants to be friends with her (and asks if he can even call her “Azu-Azu”), but she’s not interested. Suddenly, a Vegeta-looking character crashes in on a motorcycle! He is “Geta Wagama” (我間ジータ), and he’s the leader of this class of weaklings. Asuka tells him to get up from his seat (which he initially takes as a challenge), but it turns out Geta just has a split down the back of his pants that Asuka wanted to tell him about. Geta goes in for a punch, but the classroom teacher — Mr. Kamito (神斗先生) — stops him with chopsticks. There’s to be no real fighting, but they can duke it out in the game!
The two get set up with their avatar versions and teams of eight players, while Mr. Kamito wonders about the spirit of the legendary fighter appearing… After several rounds, Asuka wins with a combination God Kamehameha and Kikōha. Geta can’t believe he lost to someone like this, but Asuka fell asleep! Azu and Mr. Kamito think this is going to be an interesting class…
Kasai debuted with Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! in Saikyō Jump, running from the January 2021 to October 2024 issues. The series tells the story of a young boy who idolizes Son Goku and seeks to become a great Super Dragon Ball Heroes player.
Magazine DetailsThe December 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump was released 04 November 2024 for ¥700. The issue is still available for order on Amazon Japan.
The January 2025 issue of Saikyō Jump is set for release 04 December 2024
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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 thirty-nine entries, this month’s December 2024 issue brings us Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin) and their take on the series’ 40th volume cover.
At this time, Kanzenshuu will not be sharing Watsuki’s illustration or comment (beyond this note for future reference’s sake that it was published at this time in this issue).
In 2017, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police charged the then-47-year-old manga creator with possession of child pornography. Watsuki was later fined ¥200,000, and returned to serialization the next year.
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 in 2021 (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.
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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The “Rumor Guide” has been a consistent favorite of staff and visitors alike here at Kanzenshuu — the entries are a blast to put together, and they each act as an authoritative, one-stop-shop with verified original research and (generally!) definitive answers. A new entry in the guide tackles an extremely important question…!
RUMOR: The Turtle Hermit is a Tenka’ichi Budōkai ChampionNevermind that “Jackie Chun” guy — is the Turtle Hermit himself actually a past Tenka’ichi Budōkai champion…? Things are left pretty vague in the original manga, but statements from one specific movie (as well as later filler material) shine a little more light on the past!
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Kajika, the main character from the Akira Toriyama one-shot Kajika.
Kajika
“A boy with special powers!” With Toriyama-sensei drawing a comic based on this premise, of course it turned out really interesting!
Kajika is a 12-chapter manga series by Akira Toriyama which ran from the 1998 No. 32 to No. 44 issues of Weekly Shōnen Jump, releasing over the course of 07 July 1998 to 29 September 1998 in Japan. Kajika is a boy who sets out on a journey to save 1,000 lives in order to undo the curse a fox put on him. He comes to the rescue of a girl named Haya, and ends up being entrusted with the egg of the last dragon in the world…?!
Though it has seen proper releases in certain other territories, Kajika remains without an official English translation.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0514! Mike and Heath check in with personal feelings and the general fandom atmosphere now that we are a few episodes deep in to Dragon Ball Daima. How is site work going alongside this new series, and what’s grabbed us the most so far?
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As teased last month in the November 2024 issue, Toyotarō contributed a 32-page (one color title page and 31 black-and-white content pages) one-shot manga — in support of the forthcoming Dragon Ball Super Divers card-based arcade game in Japan — to this week’s December 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine (released 21 October 2024).
The story — simply titled “Dragon Ball Super Divers” as-is from the source game name — is a condensed run-through of the battle against Nappa and Vegeta. A Super Divers avatar character fights alongside the heroes, having been sent into the game world through a capsule game system by Trunks. Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and Kuririn all rush in to fight the Saibaimen, but the fight roughly continues as it did in the original series with one of them grabbing onto Yamcha and exploding. Even with Goku already on the the battlefield, the avatar character tells Goku to save his strength, and the battle resumes with Nappa attacking Tenshinhan and killing Piccolo. The avatar character rescues Gohan from Nappa’s foot stomp, and proceeds to distract him with a Kienzan before taking him out point-blank with a blast, overpowering Nappa’s own mouth blast. Vegeta takes to the skies to unleash his Gyallic-Hō, but Goku and the avatar character power-up their own Kamehameha in response. The two power-up from a 3x to a 4x Kaiō-Ken, finally overwhelming and defeating Vegeta. It’s a “K.O.”… and the player awakens back in the real world, stepping outside of the capsule gaming system. A young woman welcomes him back, saying that Freeza is up next, and the enemies only get stronger from here on out. The player is ready to take them all on!
Toyotarō’s previous work was the Dragon Ball Super manga, which has been on hiatus since March 2024 with the release of its 103rd chapter. Each issue of V-Jump since then continues to include a tiny blurb toward the back saying it will be on hiatus the following issue — this remains true even as of this December 2024 issue. No concrete word on the series’ possible return has been announced.
While other artists such as Yoshitaka Nagayama and Yūji Kasai have contributed manga adaptations of Dragon Ball video games before (primarily in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine), Toyotarō contributed a special one-shot manga for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 alongside the game’s launch back in October 2016. In Japan, the chapter was included within the game’s guide book, while internationally the chapter was included within a special “Time Patroller’s Guide” booklet accompanying the game’s Collector’s Edition.
Kasai is set to begin serialization with a new series — Dragon Ball Super Divers: Let’s Super Dive!! — beginning next week in the December 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump.
Dragon Ball Super Divers is a forthcoming physical and digital card-based arcade game, effectively replacing the existing Dragon Ball Heroes run from the last 13 years. Super Divers was announced last May and launches next month.
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Alongside the premiere of Dragon Ball Daima‘s second episode this weekend, the “Dragon Ball Official Site” shared confirmation of new voice actors taking on the “Mini” versions of characters:
- Bulma (Mini): Mai Nakahara
- Vegeta (Mini): Yūdai Mino
- Piccolo (Mini): Tomohiro Yamaguchi
- Kuririn (Mini): Aki Kanada
- Chi-Chi (Mini): Ai Kakuma
- Turtle Hermit (Mini): Nobuaki Kanemitsu
- Trunks (Mini): Tsubasa Yonaga
- Dende (Mini): Erina Goto
- Mr. Popo (Mini): Kimiko Saitō
- Kibito (Mini): Yūsuke Handa
- Mr. Satan (Mini):Tōru Sakurai
- Majin Boo (Mini): Shiho Amuro
This is in addition to “Kaiōshin (Mini)” played by Yumiko Kobayashi which was previously announced. Masako Nozawa continues as the “Mini” version of Son Goku (as well as Son Goten per the episode’s end credits).
Additionally, creditless versions of the series’ opening and ending themes — “Jaka ☆ Ja~an” and “NAKAMA” respectively — were shared on Toei Animation’s YouTube channel:
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During yesterday’s “Dragon Ball DAIMA Special Panel” at New York Comic Con, various announcements were shared regarding the show’s production, English dub, as well as integration into ongoing video game content.
Moderator Monica Rial (current English voice of Bulma) first led the audience through materials and experiences available at the Dragon Ball booth there at New York Comic Con, followed by updates for specific video games.
A short trailer for the recently-released Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO confirmed Vegeta: Mini and Glorio as playable characters in the forthcoming second downloadable content pack.
Goku: Mini will make his way to Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 as a playable character within the “Future Saga: Chapter 2” downloadable content pack. A free trial will also be available to players to give him a spin.
The previously-teased additional content coming to Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will be Dragon Ball Daima-focused as well, with an all new “Daima: Adventure Through the Demon Realm” expansion coming across two packs.
Lip service was also paid to the two primary mobile video games. Dragon Ball: Dokkan Battle has new campaign to recruit Goku and Vegeta through an ongoing login bonus, and these can be “awakened” into Goku: Mini and Vegeta: Mini by clearing the missions that start on October 21. There is likewise a Daima-focused campaign in Dragon Ball Legends right now celebrating the start of the anime, with its own special login with bonus items, as well as Goku: Mini for players to score.
The new “Fusion World” version of the Dragon Ball Super Card Game likewise has Daima cards entering the mix. Cards showcased include (NOTE: English spellings and character name changes presented as-is here): Son Goku (Mini): DA, Chi-Chi (Mini): DA, Krillin (Mini): DA, Son Goten (Mini): DA, Android 18 (Mini): DA, Vegeta (Mini): DA, Bulma (Mini): DA, Trunks (Mini): DA, Hercule (Mini): DA, Majin Buu (Mini): DA. Starter decks (FS06 and FS07) are on their way November 8th, and another booster pack is coming in February 2025 set to include Glorio: DA and Panzy: DA cards.
To wrap up the video game announcements, next year’s Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2025 will be held January 18-19, 2025 at the Shrine Hall in Los Angeles, California.
At this point Dragon Ball franchise Executive Producer Akio Iyoku was welcomed to the stage, where he noted it’s been a full year since New York Comic Con last year (where Dragon Ball Daima was officially announced), and that it was great to be back.
Stephanie Nadolny was also introduced and officially confirmed as the English dub voice for Goku: Mini in Dragon Ball Daima. Nadolny took over the role from Saffron Henderson (Vancouver cast) and Ceyli Delgadillo (Texas cast) before her to voice young Goku in FUNimation English dub productions including the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT television series, the third Dragon Ball movie, and the 10th anniversary Dragon Ball movie. In the time since, young Goku has been played in video games, flashback material, etc. by Colleen Clinkenbeard.
The forthcoming theatrical debut of Dragon Ball Daima‘s first three English dubbed episodes was promoted, running in the US and Canada from November 10th to 12th.
Production materials from original franchise author Akira Toriyama were then shared with the audience. Iyoku confirmed that the Demon Realm is a world that was specifically designed for Daima by Toriyama, and that they paid a lot of attention to how Toriyama illustrated it as they produced the show. A particular troll that lives in the Demon Realm was highlighted, and it was explained that Toriyama didn’t just do the backgrounds, but the creatures and people who live in this world. An illustration of the troll specifically was then shared, followed by Glorio’s vehicle from the main key visual. Toriyama’s details including the inside layout and how it’s propelled. The audience was told to be on the lookout for this kind of detail in the show, as Toriyama was very particular about mechs, and thought a lot about how they move, and even how they are propelled in a different way because of being in the Demon World. An illustration of Glorio himself was then shown; Iyoku didn’t go into detail on his character, but just laughed and noted that he is indeed mysterious.
Alongside this design showcase, voice actor Aaron Dismuke was welcomed to the stage and confirmed as the English voice of Glorio.
A video message from opening and ending theme song artist Zedd was then shared:
What’s up New York Comic Con? This is Zedd, and I wanted to drop by and say hello, and I also wanted to share how excited I am for Dragon Ball Daima. I got to work on the theme song and end title with C&K and Ai, and it’s a dream come true. It was on the list of things I’ve dreamed of doing in my live because I grew up with Dragon Ball, and it’s been a huge inspiration for me, not just because I love the show, but the theme songs have been amazing and they’ve inspired me musically. So for me to get to work on these songs and hopefully inspire other people is… is a dream come true! So anyway, I just wanted to share how excited I am, and I hope you’re having an amazing time over there at New York Comic Con, and I’ll see you soon. Peace.
Rial, Nadolny, and Dismuke all reflected on the panel and Zedd comments before Iyoku wrapped things up with closing comments of his own, noting the series’ attractive characters, unpredictable story, and great action.
The panel closed with a group photo, and a transitioned into a screening of the (original Japanese language) first episode of the series.
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Dragon Ball Daima has begun, and with it comes updates to our “Episode Guide” here at Kanzenshuu!
The main page for Daima now contains a running list of episodes, and the first episode’s page is also (more or less) complete! Each of these episode pages moving forward will contain a full translation of the respective episode’s credits, a complete synopsis, and various notes including those about the simulcast translation and any quirks in the Japanese script, notable cast and crew, and any animation differences from material seen thus far in trailers.
Check Out Episode 1!As part of this overall update, the “Cast Guide” has also been updated with the new and adjusted voice cast roles, and our “Animation Staff Database” has crossed the threshold of 1,000 individuals!
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By way of a “SUPER and MOVIES Character Trailer” as well as a “Full Roster Reveal” (with developer commentary), the complete launch lineup of 181 playable characters in Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO‘s base roster have been revealed:
“Goku (Mini)” from the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series rounds things out as a technical 182nd launch character, though (at least for now) only as a pre-order bonus.
The full list of 181 base characters include (as noted on the official Sparking! ZERO website, with name spellings altered to match Kanzenshuu style guide standards and lightly alphabetized with additional minor placement adjustments):
- Anilaza
- Bardock
- Beerus
- Bergamo
- Bobbidi
- Bojack
- Bojack, Transformed
- Broly (Z)
- Broly (Z), Legendary Super Saiyan
- Broly (Z), Super Saiyan
- Broli (Super)
- Broli (Super), Super Saiyan
- Broli (Super), Super Saiyan Full Power
- Butta
- Cabba
- Cabba, Super Saiyan
- Cabba, Super Saiyan 2
- Caulifla
- Caulifla, Super Saiyan 2
- Cell, 1st Form
- Cell, 2nd Form
- Cell, Perfect
- Cell, Super Perfect
- Cell Jr.
- Chiaotzu
- Coola
- Coola, Final Form
- Dabra
- Dispo
- Dodoria
- Dr. Gero
- Dr. Uiro
- Freeza (Z), 1st Form
- Freeza (Z), 2nd Form
- Freeza (Z), 3rd Form
- Freeza (Z), 4th Form
- Freeza (Z), Full Power
- Mecha Freeza
- Freeza (Super)
- Golden Freeza
- Freeza Force Soldier
- Frost
- Garlic Jr., Transformed
- Ginyu
- Gogeta (Z), Super Saiyan
- Gogeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
- Gogeta (Super)
- Gogeta (Super), Super Saiyan
- Gogeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Boyhood)
- Gohan (Youth)
- Gohan (Youth), Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Youth), Super Saiyan 2
- Gohan (Adult)
- Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan
- Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan 2
- Great Saiyaman
- Ultimate Gohan
- Gohan (Future)
- Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Teen)
- Goku (Z-Early)
- Goku (Z-Mid)
- Goku (Z-Mid), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Z-End)
- Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan 2
- Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan 3
- Goku (GT)
- Goku (GT), Super Saiyan
- Goku (GT), Super Saiyan 3
- Goku (GT), Super Saiyan 4
- Goku (Super)
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct -Sign-
- Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct
- Goku Black
- Goku Black, Super Saiyan Rosé
- Goten
- Goten, Super Saiyan
- Gotenks
- Gotenks, Super Saiyan
- Gotenks, Super Saiyan 3
- Gurd
- Hirudegarn
- Hit
- Janemba
- Super Janemba
- Jheece
- Jiren
- Jiren, Full Power
- Kafla
- Kafla, Super Saiyan
- Kafla, Super Saiyan 2
- Kakunsa
- Kale
- Kale, Super Saiyan
- Kale, Super Saiyan (Berserk)
- Kewi
- King Cold
- Kuririn
- Majin Boo (Good)
- Majin Boo (Pure Evil)
- Majin Boo (Evil)
- Majin Boo (Gohan Absorbed)
- Majin Boo (Gotenks Absorbed)
- Majin Boo (Pure)
- Metal Coola
- Mr. Satan
- Nail
- Nappa
- No. 13
- Merged No. 13
- No. 16
- No. 17 (Z)
- No. 17 (Super)
- No. 18
- No. 19
- One-Star Dragon
- Super One-Star Dragon
- Oob (GT)
- Super Oob (GT)
- Pan (GT)
- Piccolo
- Piccolo, Fused with God
- Raditz
- Recoome
- Ribrianne
- Roasie
- Saibaiman
- Slug
- Slug, Giant Form
- Spopovich
- Tapion
- Tenshinhan
- Toppo
- Toppo, God of Destruction
- Trunks (Kid)
- Trunks (Kid), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (Melee)
- Trunks (Melee), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (Super), Super Saiyan
- Trunks (Sword)
- Trunks (Sword), Super Saiyan
- Trunks, Super Saiyan Grade III
- Future Trunks (Super)
- Tullece
- Turtle Hermit
- Turtle Hermit, Max Power
- Vegeta (Z-Scouter)
- Vegeta (Z-Early)
- Vegeta (Z-Early), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta, Super Saiyan Grade II
- Majin Vegeta
- Vegeta (Z-End)
- Vegeta (Z-End), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Z-End), Super Saiyan 2
- Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
- Vegeta (Super)
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Great Ape Vegeta
- Baby Vegeta (GT)
- Super Baby 1 (GT)
- Super Baby 2 (GT)
- Great Ape Baby (GT)
- Vegetto
- Vegetto, Super Saiyan
- Vegetto, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Videl
- Whis
- Yajirobe
- Yamcha
- Zamasu
- Merged Zamasu
- Merged Zamasu, Half-Corrupted
- Zarbon
- Zarbon, Transformed
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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This week’s November 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine reveals that next month’s December 2024 issue will contain a special one-shot manga by Toyotarō in support of the forthcoming Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade game:
話題のDCGをとよたろう先生が描いた特別読切漫画を掲載だ!!
A special one-shot manga drawn by Toyotarō-sensei about the hot new digital card game will be published!!
The November 2024 issue notes that the Dragon Ball Super manga — itself also by Toyotarō — will be off again next issue. This will mark the seventh straight issue since the manga went on hiatus following chapter 103 in the May 2024 issue (released back in March).
The December 2024 issue of V-Jump hits Japanese shelves 21 October 2024 for ¥650.
While other artists such as Yoshitaka Nagayama and Yūji Kasai have contributed manga adaptations of Dragon Ball video games before (primarily in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine), Toyotarō contributed a special one-shot manga for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 alongside the game’s launch back in October 2016. In Japan, the chapter was included within the game’s guide book, while internationally the chapter was included within a special “Time Patroller’s Guide” booklet accompanying the game’s Collector’s Edition.
Dragon Ball Super Divers is a forthcoming physical and digital card-based arcade game, effectively replacing the existing Dragon Ball Heroes run from the last 13 years. Super Divers was announced last May and is currently in development.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Toki, the main character from the Akira Toriyama one-shot Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe.
Toki
It was just a one-shot, but Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe was like one of those chapters in a serial that just make your heart dance with joy! I sometimes find myself having these wild fantasies, wondering if Sensei ever thought about maybe continuing the story…It was never released in a collected edition, so I really treasure my copy of the issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump where it was published!
Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe is a single-chapter (“one-shot”) manga by Akira Toriyama which ran in the 2010 No. 50 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 15 November 2010 in Japan, as part of the magazine’s “Top of the Super Legends” series.
Merluza, the fortune-teller and self-styled “Venusian” from Kintoki, makes a cameo appearance in the bottom-left of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman‘s fifth chapter title page:
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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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 thirty-seven entries, this month’s October 2024 issue brings us Masanori Morita (Rokudenashi Blues, Rookies) and their take on the series’ 24th volume cover:
Morita commented:
There was once a time when I was battling it out with Dragon Ball for the top spot in the reader surveys. This one week, I got 350 votes and thought I was going to win for sure, and then it turned out that Dragon Ball got 700. I turned these feelings of frustration into a cherished memory, and now it’s one of my go-to jokes whenever I’m at the bar; it’s something I brag about. Toriyama-sensei, those days I got to be serialized alongside you were like a shiny gem to me. Thank you so very much. I worked really hard on this illustration. What do you think? I really wish I could have gone out for a leisurely drink with you, even just once. And then I could say: “Do you remember that time when I was battling it out for first place with you, Sensei? There was this one week when I got 350 votes and thought ‘Hell yeah!’, and then it turned out that Dragon Ball…”
In a follow-up tweet, Morita stated:
I got to draw the Dragon Ball illustration published in the latest issue of Saikyō Jump. Sorry I put a nose on Kuririn, Toriyama-sensei.
今売ってる最強ジャンプに描かせてもらったドラゴンボールイラスト。
鳥山先生、クリリンに鼻を描いてしまってごめんなさい。 pic.twitter.com/hk7SZjSVr2— 森田まさのり (@HITMANmorita) September 10, 2024
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series. 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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Bandai Namco has released a new trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game featuring characters from the Dragon Ball GT television series:
As part of the trailer, the following playable characters were announced:
- Goku (GT)
- Pan (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan (GT)
- Baby Vegeta (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan 3 (GT)
- Super Baby 1 (GT)
- Super Baby 2 (GT)
- Oob (GT)
- Super Oob (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
- Golden Great Ape Baby Vegeta (GT)
- One-Star Dragon (GT)
- Super One-Star Dragon (GT)
- Vegeta: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
- Gogeta: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
Dragon Ball GT was an anime-only sequel series that originally ran on Fuji TV from 1996 to 1997, spanning 64 episodes and a single television special.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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In a re-post of the recent “main trailer” released for the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series, the streaming platform Crunchyroll announced they will make the series available for viewing alongside its 11 October 2024 debut:
A news post on the Crunchyroll website also accompanied the trailer, noting the specific territories wherein they will stream the show (including the Americas):
Dragon Ball DAIMA Streams on Crunchyroll Starting October 11
The new original story from Akira Toriyama begins this fallA brand-new story in the Dragon Ball universe is about to start as Dragon Ball DAIMA premieres October 11 on Crunchyroll! Beginning in the same year as the 40th anniversary of the original manga, Dragon Ball DAIMA will have Goku and friends experience a whole new world from the mind of series creator Akira Toriyama.
Dragon Ball DAIMA
- Release Date: October 11, Time to be announced
- Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia
The main staff for the series includes:
- Original work, Story & Character Design: Akira Toriyama
- Director: Yoshitaka Yashima
- Series Director: Aya Komaki
- Animation Character Design: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
- Series Composition and Scenario: Yuko Kakihara
Masako Nozawa returns to play Goku, with new cast members including Fairouz Ai as Panzy, Koki Uchiyama as Glorio, Yumiko Kobayashi as Supreme Kai (Mini), Showtaro Morikubo as Gomah, Junya Enoki as Degesu and Yoko Hikasa as Dr. Arinsu. The opening theme song “Jaka Jaan” is composed by Zedd, featuring C&K and lyrics by Yukinojo Mori. The ending theme song “NAKAMA” is composed and produced by Zedd, with AI writing the lyrics and and performing the vocals.
Stay tuned for more info when Dragon Ball DAIMA premieres next month!
Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series debuts 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan, and will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0512! Mike and Ajay chat about “the main trailer” for the upcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series, and then Mike goes it alone for a bit to chat about the Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic and a new guide page on the website!
How to ListenOur podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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Referenced Sites:* TRANSLATIONS ARCHIVE: Dragon Ball Z Son Goku Densetsu – Akira Toriyama × Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru * TRANSLATIONS ARCHIVE: Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1996 #13 Issue – “Dragon Ball, If You Please” * TRANSLATIONS ARCHIVE: Shenlong Times #7 * TRANSLATIONS ARCHIVE: Saikyō Jump, July 2014 Issue – Naho Ooishi goes to the source!! * TRANSLATIONS ARCHIVE: Dragon Ball Super Exciting Guide Character Volume – The Truth About the Dragon Ball Manga * YOUTUBE: Dragon Ball Daima – The Main Trailer * MANGA GUIDE: Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic * PATREON POST: Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic Documentation Behind-the-Scenes * TWITTER: Mike * TWITCH: Mike * PATREON: Kanzenshuu
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After more than ten years, an unlinked section of our “Manga Guide” finally has a full web page: the Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic!
Check Out the Guide!From its debut with the Evil Dragons arc in the January 2014 issue of Saikyō Jump all the way through the end of the Baby arc a year ago, every single chapter is now detailed with its release date, issue price, chapter title and translation, episode coverage, etc. Near as we can tell, at the time we are publishing this page, this is the only complete listing of this manga series anywhere on the Internet!
Some fun behind-the-scenes information on the compilation of this guide page is available on our Patreon (consider joining if you appreciate and find this type of work helpful!).
We also have a big ask for the community alongside this launch:
Shueisha used to make digital preview pages available on the official Saikyō Jump website each time a new issue launched:
We saved a good number of these images a decade ago, but missed out on just as many. Are you crazy like us and saved old preview pages? And just to be clear: we’re not looking for scans, which we could do ourselves, but don’t want to break any more magazine spines; we’re looking for and specifically asking about these digital preview pages. Any leads on images we don’t already have populated on the guide page? Let us know!
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By way of social media and the Dragon Ball Official Site, a slew of announcements came out for the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series last night.
Key VisualA new key visual updates the previous version with the new tagline “Welcome to the Demon Realm!” (ようこそ、大魔界へ!!) as well as new character additions: Panzy (front and center), along with the previously-revealed Gomah and an as-of-yet-unnamed other character peeking over the edge at the top.
TrailerA new — somewhat voiced, for the first time! — trailer showcases some of the new characters, locales, etc. We see Goku, Kaiōshin, Glorio, and Panzy off on an adventure in the Demon Realm, with the latter part of the trailer set to the series’ theme song. Other characters are shown for the first time, including someone who looks suspiciously like a Kaiōshin as well as someone else with a unique hair style and smile sitting on a chair. Toward the end of the trailer, we also see Goku in his new “mini” state transforming into a Super Saiyan.
Voice CastIn addition to the previously-revealed Masako Nozawa returning as Goku himself, the latest round of announcements came with three voice cast reveals:
- Yumiko Kobayashi as Kaiōshin (Mini) (taking over for both Yūji Mitsuya as the original voice, and Shin’ichirō Ōta in GT and Super)
- Koki Uchiyama as Glorio (グロリオ Gurorio)
- Fairouz Ai as Panzy (パンジ Panji)
Each of the three new actors provided comments on the Dragon Ball Official Site news post:
Opening ThemeThe series’ all-new opening theme — “Jaka Jaan” — is a collaboration between EDM/pop producer Zedd, original Japanese Dragon Ball franchise lyrics stalwart Yukinojō Mori, and vocal duo C&K.
Each provided comments on the Dragon Ball Official Site news post:
Zedd previously teased this announcement August 27th on Twitter with a note about an upcoming composition and an obvious silhouette of Goku:
Following the announcement, Zedd shared an additional comment on Twitter:
I’ve been patiently waiting to share this news:
I’m beyond excited to announced that I had the incredible honor to compose the opening theme song “Jaka Jaan” for Dragon Ball DAIMA!!!Being given the opportunity to write music for a show that influenced many of my childhood years is an absolutely dream come true.
Thank you @ck4649 @keen_ck @yukinojo_news @DB_super2015
Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series debuts 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan, and will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
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As teased in the book’s description prior to release, Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission manga series received a brand-new 30th chapter in last week’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES― guide book.
The three-page chapter — titled “Onward To The Next Hero” (次のヒーローへ Tsugi no Hiirō e) — is presented in full color.
Fourteen years have passed in the blink of an eye. They really saved the world back then. Without even knowing it, the next generation is here having a tournament… but perhaps they will save the world, too. It’s Beat’s turn to lead them! It’s time for another battle… Good luck, and thank you, Beat! Thank you, Dragon Ball Heroes!
The full B5-sized Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES― book was released 29 August 2024 for ¥1,760 + tax. The book spans 112 pages covering the latest Meteor Mission content as well as retrospective content about the full Dragon Ball Heroes series, and comes packed with several Dragon Ball Heroes cards representing and celebrating the history of the game. The book is available for purchase on Amazon Japan.
The series’ previous chapter — a special 29th chapter following the original 28 chapters in serialization from 2012 to 2014 — was published in November 2015’s Bandai Official 5th Anniversary Fanbook: Dragon Ball Heroes 5th Anniversary Mission. The original 28 chapters (and later including the 29th) were never collected into a physical volume, though they were made available for free digitally on V-Jump‘s official website for an extended period of time, but have since been taken down.
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The long-in-production Dragon Ball Daima series has finally received a concrete debut date and time: Friday, 11 October 2024, at 11:40 PM JST on Fuji TV. The first episode is slated to have an additional 10 minutes of content.
The announcement was made Sept. 2 during the program lineup revision presentation held at Fuji TV headquarters in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Regarding the production of Dragon Ball Daima, Programming Director Yūichi Nakajima revealed, “all the episodes are ready.” With regards to the timeslot, he explained, “Since it’s a brand-new work, we want fans to see it on a nationwide broadcast. Up till now we’d broadcast on Sunday mornings as well, but it’s not nationwide. We also have the aim of making it easy for our target demographic of Dragon Ball fans to watch.” With high expectations for this work, he stated, “I hope we can really spread the notion that ‘Dragon Ball just has to be on Fuji TV’.”
The “it’s not nationwide” comment refers to the fact that each local affiliate varies in its exact lineup and schedule.
Dragon Ball originally debuted on Fuji TV back in February 1986, airing Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, inheriting its timeslot from an adaptation of Toriyama’s own former series, Dr. Slump. This timeslot was further inherited by Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and finally the 1997 reboot of Dr. Slump.
Following the Dr. Slump reboot, the TV series adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece took over the timeslot, but was later shifted to a Sunday morning timeslot in 2006. When Dragon Ball returned to the airwaves for Dragon Ball Kai in 2009, it ran alongside One Piece on Sunday mornings (in the so-called “Dream 9” block, referring to its 9:00 AM start time). After the “refreshed” versions of Kai‘s first three story arcs, the Toriko TV series ran alongside One Piece until Kai‘s return for the Boo arc in 2014, which then ran directly into the full Dragon Ball Super television series from 2015 to 2018.
Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
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In conjunction with the “Goku’s Best Bout Poll” conducted via the Dragon Ball Official Site, Toyotarō provided an original drawing showcasing the winning fight in last week’s October 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine:
Toyotarō commented:
I love this match, too! A flurry of gags and techniques that can only be seen in this early part of the series! We get to see both Jackie’s experience and Goku’s talent in this splendid match that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. I really like Jackie as a character, so I made sure to be really particular about his pose!
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 August 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Abel, the main character from the anime series Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel:
ABEL (from Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel)
I have memories of being glued to the screen while watching this show when I was in primary school. I still get emotional when I hear the ending theme from Hideaki Tokunaga-san!
Though Legend of the Hero Abel had an extensive staff outside of the franchise’s original creators (perhaps most notably Rintaro!), Akira Toriyama himself did produce several character designs for the 1989 series, including Abel himself:
(image from the 1990 artbook release, Akira Toriyama: The World)This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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We are often spread thin and working on a million things at once — check out our Otakon 2024 panel! — which occasionally results in us putting things up on the site aaaaand… completely forgetting to announce them!
Databook Guide: Dragon Ball Theatrical Movie GuidesFrom Dragon Ball‘s debut at the Winter 1986 Toei Cartoon Festival all the way up through 2022’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero debut, we now have it all covered! This includes theatrical pamphlets, special Jump magazine releases, attendee bonus items, and even special newspaper publications!
This is actually a section I’ve been somewhat embarrassed hasn’t already existed here on the site, so it’s great to finally own the complete collection and get the details down in one place.
Check Out the Guide!Translation: Weekly Tokyo Keizai — “Fervor and Chaos Regarding the ‘Dragon Ball Money'”Last month, this article from an issue of the magazine Weekly Tokyo Keizai — following up on last year’s news about Akio Iyoku striking out on his own — made the rounds, with a report on what appears to be major issues surrounding the various rights and direction of the Dragon Ball marketing and production machine, particularly in the wake of Akira Toriyama’s passing.
We have completed our own translation of this article.
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With Dragon Ball Super Divers on the horizon, the next Dragon Ball Heroes guide book looks to perhaps be a retrospective wrap-up rather than another standard anniversary book — Shueisha and other online retailers have listed a 29 August 2024 release date and ¥1,760 + tax price tag for a forthcoming book titled Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES―.
The B5-sized book with span 112 pages and come packed with several Dragon Ball Heroes cards representing and celebrating the history of the game:
The book is also slated to contain the “final chapter” of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission manga series (originally serialized in V-Jump from 2012-2014); whether this refers to the previously-published “Chapter 29” or something new all-together is not clear from the existing verbiage.
This 2024 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, the 11th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2021, the 12th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2022, and the 13th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2023. 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: Meteor Mission! manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Ultimate Mission!!, Big Bang Mission!!!, and Ultra God Mission!!!! series) currently runs in Shueisha’s monthly Saikyō 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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Show DescriptionEpisode #0511! Recorded live at Otakon 2024, Mike presents a whirlwind tour of Akira Toriyama’s works and legacy! From “Awawa World” to “Jaco the Galactic Patroman” (and beyond!), we cover it all!
How to ListenSpecial note for this episode: the audio podcast contains additional opening and ending content, as well as the Q&A session from the panel — these are not present in the YouTube video archive of the panel.
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By way of the company’s and franchise’s official social media accounts today, Bandai Namco announced a new multiplayer online battle arena (“MOBA”) video game for the Dragon Ball franchise, tentatively titled “Dragon Ball Project: Multi”:
The game will feature 4-vs-4 battles and is slated for release on iOS, Android, and PC (via Steam). A regional beta is planned for Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States spanning 20 August 2024 to 03 September 2024.
The Dragon Ball franchise’s first team-oriented battle begins!
◆ Intense 4 VS 4 team battle
Experience the world of Dragon Ball through wrecking the battlefield with your own strength, or by conquesting the enemy objective with your friends and allies.
The Hero characters you take in control will grown in strength as the round progress to give you a chance to obliterate enemy players and bosses alike.◆ Heroes with roles
Pick heroes with unqiue abilities and skills to fulfill their roles.
– The simple but effective super aggressive damage role.
– The ever persistent tank role staying on the battlefield indefinitely.
– The technical role which excells in ally support or enemy disruption.◆ Customization
From simple character aesthetic changes with skin items, to animation changes, express your love for the characters in your own way.
Acquire a wide variety of customization items such as entrance animations to special finisher animations.Internet connection required.
This product is a multiplayer game that is played mainly through online matches between players.
*Online matches allow you to play against players from all over the world. You will match with people whose network conditions are optimal for the region you play in.
The game is in development by Ganbarion, who previously developed 2016’s Dragon Ball Fusions on Nintendo 3DS, 2006’s Jump Ultimate Stars on Nintendo DS, and 2005’s Jump Super Stars on Nintendo DS.
An official website for the game has opened at: dbpm.bn-ent.net
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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 thirty-six entries, this month’s September 2024 issue brings us Yoshihiro Togashi (YuYu Hakusho, Hunter × Hunter) and their take on the series’ 5th volume cover:
Togashi commented:
Drawing this piece was like going back to those times, so it was really fun! When I finished drawing, I came to my senses, and was overcome with emotion so strong I could almost cry, so I just read Dragon Ball Volume 5, which was right in front of me. Yup, I’m not lonely at all! Toriyama-sensei is right here!!
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series and Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series. 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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The latest addition to our “Translations” archive is a special one: an interview with Akira Toriyama, spoken aloud by the man himself from the first “Jump Original CD” release (WJ-0004) from 1993!
Read the Full Translation!The two “Jump Original CD” releases were giveaways drawn by lottery in conjunction with Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1993 and 1994, and feature special talks with Akira Toriyama, in-character appearances with Masako Nozawa, and more. More contents from these CDs are coming to our “Translations” archive in the future… so stay tuned!
A subtitled audio version of this translation premiered live this evening during our “Akira Toriyama Career Retrospective” panel at Otakon 2024!
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The “Rumor Guide” has been a consistent favorite of staff and visitors alike here at Kanzenshuu — the entries are a blast to put together, and they each act as an authoritative, one-stop-shop with verified original research and (generally!) definitive answers.
As part of the guide’s latest update, one new entry has been added… which in many ways was more of an excuse for a teaching moment about the art of translation, rather than any of us actually being particularly concerned about the ultimate answer!
Confused? Read on!
RUMOR: Goku Never KissedThe question of whether or not Goku has kissed — after all, he was married and had kids! — was never actually a question until late-2016 when Dragon Ball Super threw a couple curious lines of dialogue into the mix. What’s significantly more important than what otherwise appears to be the question at hand here, however, is that the Dragon Ball Super anime and manga were both translated correctly in their official English localizations.
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In conjunction with an announcement on the Dragon Ball Official Site, a new trailer for the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima animated series reveals a slightly-more-concrete October 2024 release timeframe, along with a batch of new character announcements:
New key artwork showcases “mini” Goku and Kaiōshin, along with a new catchphrase: “Welcome to the Great Adventure!” (ようこそ、大冒険へ！！).
New characters seen in the artwork, trailer, and showcased on the official website — from left to right — include (note: “English” spellings for new characters written here are taken and adapted from the Dragon Ball Official Site‘s respective article):
- Gomah (ゴマー; Gomā)
- Masked Majin (仮面の魔人; Kamen no Majin)
- Glorio (グロリオ; Gurorio)
- Goku (Mini)
- Kaiōshin (Mini)
- Vegeta (Mini)
- Piccolo (Mini)
The series’ official website is also now fully open at: dragonballdaima.com
Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series debuts in October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan, and will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
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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 thirty-five entries, this month’s August 2024 issue brings us Takehiko Inoue (Slam Dunk, Vagabond) and their take on the series’ 17th volume cover:
Inoue commented:
I was very happy and extremely blessed to have had a series running at the same time and in the same magazine as Dragon Ball.
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series and Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series. 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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With the Dragon Ball Super manga currently on hiatus following the completion of the “Super Hero arc” (back with chapter 103), Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine has transitioned once again to a series of “Dragon Ball Interval Special” columns each issue until the series’ reported return.
Following his drawings and comments in the June and July 2024 issues of V-Jump, Toyotarō has contributed a new entry with a focus on Trunks in the August 2024 issue:
Read the Full Translation!This entry has been added to our “Translations” section.
These drawings are separate from the regular “Toyotarō Drew It!” entries that he provides each month on the Dragon Ball Official Website.
The back of this (current/most-recent) August 2024 issue of V-Jump notes that the Dragon Ball Super manga will continue to be off next issue (the September 2024 issue, due out later this month in July).
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Bandai Namco has released a new “Sword vs Fists” trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game:
In addition to the character blocks previously revealed, the following playable characters were announced, both through the trailer and a Bandai Namco EU blog post (note that bracketed text is our own further clarification for these characters]:
- Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct -Sign-
- Super Vegetto [Super Saiyan]
- Yajirobe
- Dabra
- Spopovich
- Goku Black [Normal]
- Goku Black, Super Saiyan Rosé
- Future Trunks [Dragon Ball Super]
- Ribrianne
- Roasie
- Anilaza
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 June 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Chrono, the main character from the video game Chrono Trigger:
CHRONO (from Chrono Trigger)
There were a bunch of key artwork illustrations drawn by Toriyama-sensei‘s own hand, and I loved it all, including them.
The main character’s name is often shortened to “Crono” due to spacing limitations for character names back during the original English localization.
The role-playing video game Chrono Trigger was originally developed by Square for the Nintendo Super Famicom / Super SNES, released March 1995 in Japan and August 1995 in America. The game was a product of the era’s so-called “Dream Team”: Final Fantasy franchise father Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest franchise father Yuji Horii, and artwork and character designs by Akira Toriyama. The game was notable for bringing together storytelling and design elements from both Sakaguchi’s and Horii’s respective game series, long before the Square and Enix merger eight years later.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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The first collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama is set for release 02 August 2024 in Japan for ¥616 + tax.
Recent compilations of Nagayama’s manga have included five chapters each. The eighth Meteor Mission! chapter was serialized earlier this month in the July 2024 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine.
Yoshitaka Nagayama debuted in a supplemental booklet packed in with the December 2013 issue of Saikyō Jump, with “Dragon Ball Heroes: Rookie Charisma Mission 0” depicting the daily life and “training” of Engineer Yoshito and new Battle Navigators Tsubasa and Momo-chan in a cartoony style. The Charisma Mission series eventually received its own standard serialization in Saikyō Jump beginning in the July 2014 issue, followed by traditional story serials beginning with Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission! beginning in the September 2016 issue, Universe Mission!! beginning in the May 2018 issue, followed yet again by Big Bang Mission!!! beginning in the May 2020 issue, and yet again by Ultra God Mission!!!! beginning in the April 2022 issue. Following its own completion in the November 2023 issue of Saikyō Jump, it was announced that another new series — Meteor Mission! — would take its place in the following issue.
The various Dragon Ball Heroes manga series remain without an official English translation and release.
After over 13 years, Dragon Ball Heroes as a brand is finally set to to end with the current “Meteor Mission” updates, to be followed by the brand-new Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade system.
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Following up on last week’s release date trailer, Bandai Namco has released a new “Game Mode Showcase” trailer for the forthcoming video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO detailing options for both single- and multi-player experiences:
In the game’s single-player “Episode Battle” mode, players take the point of view from eight total characters (including Goku and Vegeta) to experience battles from throughout the franchise (which the trailer specifically calls out as just “Dragon Ball Z” and “Dragon Ball Super”). Each stage includes a unique introduction before throwing players into battle. The number of stages and battles vary by character in this mode; an example given is Goku, whose “Episode Battle” experience has the largest number of stages, and goes from his confrontation with Raditz up through the Tournament of Power. Certain stages allow the player to make a choice that may differ from the original story, allowing new outcomes to happen — an example highlighted is Goku turning Super Saiyan during his battle with Great Ape Vegeta on Earth.
The “Custom Battle” mode is just that: a series of custom fights not necessarily ripped from the original story; examples with Mr. Satan going up against a lineup of powerful opponents are displayed throughout this showcase. Within the “Custom Battle” mode are additional “Bonus Battles” with different victory conditions and cutscenes during gameplay. “Edit Mode” allows players to create their own “Custom Battle” conditions with altered pre- and post-battle cutscenes, which can then be uploaded and shared online for others to play.
The topic of local multiplayer/versus battles was also addressed, with the explanation that priority was given to to visual effects (such as weather changing in response to the characters’ energy) and destructible environments, which led to the initial implementation of only online multiplayer/versus battles. In response to feedback, however, the game will now feature this local option, though only on a single stage: the Room of Spirit and Time (which inherently has much less of an environment to account for). Due to the game’s previous priorities and development cycle, while this option will now be availabe to players, there are some unique quirks to this mode, such as players not being able to choose their characters at the same time.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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With the Dragon Ball Super manga currently on hiatus following the completion of the “Super Hero arc” (back with chapter 103), Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine has transitioned once again to a series of “Dragon Ball Interval Special” columns each issue until the series’ reported return.
Alongside general story arc and character recaps, Toyotarō has provided exclusive new drawings and comments for these last two “Interval Special” columns in the June and July 2024 issues of V-Jump, respectively: those of Gevo and Gohan Beast.
Translations of Toyotaro’s comments and the respective V-Jump setup for both Gevo and Gohan Beast have been added to our “Translations” section.
These drawings are separate from the regular “Toyotarō Drew It!” entries that he provides each month on the Dragon Ball Official Website.
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In conjunction with its debut today during the Summer Game Fest 2024 live stream, Bandai Namco has released a new “Release Date Announcement” trailer for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game, revealing its 11 October 2024 international release date (following its 10 October 2024 release date for Japan, as separately announced):
The trailer showcases a wealth of new characters and story mode material (including player choices and “What If?”-styled scenarios). Bandai Namco’s upload also goes on to showcase additional product versions and pre-order bonus details:
- The pre-order bonus includes “6 characters early-unlock” (three versions each of Gogeta and Broli based on their Dragon Ball Super: Broly designs) plus one additional (undisclosed) playable character
- A “Premium Collector’s Edition” exclusive to the Bandai Namco Store includes a lenticular card, steelbook, diorama, Fusion World cards, season pass access and bonus items, etc.
- Of particular note, the “Season Pass” details indicate Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and Dragon Ball Daima content with “20+ playable characters”
- “Deluxe Edition” and “Ultimate Edition” versions include access to play the game three days ahead of release date and early access to downloadable content
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam).
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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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 thirty-four entries, this month’s July 2024 issue brings us Toyotarō (Dragon Ball Super) and their take on the series’ 39th volume cover:
Toyotarō commented:
When it comes to snow country, I immediately think of Muscle Tower, so I went with a situation where they’re being chased by the ghosts of the Red Ribbon Army! All of Toriyama-sensei‘s illustrations are already perfectly composed, so I was quite humbled by the experience. Come to think of it, Toriyama-sensei had said right along that out of the illustrations he drew, there were hardly any he really liked. “That can’t be true when he draws such amazing stuff!” I thought, so one time I went ahead and asked him directly. His response was, “People of our generation don’t really do stuff like bragging about our own work.” Judging from that, I think he probably did have a favorite illustration or two, but that wasn’t the sort of thing the creator himself should be going on about. That’s how I interpreted it. I remember thinking that was so cool and just like him, and I came to admire him even more than before. Congratulations on 40 years! Now and forever, Dragon Ball will never die.
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series and Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series. 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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Alongside a slew of other announcements today, Viz announced a forthcoming spring 2025 release of Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques, an English-translated version of the 2023 Japanese book which includes a variety of career reflections, advice for upcoming artists, and interviews with colleagues from legendary editor Kazuhiko Torishima.
Announcement: Learn how to make manga from past editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump, Kazuhiko Torishima, who collaborated with masters of the craft. Dr. Mashirito's Ultimate Manga Techniques, written by Kazuhiko Torishima with Takanaka Shimotsuki, releases Spring 2025. pic.twitter.com/fZWjuNH4KQ
— VIZ (@VIZMedia) May 31, 2024
Alongside a wealth of other content, Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques includes an interview with (and an original cover illustration by) the late and great Akira Toriyama.
The book will be translated for its English release by David Evelyn.
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Bandai Namco has released a new “Fused Warriors” trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game:
In addition to the 61 character blocks previously revealed, the following playable characters were announced (through both the trailer showcase and a Bandai Namco EU blog post):
- Trunks (Kid: Normal, Super Saiyan)
- Caulifla (Normal, Super Saiyan 2)
- Goten (Normal, Super Saiyan)
- Kale (Normal, Super Saiyan)
- Gotenks (Normal, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 3)
- Kafla (Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2)
- Vegetto (Normal, Blue)
- Gogeta (Super: Normal, Super Saiyan, Blue)
- Merged Zamasu (Normal, Half-Corrupted)
Though a specific release date has not been announced, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam). Per the latest trailer, more information is due on the game during Summer Game Fest 2024.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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The “Rumor Guide” has been a consistent favorite of staff and visitors alike here at Kanzenshuu — the entries are a blast to put together, and they each act as an authoritative, one-stop-shop with verified original research and (generally!) definitive answers. As part of the guide’s latest update, two new entries have been added!
RUMOR: Pan Can/Can’t Turn Super SaiyanWhile we have never actually seen Pan turn into a Super Saiyan, different supplemental guidebook statements and production staff interviews seem to contradict each other. Had either the Dragon Ball GT story continued, or perhaps in the as-of-yet-still-undetermined future of the franchise, could Pan have ever transformed…?
Read the Full Story!RUMOR: Akira Toriyama Created Battle of Gods in Response to Dragon Ball EvolutionWhile Akira Toriyama did later become more involved in productions in part due to Dragon Ball Evolution, the fact of the matter is that Battle of Gods was already in development at Toei Animation without Toriyama to begin with!
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Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 April 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Shu, the main character from the video game Blue Dragon:
Blue Dragon was originally a video game with character designs by Toriyama-sensei, but as a V-Jumper (someone who really likes V-Jump), I wholeheartedly recommend the comic drawn by Noriko Otake! Since the original character designs were drawn by Toriyama-sensei, it was a wonderful story that could be enjoyed as a Toriyama comic!
The role-playing video game Blue Dragon was developed by Mistwalker exclusively for the Xbox 360 (published by Microsoft Game Studios), released December 2006 in Japan and August 2007 internationally. The game was part of Microsoft’s outreach efforts to secure Japanese-developed games for the Xbox 360 that would appeal to Japanese audiences to make inroads for their console and ecosystem. Alongside other notable staff members, the game featured writing by Final Fantasy franchise father Hironobu Sakaguchi and artwork and character designs by Akira Toriyama (who previously worked together on Chrono Trigger). The game also featured an original soundtrack by Final Fantasy veteran composer Nobuo Uematsu.
Various sequels and spin-off media were created under the Blue Dragon franchise banner, including the aforementioned manga — The Seven Heavenly Dragons: Battle in the Floating City — by Noriko Otake serialized in V-Jump (the same magazine that Toyotaro’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission and Dragon Ball Super manga have been serialized). This particular manga was a spin-off adaptation of the television series (where Noriko Otake served as animation director), taking place between episodes 22 and 23. Otake’s manga was preceded by two other spin-off manga adaptations: Blue Dragon Ral Ω Grad by Tsuneo Takano and Takeshi Obata (running in Weekly Shōnen Jump), and Blue Dragon ST by Ami Shibata (running in Monthly Shōnen Jump).
The original Blue Dragon Xbox 360 game is part of Microsoft’s backward compatible lineup, and remains playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles. In America, the game is currently on sale digitally for $6.59.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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In conjunction with the release of the Sand Land video game last month, the game’s official social media accounts shared a new comment from original author Akira Toriyama:
◤#鳥山明 先生のコメントを公開 ◢
ゲーム『#SANDLAND』の発売を記念して、
鳥山明先生が開発中のゲーム映像をご覧になった際にいただいたコメントを公開します。※本コメントは2024年1月時点でいただいたものです。#サンドランド #sandlandgame pic.twitter.com/Jz1Twml2H9
— 【公式】ゲーム『SAND LAND（サンドランド）』 (@sandlandgame_jp) April 25, 2024
Regarding the Sand Land game, I still haven’t played or seen everything, but I can see that it greatly expands the lore of the original comic and adds in a lot of fun elements. It is super high-quality, and even as just a game, it’s a pretty satisfying action-RPG with no fluff, just the good stuff.
Regarding the graphics, they managed to strike a fantastic balance between capturing the feel of the original comic and employing a painterly art style that is pretty easy on the eyes. I never even knew that games could have visuals like these.
There are a lot of new machine designs, many of which have extensive modifications, not to mention all work that went into the backgrounds. You can really tell the developers have the sensibilities of true professionals. You’ll be sure to have tons of fun playing it!
In the game, you can explore not only Sand Land, but also the new Forest Land, an area that was not in the original comic, and it comes with brand-new characters, too. You’ll be able to have a blast going on an adventure as the Prince of Demons with a more fleshed-out story and a vast map to explore.
I myself can only play easy games, but I sometimes check out the modern games my family plays, so despite being an old man, I think I’m still somewhat up to date.
I wholeheartedly recommend the Sand Land game!!
— Akira Toriyama
The post for the comment specifically notes that it was received back in January. Toriyama passed away two months later in March 2024.
Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. A new kanzenban edition was released in Japan last August; that same month, a colorized version of the manga began in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine in the September 2023 issue.
Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year. The entire manga series is also available as part of Viz’s digital vault service.
The Sand Land theatrical film debuted 18 August 2023 in Japan with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima. Its home video release in Japan is due out 29 May 2024. The movie was expanded upon and received its own in-universe continuation by way of the Sand Land animated series, currently streaming worldwide.
The video game adaptation from Bandai Namco was released worldwide last month, and is available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam).
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In conjunction with “Goku Day” today, Bandai Namco announced the brand-new Dragon Ball Super Divers (ドラゴンボールスーパーダイバーズ) digital card-based arcade game currently in development:
The forthcoming game sports three digital touchscreen monitors, as well as a seated area with three large, physical, colored buttons.
The game is set to succeed and ultimately replace the currently-running Super Dragon Ball Heroes franchise, which — taking into consideration its original Dragon Ball Heroes incarnation — has been the mainline card-based arcade game series for thirteen years. Heroes itself took over for previous arcade games, such as Bakuretsu Impact and Dragon Battlers.
While Dragon Ball Super Divers is set to receive all-new card and gameplay mechanics, therefore making all previous Dragon Ball Heroes card incompatible, Bandai Namco producer “Akai” noted in a new video interview with Victory Uchida that they are looking into a “Dragon Ball Heroes Mode” to accommodate the wealth of cards that players have accumulated over the years. Akai explained that even with the “Dragon Ball Heroes” mode gameplay, however, any cards that the machine distributes back to players will be new Super Divers cards.
An official website for the new game has opened at: www.dbsdv.com
More information on the new game will be available at Jump Victory Carnival, which will be held 21 July 2024 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.
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: Meteor Mission! manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Ultimate Mission!!, Big Bang Mission!!!, and Ultra God 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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Back in March — alongside the release of the May 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine and chapter 103 of the Dragon Ball Super manga within it — the “Dragon Ball Official Site” posted a brief interview with Toyotarō regarding his illustration for Dragon Ball Legends, as well as the Dragon Ball Super manga. It was in this interview that we concretely learned that the three-chapter prologue for the “Super Hero arc” was headed by Toyotarō (with the usual Toriyama revisions), while the three-chapter epilogue was based on a scenario that Toyotarō asked Toriyama himself directly to write.
Please share with us your feelings on the chapter included in the super-sized May issue of V-Jump, which is both the climax and ending to the Super Hero arc.
Chapters 88-90 were a sort of prologue that I wanted to do, which I then drew after Toriyama-sensei revised it. Afterwards, in chapters 91-100, you obviously get the main material already present in the movie, and then the epilogue in chapters 101-103 was based on a scenario that I asked Toriyama-sensei to write. I revised a few bits of dialogue and some story beats here and there, but for the most part, the content is as Toriyama-sensei envisioned it. I’m incredibly thankful that I got to draw this story arc to its conclusion. Please enjoy the manga version of the “Super Hero Arc,” which has a bit of a different feel from the movie version!
Though the “Dragon Ball Official Site” includes English “translations,” these are actually based on machine/automated translations. With the impact of Toriyama’s recent passing and the notable tidbits within, we felt that this interview deserved better care — so we produced our own actual translation.
Read the Full Translation!The Dragon Ball Super manga is on hiatus following the conclusion of the “Super Hero arc” in chapter 103, and — as of the most recent issue (the June 2024 issue released late last month) — V-Jump has reverted to publishing its “Interval Special” column series in the meantime until the next arc begins.
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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 thirty-three entries, this month’s June 2024 issue brings us Hiroyuki Asada (I’ll, Letter Bee) and their take on the series’ 35th volume cover:
Asada commented:
I had the privilege of serving for six years as a judge for the Tezuka Award, so twice every year I would get to meet Akira Toriyama-sensei, exchange opinions, dine together, and hear lots of delightful stories. Toriyama-san was always easygoing and relaxed, and I loved that about him. The news of his passing came right before my deadline, and having to draw this volume’s illustration at this timing was heartbreaking.
More than anything, I can’t get Toriyama-san to see it. Still, I drew this with a prayer that it might reach him.
Thank you for everything. I love Dragon Ball.
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series and Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series. 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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Bandai Namco has released a new “Master and Apprentice” trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game:
In addition to the 51 character blocks previously revealed, the new trailer announced the following playable characters:
- Piccolo
- Gohan (Youth)
- Turtle Hermit
- Kuririn
- Yamcha
- Videl
- Gohan (Adolescent)
- Beerus
- Whis
- Gohan (Future) + Super Saiyan
- Trunks (Future) + Super Saiyan
Of note regarding some of these character reveals:
- Videl is showcased in gameplay with both her longer and shorter hairstyles, though this is represented by a single block on the ending splash.
- The Turtle Hermit shown in the latest trailer is separated from the “Turtle Hermit (Max Power)” showcased in a previous trailer.
- The new Trunks inclusions are likewise broken out as new blocks in the final splash.
- The future version of Gohan is notably shown with a single arm; previous gaming adaptions and implementations have rendered the character with two arms still intact, even when only fighting with a single arm.
- Though a “standard” version of No. 17 is showcased fighting in the trailer, no block separate from the previously-revealed “Dragon Ball Super” version is shown in the final splash.
- Bandai Namco’s corresponding write-up for this trailer does not specifically call out No. 17 or No. 18 as part of the roster. No. 18 on her own has been seen in the final splash since the first character reveal trailer, however.
Though a specific release date has not been announced, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam).
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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Following up on their Dragon Ball Z: Best Collection set from earlier this year, French company Microïds — by way of their Kana Music sublabel — are set to release another vinyl record set in the form of Dragon Ball Super: Original Soundtrack Volume 1, to begin shipping this spring for €49.99.
A total of 54 tunes will comprise the two-record set, which includes background music composed by Norihito Sumitomo for the first three story arcs of the Dragon Ball Super television series (themselves previously released on CD in Japan); no vocal opening or ending themes are included in the vinyl set. The tracklist is slated to include:
[Note: song titles are printed below verbatim from the Kana Music promotional imagery; refer to the “Dragon Ball Super” sub-section of our our “Music Database” for comprehensive translations and further information]
Disc 1 / Side A:
- To Tomorrow
- Believe in Yourself
- Believe in Yourself (Strings Version)
- A Powerful Enemy Appears
- Difficult Battle
- Crushing Defeat
- Sign of Victory
- Great Comeback
- Super Saiyan God
- Reconciliation
- Beerus’ Planet
- Beerus’ Teatime
- Beerus’ Madness
- Vegeta’s Strength
Disc 1 / Side B:
- Team Dragon’s Theme
- What’s Taking Goku So Long!?
- Under the Blue Sky
- Higgledy-Piggledy Town
- Scene of a Party
- A Romantic Night
- Like Those Clouds
- Scene of a Southern Island
- Fire Dance
- Fate of the Earth
- The Pilaf Gang’s Scheme
- The Pilaf Gang Flees
- I’m the Greatest in the World
- Infinitely Expansive Grand Universe
Disc 2 / Side A:
- Birth of a God
- Delightful Friends from Pluto
- Incident
- Probing Each Other
- CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA (Days of Battle)
- Delightful Days
- Gods of Destruction Invitational Fighting Tournament
- Champa’s Theme
- Chubby Waltz
- Resurrected Frieza
- Frieza’s Plot
- Premonition
- Terror of the Frieza Army
Disc 2 / Side B:
- Fear That Can’t Be Erased
- Into Battle
- A Close Battle
- Frieza’s Chosen
- Golden Frieza’s Theme
- Tough Opponent
- Time to Fight Back
- Waves of Battle
- Blue Saiyan
- Regret
- End of a Desperate Battle
- Endless Training
- Gods of Destruction Invitational Fighting Tournament Begins!
International distributors for the set include Cartridge Thunder (US $69; expected to ship this June), Black Screen Records (€58,00; expected to ship this June), Very OK Vinyl (CA $58.00; expected to ship this July), etc. Note that there is a limited pre-order window with many of these international distributors, and pre-order sales are often final / cannot be cancelled once made.
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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 thirty-two entries, this month’s May 2024 issue brings us Naho Ooishi (Dragon Ball SD) and her take on the series’ 18th volume cover:
Ooishi commented:
My first contact with the manga was when I was in kindergarten and couldn’t even read it, given to me by my father in place of a coloring book. Even after becoming an adult, I thankfully continued to be involved with Dragon Ball, so I was able to live my life alongside the larger-than-life Goku, who had become a father, and later a grandfather. It’s no exaggeration to say that Dragon Ball has occupied a very, very big presence throughout more than half my life. No matter how much I try, I will never be able to thank Toriyama-sensei enough for allowing me to live my life alongside the Dragon Ball. Thank you so, so much. I will continue to love Dragon Ball with aaaaaaaaaaall my heart from now on, too.
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 in 2021 (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: Meteor Mission! manga series and Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series. 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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Show DescriptionThe extended Kanzenshuu family and friend community comes together to share their memories of, gratitude toward, and the impact of Akira Toriyama.
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Roughly each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 early 2024 catch-up entry, Toyotarō has drawn Cashman, Dub, and Arale from the Akira Toriyama-related manga series from V-Jump‘s early days:
SAVINGS WARRIOR CASHMAN
I obviously like the first version penned by Toriyama-sensei that ran in the very first issues of V-Jump, but I also really like the later version penned by Nakatsuru-san!
DUB & PETER 1
This is another one of the manga that Toriyama-sensei ran in the very first issues of V-Jump. You have insufferable brats, machines, and an American style! It really makes you feel like you’re square in the middle of Toriyama world!
DR. SLUMP’S ARALE NORIMAKI
This is the version of Arale that Toriyama-sensei designed for the second series (the one that aired during the 90s). It got two manga in V-Jump, one drawn by Nakatsuru-san, and another drawn by Yamamuro-san.
Savings Warrior Cashman was originally published as three chapters over the span of 1990 to 1991 in the initial A5-size run issues of V-Jump, while Dub & Peter-1 was originally published as four chapters over the course of 1992 to 1993 in the next AB-size trial run issues of V-Jump — both series were penned by Akira Toriyama directly.
After this point, V-Jump went monthly beginning with the July 1993 issue (published that May), and went on to feature the aforementioned two Dr. Slump sequel manga series (with involvement from Takao Koyama, Yoshimi Narita, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, and Tadayoshi Yamamuro at different points), as well as a Cashman sequel series (from Takao Koyama and Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru).
Toriyama’s original Savings Warrior Cashman (as “Soldier of Savings Cashman”) and Dub and Peter 1 are both available in English as part of Viz’s “Akira Toriyama’s Manga Theater” collection.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Last August, Shueisha released a new kanzenban edition of Akira Toriyama’s 14-chapter manga series Sand Land. This new edition — mirroring the format and sizing of Dragon Ball‘s own kanzenban edition released from 2002 to 2004 — was updated to contain the original full-color versions of pages from its Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization, rough sketches from Akira Toriyama, as well as behind-the-scenes information.
The latest addition to our ever-growing “Translations” archive is just that: the full “Sand Land” Production Secrets interview with Akira Toriyama!
Read the Full Translation!Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. A new kanzenban edition was released in Japan last August; that same month, a colorized version of the manga began in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine in the September 2023 issue.
Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year. The entire manga series is also available as part of Viz’s digital vault service.
The Sand Land theatrical film debuted 18 August 2023 in Japan with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima. Its home video release in Japan is due out 29 May 2024. The movie was expanded upon and received its own in-universe continuation by way of the Sand Land animated series, currently streaming worldwide.
A video game adaptation from Bandai Namco is out worldwide this month, as well.
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Reflecting on the passing of original creator Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Super manga author and artist Toyotarō took to Twitter this week to share an anecdote about his review process with Toriyama for the most recent manga chapter.
Toyotarō noted that, at the end of his original draft for chapter 103, the characters all simply flew away with their backs turned. Upon review, Toriyama’s correction was for Piccolo to wave goodbye to Pan’s kindergarten teacher, which Toyotarō then felt had more meaning after Toriyama’s passing. Toyotarō then shared a new recreation of the original draft and correction — not the original versions, as he does not currently have permission to share those — in his extended Twitter thread:
So Dragon Ball Super will be on hiatus for now. Sorry about that. I’m not sure when chapters 101-103 will get printed in a collected volume, so please be sure to check them out on V-Jump! (You can also purchase back issues on Jump+!) Just one thing I would like to say regarding Chapter 103… (If you haven’t read it yet, spoilers ahead).
The truth is that, on the original storyboard that I drew for chapter 103, on the last page, everyone had their backs turned before flying off into the distance. But Sensei gave me one last correction: “Make Piccolo turn and wave goodbye to the kindergarten teacher.” (I couldn’t post the original storyboard without permission, so what you see below is my own recreation.) I got news of his passing after sending the finalized pages.
Therefore, it wasn’t with that intention that I drew Piccolo that way… but I now want to add that extra meaning onto that drawing. Thank you for everything, Toriyama-sensei. I was able to work alongside you for nine years. That really was a special time. Thank you so much. I pray from the bottom of my heart that you may rest in peace.
Examples of Toriyama’s corrections have been published before in the collected volumes of Dragon Ball Super, notably at the back of volumes 3, 6, 7, and 8.
Dragon Ball Super chapter 103 was published last week within the May 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine (and received a simultaneous worldwide release in various languages via services such as Viz’s Shonen Jump and Shueisha’s Manga Plus). The series is now on an indefinite hiatus.
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In conjunction with a new gameplay showcase stream this week, Bandai Namco has released a new “Power VS Speed” trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game:
In addition to the 40 character blocks previously revealed, the new trailer announced the following additional character inclusions:
- Super Trunks [Super Saiyan Grade 3 Future Trunks]
- Dispo
- Kakunsa
- Turtle Hermit (Max Power)
- Nappa
- Butta
- Toppo
- Jheese
- Super Saiyan Kale (Berserk)
- Super Saiyan Broli (Full Power) [Dragon Ball Super]
- Hit
As part of the gameplay showcase, game producer Jun Furutani noted that in keeping with the series’ history and expectations, battle systems such as the Dragon Dash, Impact Action, and counters have been kept from previous entries. In terms of new mechanics, Furutani noted that overall character movement has been boosted, and that dashing has therefore been adjusted to be even faster and can be incorporated into offensive and defensive techniques. A new “Skill Count” builds up during battle, which comes into play with two other new mechanics: the “Revenge Counter” lets you strike back while absorbing an opponent’s attack, while “Super Perception” is a counter command that lets the player preemptively counterattack in anticipation of upcoming attacks, including ki blasts. A new ki action called “Vanishing Assaults” lets you swoop in and approach the opponent instantly.
Though a specific release date has not been announced, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam).
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan / Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
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The expanded adaptation of Sand Land — originally a theatrical film that debuted in Japan last summer — formally hit streaming services worldwide yesterday (20 March 2024).
Spanning 13 total episodes, the expanded series covers the events of last year’s film (itself covering and expanding upon the events of the original 14-chapter manga series) over the course of the first six episodes in the “Demon Prince arc”, and then moves on to all-new content developed in conjunction with original author Akira Toriyama in the “Angelic Hero arc” for the remainder of the series.
For the series’ streaming debut, the first seven episodes — all six of the first arc, and the first of the brand-new arc — were all posted at once. Moving forward, one new episode will be posted each Wednesday. The series is largely being handled by Disney+ worldwide, with the United States in particular receiving the series via Hulu.
The series also received new opening and ending themes: the opening theme is “Water Carrier” by Kroi, while the ending theme is “Drive My Idea” by Tempalay. Both groups provided new comments alongside the series’ debut:
OPENING THEME
“Water Carrier” by Kroi
Lyrics: Leo Uchida
Composition & Arrangement: Kroi
(IRORI Records / PONY CANYON)Comment from Kroi
We, Kroi, will be handling the opening theme of SAND LAND: The Series, based on the original work by Akira Toriyama-sensei, with our new single “Water Carrier”!Actually, it’s actually close to two years ago that we received word of this and recorded the song, so we’re happy to finally be able to share this news with everyone!
The world where Beelzebub & co.’s adventure unfolds is one where what’s “good” and what’s “evil” isn’t clear, and real the truth seems to be something that doesn’t come neat and tidy. We think our song came out as something will allow you to get even more thrills and excitement out of that world!
Please enjoy our song “Water Carrier” alongside SAND LAND: The Series!
ENDING THEME
“Drive My Idea” by Tempalay
Lyrics & Composition: Ryōto Ohara
Arrangement: Tempalay
(unBORDE / Warner Music Japan)Comment from Tempalay
We love the vehicles drawn by Akira Toriyama-san, and even in private we call them “Akira Toriyama-style”. We were in elementary school during Sand Land‘s original run. The big buzzwords of the time that impacted us as kids were Nostradamus’ Predictions and the Y2K Problem, and in the middle of all that, Sand Land‘s post-apocalyptic vibe left a lasting impression. I think it was an era that balanced excitement with a vague sense of dread.We hope you’ll get that same double-faceted feeling from the song we’ve provided.
…Which is me trying to sound all cool, but the reality is, I’ve been a super-fan since I was little, so I’m seriously hyped! I hope my classmates stumble upon this comment and read it! KURIRIN!
—Ryōto Ohara (Tempalay)
Following Dragon Ball‘s completion, Akira Toriyama produced various one-shots and short works for Shueisha including Alien Peke and Tokimecha in 1996, and Bubul of Demon Village in 1997. Series with longer runs — serializations that would ultimately comprise a single tankōbon — were also produced, including COWA! in 1997, Kajika in 1998, and Sand Land in 2000.
Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. A new kanzenban edition was released in Japan last August; that same month, a colorized version of the manga began in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine in the September 2023 issue.
Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year. The entire manga series is also available as part of Viz’s digital vault service.
The Sand Land theatrical film debuted 18 August 2023 in Japan with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima. Its home video release in Japan is due out 29 May 2024.
A video game adaptation from Bandai Namco is out worldwide this April, as well.
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Last July, Shueisha released an expanded collection of content from Kazuhiko Torishima originally printed within the company’s Saikyō Jump magazine: titled Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Technique (Dr.マシリト 最強漫画術), the 196-page book includes a variety of career reflections, advice for upcoming artists, and interviews with colleagues.
New and exclusive to the book was an interview with Akira Toriyama himself, which is the latest addition to our ever-expanding “Translations” archive.
Read the Full Translation!Though the entire early-career retrospective/chat is enlightening, one particular section may garner a little more attention than others:
Toriyama:
That’s the hardest thing about action manga. If you draw it on the same level as the previous fight, it’ll seem to the readers that the level has actually gone down. So I gradually came to believe that there’s a limit to making the characters stronger. In terms of having to take the level of action portrayals even higher, it got quite difficult from around the time the battle with Freeza ended.Torishima:
That would have been the best place to stop, too. (laughs)Toriyama:
That’s rich, coming from you. (laughs)Torishima:
Well, when it got to have such runaway popularity, we couldn’t very well have that, now could we?
An exploration of this exchange — which to most casual readers would appear to be a throwaway comment and laugh between friends — has been added to the respective page in our “Intended Endings Guide” here on Kanzenshuu.
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The official Dragon Ball games Twitter account — both in Japanese and in English (by way of Bandai Namco) — announced today that the 2020 video game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is set to receive continued development support.
ドラゴンボールZKAKAROT
『ドラゴンボールZ KAKAROT』は今後も展開を予定しております。
どうぞ続報をお待ちください！— 「ドラゴンボール」家庭用ゲーム公式 (@dbgame_official) March 21, 2024
『ドラゴンボールZ KAKAROT』は今後も展開を予定しております。
どうぞ続報をお待ちください！”
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.
Two season passes worth of content — with six individual packs in total — have come out since the game’s release. In the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story. The second season pass includes entries for the original 1990 Bardock television special, the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai, and the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai.
In terms of mainline continuity content, the game now already effectively covers everything from the final battle with Demon King Piccolo up through an expanded epilogue of the manga.
Reviews of the base game, Trunks DLC, Bardock DLC, 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC, and 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC can be found on episodes #0481, #0490, #0497, #0505, and #0509, respectively, of our podcast.
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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 ...
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A “Dragon Ball Special Panel” has been announced for New York Comic Con this year. The panel will be held on the Empire Stage at the Javits Center in New York City from 12:45 to 1:45 pm (EDT) on 12 October 2023.
Delivering the latest information on the world-famous manga and anime franchise, “Dragon Ball”.
We will talk about new developments in the Dragon Ball series, along with a mysterious new teaser. Also the appearance of special guests!
The upcoming Dragon Ball presence at New York Comic Con has been promoted across many of the related official social media channels and websites, including the Japanese Dragon Ball website.
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In promotion of its recent release, the first 15 minutes of the new Sand Land theatrical film have been shared on YouTube. Alongside this video promotion, original author Akira Toriyama shared a new comment (alongside a drawing of the Swimmers’ Papa):
To all of you wonderful people that have already seen the movie Sand Land: thank you so very much!
Not all that many people have seen it yet, but thankfully, the reviews have been pretty good, and some wonderful people even said that they were unexpectedly moved by it! People seem to have particularly enjoyed the machine models, and that is entirely thanks to the animation staff.
If you still haven’t decided whether you want to go see the movie or not, or if you have decided and just don’t feel like going… don’t say that, and please go see the movie!
— AKIRA TORIYAMA
Following Dragon Ball‘s completion, Toriyama produced various one-shots and short works for Shueisha including Alien Peke and Tokimecha in 1996, and Bubul of Demon Village in 1997. Series with longer runs — serializations that would ultimately comprise a single tankōbon — were also produced, including COWA! in 1997, Kajika in 1998, and Sand Land in 2000.
Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year.
The Sand Land theatrical film debuted 18 August 2023 in Japan with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima.
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Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 August 2023 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Rao from Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land manga series (and new theatrical film):
Rao
A Human SheriffRao, who takes responsibility for everything, is a pretty cool guy!! I especially liked the additional scenes penned by Toriyama-sensei that were not in the original comic!
If you manage to experience the movie in 4DX or MX4D, the tank scenes make you feel like you’re riding an actual tank! And in MX4D, it looks like you can smell the cactus and Thief’s hairspray!
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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An exclusive report from Bunshun Online reveals that Akio Iyoku — editor-in-chief of V-Jump as well as head of the “Dragon Ball Room,” an interdepartmental collaborative group shaping the ongoing production of the Dragon Ball franchise — is leaving Shueisha in favor of running his own company, which he created back in May of this year.
“ドラゴンボール3兆円利権”をめぐり集英社の敏腕編集者が部下2人と電撃独立！ 新会社の名前は「カプセルコーポレーション・トーキョー」 鳥山明氏（68）は取材に対し……#文春オンラインhttps://t.co/3qQgGowe1m
— 文春オンライン (@bunshun_online) August 31, 2023
Key highlights from the article include (as previously covered in detail by Kanzenshuu Admin Emeritus “Herms” on Twitter):
- Iyoku is leaving Shueisha as of this month (August 2023)
- The new company name of “Capsule Corporation Tokyo” — clearly taking the name “Capsule Corporation” form the world of Dragon Ball itself — was decided upon by Iyoku himself
- Iyoku has planned this move for some time, having set up the new company back in May
- The new company’s stated goal is to manage intellectual property content creation and distribution
- Iyoku intends to recruit two of his prior subordinates — a man and a woman — to his new company
- Iyoku declined to comment to Bunshun Online
- Akira Toriyama largely declined to comment to Bunshun Online, instead referring them back over to Shueisha
- Kazuhiko Torishima likewise largely declined to comment and referred Bunshun Online back over to Shueisha
- Shueisha initially declined to comment to Bunshun Online, though later acknowledged by phone that Iyoku was indeed leaving the company
- According to anonymous sources within Shueisha, Iyoku’s attitude and possessiveness over the Dragon Ball franchise had been seen as problematic, and there had been talk at least as of June 2022 about moving him to a non-Dragon Ball-related position, which he refused
- Also according to an anonymous source within Shueisha, Iyoku intends for his new company to handle non-manga-serialization production and management for the Dragon Ball franchise (such as video games), and negotiations as to how that arrangement would work are in process with Shueisha remaining the ultimate rights-holder of the franchise
Iyoku is a prominent and visible figure in the world of Dragon Ball, regularly appearing at conventions and press events, as well as adopting the mascot moniker “King Iyoku” for his V-Jump-related publications and appearances.
Over on Twitter, we’ve shared a bit of a guided tour listing various examples of editorial influence and the collaborative shaping of Dragon Ball Super, inclusive of the television series, movies, and manga:
A few Dragon Ball Super production examples to remember alongside the Akio Iyoku discourse today, many (most? all?) of which we have seen wildly misunderstood and misrepresented in various conversations: (#/?!) https://t.co/hn9AxlGgyp
— Kanzenshuu (@kanzenshuu) August 31, 2023
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Show Description Episode #0505! Mike, Ken, and Randy return once again to “Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot” to review its fifth paid downloadable content pack, this time covering the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai. Switching things up with ground-based battles and a rigid tournament structure, how does it fare compared to previous DLC releases, and what else might ...
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The “Rumor Guide” has been a consistent favorite of staff and visitors alike here at Kanzenshuu — the entries are a blast to put together, and they each act as an authoritative, one-stop-shop with verified original research and (generally!) definitive answers. As part of the guide’s latest update, two new entries have been added… including ...
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-sixth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue ...
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Though the recent film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero hit DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD all at once upon release in Japan, the American release from Crunchyroll initially only featured DVD and Blu-ray formats. While a 4K Ultra HD has been promised for some time — initially (and strangely) only ever properly hinted at ...
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Bandai Namco Holdings has posted a ¥21.786 billion profit for the first quarter of fiscal year of 2024, down from a ¥37.019 billion profit this same timeframe last year. Dragon Ball came in as the company’s second-best-performing franchise for the quarter, pulling in ¥28.7 billion (behind the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise at ¥36.9 billion). This ...
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Hitting today across all other major gaming platforms, the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai-focused paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has been delayed on PC: The release date for DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT's DLC5, the "23rd World Tournament", for STEAM® has been delayed. For more information, please visit: https://t.co/Dw94oi5LLg #BandaiNamco #DBZK pic.twitter.com/z0Fl7x36ud — Bandai ...
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First teased back in January alongside the game’s current-generation console update, Bandai Namco has announced that the paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot featuring the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai will release worldwide on 17 August 2023. The downloadable content pack’s title in Japanese is “Troubles at the Tenka’ichi Budōkai” (波乱の天下一武道会 Haran no Tenka’ichi ...
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Show Description Episode #0504! Mike and Ken journey through the biggest hoaxes in modern Dragon Ball history. From fanart that escaped the clutches of its original artists, to purposeful (and sometimes long-term) bits of misinformation, we’ve seen it all! How well do some of these hoaxes hold up, and what will it take in the ...
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Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) 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 July 2023 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Beelzebub from Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land manga series (and upcoming ...
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-fifth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue ...
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A black-and-white image is often passed around by fans as proof that Goku uses a hundred-fold version of the Kaiō-Ken against Slug in Dragon Ball Z movie 4: Goku does not actually say the “hundred-times” part (百倍 hyaku-bai) aloud in the film, however, so where does this image come from and what does it all ...
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Bandai Namco has released a new promotional video for the — as of yet still undated — upcoming paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot featuring the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai: The downloadable content pack’s title in Japanese is “Troubles at the Tenka’ichi Budōkai” (波乱の天下一武道会 Haran no Tenka’ichi Budōkai); as with the previous Bardock ...
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This week’s August 2023 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine sees a certain stalwart wrap up another story arc, while also announcing the addition of a new “full color” classic Akira Toriyama manga to its lineup. The Dragon Ball GT anime comic — comprised of screen shots from the 1996-1997 television series displayed in manga ...
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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 ...
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A sketch from original Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama within the 2005 Dragon Ball GT “Dragon Box” DVD set in Japan is often cited as “proof” that Toriyama himself was the one who designed the Super Saiyan 4 transformation… which is not true (and is even outright explained in the accompanying comment!). So who actually ...
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Alongside the Sand Land theatrical debut this August in Japan, a special “Akira Toriyama Hyper Assortment” — a special pack of bonus items — will be distributed to attendees, including a special A5-sized art board with an illustration by Toriyama, as well as a Beelzebub card for the arcade game Super Dragon Ball Heroes: The ...
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Show Description Episode #0503! We start a brand new interview series talking with the staff members of Kanzenshuu itself! Julian is up first, so strap in for a trip back to 2002 as we prep the Daizenshuu EX relaunch and start honing those translation skills. We apparently recorded this episode five years ago, but it ...
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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 June 2023 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Zahha: Zahha A very mysterious magic swordsman. Congratulations to Dragon Ball Legends ...
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Three volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release 04 August 2023 in Japan, accompanied by a new kanzenban release of Sand Land, Akira Toriyama’s 14-chapter manga series from 2000: Dragon Ball Super — Volume 21 The twenty-first collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will ...
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-fourth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue ...
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Show Description Episode #0502! Following up on last episode’s ten-year retrospective for the film version of “Battle of Gods”: Mike, Heath, and Ken re-review the initial four chapters of the “Dragon Ball Super” manga adapting the “Battle of Gods” arc… as well as the “Dragon Ball SD” manga adaptation by Naho Ooishi… as well as ...
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero hitting theaters in Japan! To mark this occasion, the latest addition to our “Translations” archive is the comment from musical composer Naoki Satō included with the film’s soundtrack release: When I got approached to do the soundtrack for this movie, first I was ...
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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 ...
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Show DescriptionEpisode #0501! Mike, Ajay, and Tyson look back at the 2013 theatrical film “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” with (somehow!) both a retrospective critical eye and a fresh perspective. Ten years removed and with multiple adaptations behind us, how does the original film version of the story hold up? What precedents did it set for the next decade, and what has the rest of the franchise still failed to recapture in all that time?
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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 May 2023 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Shallot:
Shallot
A very mysterious Saiyan that came from a bygone era. Congratulations to Dragon Ball Legends on its 5th anniversary!
Shallot was designed by Akira Toriyama for inclusion in the 2018 mobile video game Dragon Ball Legends:
It is worth noting that the exact spelling of the name シャロット (sharotto) had previously been used for an original female Saiyan character in the 2016 Nintendo 3DS video game Dragon Ball Fusions, pre-dating this Dragon Ball Legends character. In Dragon Ball Fusion‘s English localization, the name spelling of シャロット was adapted as “Shalot” (pre-emptively avoiding a direct name duplication in English… but not in Japanese!):
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-third chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue material. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s July 2023 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ ninety-third chapter hitting today in the magazine’s July 2023 issue.
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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s eighteenth collected volume will be released this June.
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 this past September.
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Bandai Namco Holdings has posted a ¥90.345 billion profit for the full fiscal year of 2023, down slightly from a ¥92.752 billion profit last year.
Dragon Ball came in as the company’s best-performing franchise for the year, pulling in ¥144.5 billion, up from last year’s ¥127.6 billion and ahead of the projected ¥133.5 billion. The company is projecting a decrease to ¥130 billion for fiscal year 2024.
In terms of general toys and hobby merchandise (non-video games) for Japan, the franchise also jumped from ¥19.7 billion last fiscal year to ¥22.5 billion this year. The company is projecting a drop to ¥20 billion for fiscal year 2024.
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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 twenty-one entries, this month’s June 2023 issue brings us Shun Saeki (Food Wars) and their take on the series’ 10th volume cover:
Shun Saeki commented:
It’s the ultimate honor to be associated with such a legendary series. The cover of this volume has a very peculiar design, and after pondering about how to recreate it, I decided on a setting where Goku and Bulma come to look for a Dragon Ball on some ruins that just so happened to have objects shaped like the patterns from the original cover, but now I’m wondering if it was maybe a bit forced. Anyway, I gladly drew it and had a lot of fun doing it! Thank you so very much.
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 in 2021 (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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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 April-ish/May 2023 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Tullece:
Tullece
I wonder how he survived the destruction of Planet Vegeta…? I hope that can get cleared up someday.
Tullece debuted as the main antagonist in the third Dragon Ball Z film back in 1990. He reappeared as a “Ghost Warrior” in the 1993-1994 multimedia blitz Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, and has been a regular video game inclusion in the post-serialization era.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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A new wiki preview page is available… and it’s one we’re requesting your early support and community research on!
Preview the “Season” wiki pageBeyond all of the common misinformation around “seasons” for the North American broadcast (largely due to FUNimation’s later home video releases which ignored their previously-established cable broadcast “season” delineations), lots of the standard episode guides you see out there online are just flat out wrong.
Perhaps you’ve read one of the latest features on our site — “The Dragon Ball Z American Debut Date” — which covers the fact that local syndication affiliates played the same episode on different dates, meaning there is no real single “debut” date for FUNimation’s English dub of Dragon Ball Z in September 1996.
You would think that once things moved to the Toonami block on Cartoon Network (a single cable network channel), having verifiable/confirmed debut dates would be easier, but that’s not true! Plans changed at the last minute all the time, leading to shifted debut dates. Of particular note, the events of September 11th in 2001 obviously impacted broadcast plans across the board. In this case, Mobile Suit Gundam was removed from its block and replaced with an extra episode of Dragon Ball, which sped up its intended broadcast.
The 2003 timeframe is also notable for seeing the initial wrap-up for both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z on Toonami. This was directly before the current install of our own forum in 2004, which in turn means we’re missing lots of key contemporary confirmations due to other notable fansites and forums of the day long since being lost to time.
It’s important to recognize we don’t know what we don’t know. This is where you come in! Maybe YOU are aware of other ancient, still-online little forums or sites we somehow overlooked that can provide contemporary confirmations for some of these dates.
With all of the aforementioned information in mind, and checking out what we already have established and cited on the “Season” wiki preview page, would love help finding contemporary confirmations (not hearsay/uncited/undated lists!) for:
- Dragon Ball episode 28 on Toonami
- Dragon Ball episode 153 on Toonami
- Dragon Ball Z edited dub episode 276 (JP 291) on Toonami
Enjoy the additional wiki preview, please share this article and/or our tweet thread far and wide across your various fandom circles, and get in touch with us with any confirmations you may see out there!
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-second chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue material. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s June 2023 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ ninety-second chapter hitting today in the magazine’s June 2023 issue.
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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s eighteenth collected volume will be released this June.
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 this past September.
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Following up on the first, second, third, and fourth interviews in this series, our latest translation addition continues with material from 2016’s 30th anniversary Super History Book. Here in the fifth in a five-part series of video game-related interviews, we travel back to somewhat recent history with Dragon Ball Xenoverse producer Masayuki Hirano.
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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 twenty entries, this month’s May 2023 issue brings us Boichi (Dr. Stone, etc.) and their take on the series’ 26th volume cover:
Boichi commented:
It’s an absolute honor to be able to draw a Dragon Ball cover. It’s also exhausting.
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 in 2021 (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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Show DescriptionEpisode #0500! We are celebrating five hundred podcast episodes! Join us for a journey from the first episode back in 2005 through today’s shenanigans. All the best in-jokes, all the best discussions… and a lot more. Also: we occasionally talk about Dragon Ball.
How to ListenOur podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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Contest! Giveaway! Autographs!We are giving away a copy of Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One on DVD signed by Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Yuko Minaguchi, and more! This contest is open through the end of April, so start exploring all of the ways you can check out Kanzenshuu‘s resources here and on other various platforms, and get those entries in!
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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 March 2023 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Garlic Jr.:
Garlic Jr.
A character from the movies who later made the jump to the TV anime. I’d like to try drawing his transformed state sometime, too!
Garlic Jr. debuted in the first Dragon Ball Z film back in 1991 (a film that doesn’t have a title beyond just “Dragon Ball Z”…!), and appeared as the main antagonist again in a “filler arc” exclusive to the Dragon Ball Z television series.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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The official website for the forthcoming Sand Land animation project updated today with a short question-and-answer session with original creator Akira Toriyama, alongisde confirmation of the project being a theatrical film set for release in Japan 18 August 2023 with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima.
When and how was Sand Land born?
Dragon Ball had ended, and I had tried my hand at a few different short series and one-shots, so I figured I’d draw a work with my current self on full display, intending it to be my last. Thinking back on it now, even with it being limited to a single volume’s worth of material, it was quite a feat to have drawn all that myself, without an assistant, in a weekly series. I’m amazed at it myself.(Knowing that COWA! is number one,) are there any parts of Sand Land that you can definitively say are your favorite work?
When I draw comics myself, the contents tend to be rather plain, lightweight fluff, which doesn’t lend itself to finding an audience. The truth is that even here, I held back on the fluff, and worked hard to make it a proper, serious story. Reasonably speaking, my favorite comic should be my most recent one. Thinking back on it now, though, I do feel that, at least in terms of the quality of the art and the vitality of it, the stuff I was drawing around the time of Sand Land was incredible.Are there any unique charms or characteristics of this work that only you yourself would know, Toriyama-sensei?
For Sand Land, I scanned the inked paper manuscripts into my computer, then using software, I did the blacking and applied tone I made myself to finish it up. I think probably got almost no sleep…. After I’d finished drawing the whole thing, I lost the wooden penholder I had been using ever since before my professional debut. That penholder was one I had whittled down here and there with a knife and sandpaper, and which had worn in perfectly to the shape of my hand through years of use. I bought a new one and tried whittling it down here and there as before, but it just didn’t feel quite right. Since then, I’ve been using it as an excuse for why I hardly ever draw comics anymore. (laughs)How do you feel about this work being evaluated as one with your “Toriyama-sensei-ness” packed into the characters, machines, world, and story?
Certainly, that might be the case. I feel that I really ought to have given more thought to the readers, but instead, I let my own preferences take center stage. Maybe I’m not cut out to be a professional.What do you think about its being made into a movie after 23 years?
To me, anyone who tells me that this is fun is truly a god-tier fan who really “gets” me, I suppose is how I feel.How did you feel when you saw the current in-progress visuals?
The video I saw still had a lot of unfinished bits, but even then I could see well enough that the quality was extraordinarily high. I never dared to think it would ever be animated, so for it to have this kind of quality, it’s already a dream come true.
Toriyama’s comments are in line with his past reflections on the series — for new obi (wraparounds) produced in 2014 for manga reprints, Toriyama stated of Sand Land:
This is a man’s comic. Even reading it now, I admire how hard I worked on it. Next to COWA!, this is my favorite.
Following Dragon Ball‘s completion, Toriyama produced various one-shots and short works for Shueisha including Alien Peke and Tokimecha in 1996, and Bubul of Demon Village in 1997. Series with longer runs — serializations that would ultimately comprise a single tankōbon — were also produced, including COWA! in 1997, Kajika in 1998, and Sand Land in 2000.
Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year.
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Episode #0499! Mike shares his Official Top Ten Dragon Ball Video Games with Kirran! With decades worth of bangers behind us and a widely-anticipated new game on the horizon, it seemed like the perfect time to purposefully get folks yelling back at their transistor radio speakers about us “forgetting” certain games! No, we didn’t forget! We just like different things!
REFERENCED SITES:
- TWITTER: Mike Game List Tweet #1
- TWITTER: Mike Game List Tweet #1
- REVIEW: “Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans”
- REVIEW: “Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden”
- REVIEW: “Dragon Ball Fusions”
- PRESS ARCHIVE: EGM #65 “Super Butoden 3” Coverage
- TWITTER: Kirran
- TWITTER: Mike
- TWITCH: Mike
- PATREON: Kanzenshuu
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninety-first chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”, now adapting the contents of the recent theatrical film following three chapters worth of original prologue material. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its print serialization in Japan.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ ninety-first chapter hitting today in the magazine’s May 2023 issue.
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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s eighteenth collected volume will be released this June.
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 this past September.
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Owners of 1995’s first Daizenshuu (“Complete Illustrations”) or perhaps 2013’s Dragon Ball Chōgashū: Super Art Collection may have come across an illustration of Goku riding a dragon without giving it much thought; after all, Goku rides lots of dragons in these illustrations.
Viz’s English translation of the first Daizenshuu from 2008 notes this illustration as coming from a “Never Ending Special” in Weekly Jump No. 10 (no year given, but noted as 1985 earlier in the book), describing it as: “Feature for a story called ‘Dragons Are Widely Popular in Movies and Comics!'”
Viz’s English translation of the Chōgashū — released in 2019 under the title “Dragon Ball: A Visual History” — updates this description to read: “Neverending Story Special: For the Neverending Story special collection, this piece came with the comment, ‘Dragons are super popular in both movies and manga now!'”
Older Dragon Ball fans may think first to the “Never Ending Story” two-disc soundtrack collection from 1996, but this source pre-dates that by many years and has nothing to do with music!
The illustration in question actually comes from the 1985 No. 10 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, originally released in Japan 18 February 1985 featuring chapter 10 of the Dragon Ball manga.
Immediately upon opening the issue, readers are greeted with a giant, five-page feature about the film The NeverEnding Story with splash text proclaiming: “From films to manga, dragons are taking the stage!” and “A Movie to Surpass E.T.: The NeverEnding Story: A Grand Adventure in a Mysterious World!”
Indeed, Toriyama’s illustration of Goku riding a dragon graces the top of the feature’s first page… alongside, lower on the page, a self-portrait (also present in the aforementioned art books) and comment from Toriyama himself!
I’m impressed at how they translated such a difficult-seeming story to screen. It’s a little bit leisurely, but I think that’s perfect for fantasy. I really enjoyed the film!
The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 film (based on a 1979 novel) about a boy who finds a magical book which tells the tale of a young warrior given the task of stopping “the Nothing” from taking over and destroying the world of Fantasia. The story and film were part of a larger multimedia craze of the day surrounding dragons and dinosaurs, and left a lasting impact in popular culture.
This comment has been archived in our “Translations” section.
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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 nineteen entries, this month’s April 2023 issue brings us Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland) and their take on the series’ 22nd volume cover:
Demizu commented:
I really liked Dende and Cargo, so I asked if I could draw the cover of volume 22! Since the events surrounding them turn out quite tragic in the main story, I drew them in a still peaceful Namek, happily going out for a ride. I’ve always wished I could draw machines as skillfully as Toriyama-sensei, something I still think nowadays (and I’m sure I will continue to do!). Congratulations on Dragon Ball‘s 40th anniversary!
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 in 2021 (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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In conjunction with the “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour” event yesterday, Bandai Namco and their partners revealed that a new entry in the Sparking! series of Dragon Ball video games is currently in development:
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「ドラゴンボール Sparking！」シリーズ
最新作情報が解禁！
＼映像はコチラから↓#ドラゴンボール #バトルアワー pic.twitter.com/VMMPWWeSUr
— ドラゴンボールゲームスバトルアワー2023公式 (@db_eventpj_jp) March 5, 2023
No additional information — including that of a specific developer (beyond the publishing duties of Bandai Namco), a formal “number” or title for the game, etc. — were made available alongside this initial announcement.
The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan / Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle.
Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.
In the 30th Anniversary: Dragon Ball Chōshishū –Super History Book– released in 2016, Sparking! series producer Ryō Mito reminisced about development on the series and in particular METEOR‘s reputation as not just a “God-tier game” but “a Dai Kaiōshin-tier game.”
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Producer Tomoko Hiroki and the teams at Arc System Works and Bandai Namco have announced a slew of updates for Dragon Ball FighterZ coming this year:
- Dragon Ball FighterZ will make its fourth in-person appearance at Evolution Championship Series (“Evo”) this August in Las Vegas.
- During the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour 2022-23 Finals this week, it was announced that a forthcoming beta on Steam will be made available to test the previously-announced rollback netcode coming to the game for its current-generation consoles and PC release. Plans are currently set for “around spring”.
- Also announced during the World Tour finals, Dragon Ball FighterZ will receive another forthcoming patch to further balance the game.
The 3-on-3, “2.5D” fighting game is developed by Arc System Works and is currently available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (via Steam). A first “FighterZ Pass” with eight additional playable characters is available for $29.99, a “FighterZ Pass 2” available for $24.99 adding another six, and “FighterZ Pass 3” with an additional five for $19.99. Said additional paid characters are also all available piecemeal at $4.99 each.
Dragon Ball FighterZ was originally released 26 January 2018 in North America and Europe, and 01 February 2018 in Japan, across the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Alongside its Japanese release, Bandai Namco announced that they had shipped two million copies of the game, making it the fastest-shipping game in the franchise’s history. The game also shipped on the Nintendo Switch back in September 2018.
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A brand-new “Serialization” page has launched within our extensive “Manga Guide,” with the goal of providing an evergreen, up-to-date page detailing all current Dragon Ball manga series in Japan.
As of the new page’s launch, these series presently include (in order of original serialization start):
- Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic
- Dragon Ball Super by Toyotarō
- Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! by Yūji Kasai
- Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! by Yoshitaka Nagayama
The guide also covers Dragon Ball SD by Naho Ooishi, which originally began serialization within the pages of Saikyo Jump in 2010 before moving to a video comic series back in 2021.
Visit the New “Serialization” Guide PageThe new page complements our existing “Weekly Shōnen Jump Serialization” page, which details every issue that the original Dragon Ball series was first published in.
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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 February 2023 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Coola:
COOLA (Final Form)
He has a form beyond what his younger brother Freeza had, so I remember being completely astonished at the time. He’s a really cool character and I really like him.
Coola debuted in the fifth Dragon Ball Z film back in 1991 (The Incredible Strongest vs Strongest), and appeared as the main antagonist again in the sixth film the following year. Coola went on to receive minor and supporting roles across ancillary productions like Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, and remains a fairly standard inclusion in video games.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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In conjunction with this week’s April 2023 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, Bandai Namco has further promoted the upcoming paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot featuring the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai:
The downloadable content pack’s title in Japanese is “Troubles at the Tenka’ichi Budōkai” (波乱の天下一武道会 Haran no Tenka’ichi Budōkai); as with the previous Bardock DLC, its title is a direct nod to a prior work’s title, in this case being the exact same title as Dragon Ball manga chapter 167, itself later adapted as the title of Dragon Ball television series episode 134.
The pack’s official English localized title will be “Chaos at the World Tournament“.
Taking place immediately before what the television series designated as the “Z” break (in what is otherwise simply “Dragon Ball” beginning to end in its original comic form), the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai sees a freshly-grown Son Goku at his third tournament appearance taking on the reincarnated/reborn-but-also-offspring (it’s complicated…) of the original Demon King Piccolo.
Adapting the 1990 Bardock television special, the first entry in the second wave of DLC packs for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot launched last month alongside new, native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the full game. The three entries in this second “season pass” are all “story arcs” rather than “story episodes”; in the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story.
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.
Reviews of the base game, Trunks DLC, and Bardock DLC can be found on episodes #0481, #0490, and #0497, respectively, of our podcast.
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Episode #0498! Mike and Heath discuss some of the biggest (non-strength-related!) rumors and misunderstandings in general Dragon Ball fandom. From the classic “ending with Freeza” to recent confusion over the authorship of the Dragon Ball Super manga, we bring the receipts!
REFERENCED SITES:
- GUIDE: Intended Endings
- RUMOR GUIDE: The Sonny Strait & Terry Klassen Prank Call
- PRESS ARCHIVE: Mangazine – “Dragon Ball License Shifts to FUNimation”
- FEATURE: A Different Missing Link
- GUIDE: Databook Battle Powers
- TWEET: GT Research Tease
- TWITTER: Mike
- TWITTER: Heath
- TWITCH: Mike
- PATREON: Kanzenshuu
Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, SoundCloud, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninetieth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its print serialization in Japan.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ ninetieth chapter hitting today in the magazine’s April 2023 issue.
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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s eighteenth collected volume will be released this June.
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 this past September.
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Viz’s nineteenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga will be released 05 September 2023, covering chapters 81-84 (a la its Japanese counterpart):
Granolah’s fierce assault seems to have Gas on the ropes until the youngest Heeters member’s inner nature is unleashed, leading to an all-out assault like nothing any of our heroes have ever encountered before! But perhaps the key to defeating Gas has something to do with memories of Bardock, Goku’s long-deceased father?!
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ ninetieth chapter coming next week in the magazine’s April 2023 issue.
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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017.
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 this past September.
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Bandai Namco Holdings has posted a ¥84.444 billion (approximately $636 million) profit for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2023, compared to a ¥61.703 billion profit at this same point last year.
Dragon Ball remains the company’s best-performing franchise, pulling in ¥102.2 billion these first three quarters of the fiscal year (a jump from ¥91.3 billion at this point last year), and the company is projecting a full fiscal year total of ¥139 billion, up from last full fiscal year’s ¥127.6 billion.
In terms of general toys and hobby merchandise (non-video games), the franchise grew from ¥16 billion the first three quarters last year to ¥17.9 billion the same period this year, with a projected full year jump from ¥19.7 billion last year to ¥22 billion this year.
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 part of the magazine.
Following the previous eighteen entries, this month’s March 2023 issue brings us Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama) and their take on the series’ 16th volume cover:
Hideaki Sorachi commented:
When I was a child, I loved the cover to volume 16, but when I tried to copy it, it never came out well, so I asked my father to draw it for me on a big sheet of drawing paper and I hung it in my bedroom as a poster for the longest time.
Time has passed and Dragon Ball is now nearing its 40th anniversary. That brat was such a lousy artist and managed to get some drawing skills, but I still think I’m not quite at the level of that worn-down, yellowed-out poster.
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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Episode #0497! Mike, Ken, and Randy reconvene once again to review the “Bardock: Alone Against Fate” DLC pack for “Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot”! How does the second season pass kick things off this time around, and how does it compare to content from the first season pass?
REFERENCED SITES:
- PODCAST ARCHIVE: Bardock TV Special Review
- PODCAST ARCHIVE: Kakarot Base Game Review
- PODCAST ARCHIVE: Kakarot Trunks DLC Review
- PODCAST ARCHIVE: The Story of Solid State Scouter
- TWITTER: Mike
- TWITTER: Ken
- TWITTER: Randy
- THAT OTHER SHOW RANDY DOES: We Gotta Podcast
- TWITCH: Mike
- PATREON: Kanzenshuu
Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, SoundCloud, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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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 January 2023 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Hire Dragon:
Hire Dragon
This is how I imagine it all grown up. I hope it’s still living happily on Mount Pao-tzu.
Hire Dragon debuted in the third Dragon Ball Z film back in 1990 (A Super Decisive Battle for Earth), and subsequently appeared in both the next two films as well as the Garlic Jr. “filler arc” of the Dragon Ball Z television series.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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The ninth collected volume of Dragon Ball SD is on its way from Shueisha, with a catalog entry noting an 03 March 2023 release date, clocking in at 192 pages and running at ¥748 + tax.
The release will mark just under a year since the eighth collected volume. The ninth collected volume should pick up from Piccolo’s battle with Freeza in Dragon Ball SD chapter 79.
Dragon Ball SD was a stalwart of Saikyō Jump dating back to its original debut issue, adapting events from the original story in humorous new ways with “chibi” or “super deformed” (the titular “SD”) styled characters. After the original four quarterly issues of the magazine and SD covering four distinct time periods, the magazine shifted to a monthly release and SD reverted back to the proper beginning of the series with a continuous storyline. In 2016, the series skipped ahead from the end of the 22nd Tenka’ichi Budōkai to the Saiyan arc. In conjunction with Saikyō Jump‘s big format refresh in 2021, Dragon Ball SD was moved out of the magazine to a digital-only series on the company’s official YouTube channel; the series briefly returned to print in the August 2022 issue for a special chapter promoting the theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
Dragon Ball SD is not available in English, though it does currently see a release in certain territories such as Germany and France.
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Shueisha and online retailers have listed the twentieth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō as releasing 03 March 2023 in Japan for ¥528 + tax.
Following most previous volumes, the upcoming 20th volume should be set to include four Dragon Ball Super manga chapters, spanning chapter 85-88 — this would complete the collection of the “Granolla the Survivor arc” and head one chapter into the new/ongoing “Super Hero arc”, the first chapter of which was serialized last month. The volume is listed as spanning 208 pages, up slightly over the usual 192 pages, no doubt due to the extended page count of the aforementioned first “Super Hero arc” chapter.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ eighty-ninth chapter coming today in the magazine’s March 2023 issue. 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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017; the company’s eighteenth collected volume is due out in June 2023.
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 this past September.
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Following up on its return to serialization last month, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s eighty-ninth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s March 2023 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ eighty-ninth chapter coming today in the magazine’s March 2023 issue. 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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017; the company’s eighteenth collected volume is due out in June 2023.
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 this past September.
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Episode #0496! Mike and Ken look ahead to the rest of 2023 for the Dragon Ball franchise. What do we know is on the horizon, and how do we think several of the ongoing productions we DO know about will shake out? Tune in for our thoughts, as well as our reactions to YOUR thoughts!
REFERENCED SITES:
- TWITTER: Ken
- TWITTER: Mike
- TWITCH: Mike
- PATREON: Kanzenshuu
Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, SoundCloud, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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The “Launch Trailer” for this week’s “Bardock: Alone Against Fate” downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot concludes with a brief tease at future content: specifically that of the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai.
Taking place immediately before what the television series designated as the “Z” break (in what is otherwise simply “Dragon Ball” beginning to end in its original comic form), the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai sees a freshly-grown Son Goku at his third tournament appearance taking on the reincarnated/reborn-but-also-offspring (it’s complicated…) of the original Demon King Piccolo.
The first entry in the second wave of DLC packs for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot launches this week alongside new, native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the full game. The upcoming three entries in this second “season pass” are all “story arcs” rather than “story episodes”; in the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story.
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.
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 part of the magazine.
Following the previous seventeen entries, this month’s February 2023 issue brings us Kentarō Yabuki (Black Cat, To Love Ru) and their take on the series’ 31st volume cover:
Yabuki commented:
I first got into comics by looking at Dragon Ball, studying how to split pages into panels and having fun drawing the adventures of Goku and the gang on my notebook when I was in elementary school. Who would’ve thought that I would be able to enjoy a new comic with Goku’s adventures even in my forties?… And to top it off, that I would be allowed to contribute a drawing of the Artificial Humans that I like so much to this project? I really want to go back and tell all of this to my younger self. Toriyama-sensei, congratulations on Dragon Ball‘s 40th anniversary!
Yabuki has a fascinating and extensive history with Dragon Ball, extending all the way back to 1995 where he won the “Cool Prize” award for his fan fusion contest submission of “Gohanks”… when he was fifteen years old!
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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Following up on the first, second, and third interviews in this series, our latest translation addition continues with material from 2016’s 30th anniversary Super History Book. Here in the fourth in a five-part series of video game-related interviews, we travel back in time to the heyday of the PlayStation 2 era with producer Ryō Mito discussing the Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! game series, known internationally under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” series title.
In this interview, Mito reminisces about starting a new series with a large character roster, as well as the fan reaction of it being a “God-tier game” by the time they reached METEOR, the third game in the series.
Read the Full TranslationStay tuned in the coming weeks as we make our way fully through this five-part interview series!
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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 December 2022 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Tenshinhan using the Shiyō-ken:
Tenshinhan
Using Shiyō-ken
Although he doesn’t get much chance to shine these days, I want to see Tenshinhan get to do his part using techniques like this.
This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.
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Returning from a four month hiatus, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s eighty-eighth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, kicking off the brand-new “Super Hero arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s February 2023 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.
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 runs in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ eighty-eighth chapter coming today in the magazine’s February 2023 issue. 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 has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017; the company’s eighteenth collected volume is due out in June 2023.
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 this past September.
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We are currently soliciting applications for new wiki contributors!
You may already know that Kanzenshuu provides extensive, comprehensive information about the Dragon Ball franchise on our main website through our news coverage, translation work, and original guides. What you may or may not know is that we have been quietly working on our own wiki for a number of years, as well!
Our vision for the Kanzenshuu wiki is to supplement the information already available on our website, and to provide an outlet for getting into the real minutia of information and citations… above and beyond the “other wikis” out there, in line with the standard Kanzenshuu research process, workflow, and vision.
There is a very small team currently working on this wiki, and we have reached a point where we are ready to search outside of our own existing friend group to see who else might be out there and interested in lending a helping hand!
Before responding, please be sure to fully read the application form, including the extensive acknowledgements required at the end. This is not a paid position: this is an old-school, DIY, doing-it-for-the-love-of-it kind of internet project. We can’t wait to see what other like-minded fans are out there that we aren’t already friends with!
We will collect responses for a period of time, and anticipate reaching back out to people starting some time in January 2023. Don’t call us; we’ll call you!
(One final note/reminder: this application is not for someone to simply view the in-progress wiki; this is an application to truly get involved and make substantial contributions.)
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The previously announced PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S editions of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot are set for a 12 January 2023 launch in Japan and 13 January 2023 international launch. The likewise previously announced first entry in a second “season pass” of downloadable content will launch alongside the new editions on all available platforms (including the original PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, as well as the Nintendo Switch port) the same day.
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.
The English edition of the latest trailer specifies that the upcoming three entries in the second “season pass” are all “story arcs” rather than “story episodes”; in the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story.
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.
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Episode #0495! Mike and Ken return once last time to the “Granolla the Survivor” arc of the “Dragon Ball Super” manga… this time to respond to YOUR thoughts on the arc! What did you all think of the plot twists and turns, the flashback material, the transformations, and more?
REFERENCED SITES:
- TRANSLATION: 40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” #17: Akira Amano
- TRANSLATION: 30th Anniversary Super History Book Video Games Selection – Pick Up! 01
- TRANSLATION: 30th Anniversary Super History Book Video Games Selection – Pick Up! 02
- TRANSLATION: 30th Anniversary Super History Book Video Games Selection – Pick Up! 03
- NEWS: Dragon Ball Super Manga to Resume Serialization in December 2022 with New Super Hero Arc
- TWITTER: Ken
- TWITTER: Mike
- TWITCH: Mike
- PATREON: Kanzenshuu
Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, SoundCloud, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 part of the magazine.
Following the previous sixteen entries, this month’s January 2023 issue brings us Akira Amano (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!) and their take on the series’ 4th volume cover:
Amano commented:
Hello, Akira Amano speaking. More than an unforgettable part of my childhood, Dragon Ball is something I like so much it’s seeped into my very being! By being granted this opportunity to draw Goku, I confirmed once again that I really do love this character a lot. Thank you so much!
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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SHOW DESCRIPTION: Episode #0494! Mike brings on Ken and Ian to review the latest arc of the “Dragon Ball Super” manga, Granolla the Survivor! How does the second manga-exclusive arc stack up against not only the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc with Moro, but the rest of the series as a whole? Where do we go ...
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In conjunction with today’s (21 November 2022) January 2023 issue of V-Jump magazine, Shueisha has announced that the Dragon Ball Super manga — which has been on hiatus since the publication of its 87th chapter back in August — will resume next month in the magazine’s February 2023 issue (set for release 21 December 2022) ...
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Following up on the first and second interviews in this series, our latest translation addition continues with material from 2016’s 30th anniversary Super History Book. Here in the third in a five-part series of video game-related interviews, we travel back in time to the beginning of the PlayStation 2 era with producer Daisuke Uchiyama discussing ...
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Combine some confusing (and even contradictory) early promotional wording from two different magazines, toss in a few less-than-ideal translation choices, add a dash of forgetfulness with regard to original manga statements, and — voilà — we wind up with a delightful bit of confusion as to when the Dragon Ball Super series actually begins. Does ...
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Following up on the first interview in this series, our latest translation addition continues with material from 2016’s 30th anniversary Super History Book. Here in the second in a five-part series of video game-related interviews, we travel back in time to the Super Butōden era with producer Toshihiro Suzuki (perhaps better known as his mascot-esque ...
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Following up on our partial translation of the Nintendo Mini Famicom Jump Edition guide book interview with Kazuhiko Torishima (which lays the groundwork for what’s to come!), we are finally kicking off an ongoing series of new translation work from 2016’s 30th anniversary Super History Book. It all begins here with the first in a ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 ...
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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 ...
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Bandai Namco has announced two forthcoming paid downloadable content packs for Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 based on the new theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. The first pack will include Gamma No. 2, with the trailer heavily indicating that Gamma No. 1 will likewise make the cut. Of the two packs, the first is ...
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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 catch-up July and August 2022 double-entry, Toyotarō has contributed drawings of the younger Turtle Hermit and Crane Hermit, ...
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Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s eighty-seventh chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, wrapping up the brand-new “Granolla the Survivor arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues ...
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Following some initial datamining and an official tease from Epic Games themselves, Fornite — the survival / battle royale / sandbox / etc. video game and cultural phenomenon — has launched an extensive collaboration with the Dragon Ball franchise, which includes numerous character and item skins, unique locations, and more. The collaboration is extensive, including ...
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The new 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 ...
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