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Dragon
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| The Dragon Ball manga
was published in Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan from 1984 until 1995. It's the most popular
manga magazine in Japan, selling 5 millions issues each week. A good reason for this high
popularity is Dragon Ball, as it seems that the sales of Shonen Jump dropped a bit since
the end of DB! (There has been a lot of other succesful series in Jump of course, like
Dr.Slump, Saint Seiya, Hokuto no Ken, Yuu Yuu Hakusho...etc...) The manga began in
November 1984 and finished almost 11 years later, in May 1995 after 519 chapters and 1
special chapter (Trunks The Story)! PHEW! |
 The series was also published in book form -
there are 42 Dragon Ball books. The Dragon Ball series spawned 2 animated series faithful
to the manga and one original. The first TV serie is "Dragon Ball" is based on
the first 17 books (that is book 1 to 16, and the 2 first chapters of book 17) - the story
of young Goku until the end of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai and the battle against Piccolo.
Since the focus of the series changed from "comedy-adventure with action" to
"action-adventure with comedy", the TV serie changed name and became
"Dragon Ball Z". This second serie is based on the manga books 17 to 42 - From
the arrival of Raditz until the very end. After the end of DBZ, a new TV serie began,
"Dragon Ball GT", but is not based on any Toriyama manga.
Important notice : the
manga is always named "Dragon Ball". It's only the TV Serie who changed name and
became Dragon Ball Z. If you come by books which are titled "Dragon Ball Z",
it's probably the anime comics of the movies (see the DBZ movie page).
After the end of the DB
manga, Shueisha (the publisher of Shonen Jump and DB books) published 7 coffee-table
books, the illustration series, filled with DB info. The books are :
- Complete Illustrations
- Story Guide
- TV Animation Part I
- World Guide
- TV Animation Part II
- Movies and TV Specials
- DB Daijiiten (Encyclopedia?)
You can read Curtis Hoffmann's
reviews here.
 The manga is translated into
numerous language, mainly in Asia, but also more recently in Europe. The French manga is
very faithful to the original, without any censor or many changes in characters names. The
only differences are the french sound effects and the inverted reading order. It seems the
only language DB hasn't been translated to is...english! :)
In America, it should be possible to
find the Japanese version in Japanese bookstores such as Sasuga, Kinokuniya and others.
Chinese, Korean and other asian language version are easily found in any chinatown (in
Montreal, the Chinese version is easy to find). The French version is in every library in
Quebec, France, Belgium, Switzerland and other French-speaking countries.
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