DRAGON BALL FULL COLOR TP VOL 03 SAIYAN ARC: Volume 3 (Dragon Ball Full Color Saiyan Arc)

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sintzu wrote:I could be wrong but I think someone from Viz said they were going to release 3 volumes per year so if that's true then Cell will take up 2018-2019 while Buu 2020-2021. Dark Demon Realm Mission! ( Dispatch! Time Patrol • Time of the Dark Demon Realm's Resurrection • Complete Resurrection) • Universe Mission!! ( Prison Planet • Universe Seed) • Big Bang Mission!!! ( Big Bang Mission • The New Universe • End of Experiment) • Ultra God Mission!!!! ( Begin! Super Space-Time Tournament • Vs. the Former Supreme Kai of Time) • Meteor Mission! For ages, I was afraid to re-read the content of this volume. I absolutely loved Dragon Ball Z from about 2003 to maybe 2007. It was in 2006 that I began to read the manga, starting from the beginning of the Dragon Ball series, with kid Goku, as the series is meant to be, regardless of VIZ's distinction between both halves of the series. Unfortunately, some time in high school, I somewhat randomly came up with this silly idea that I disliked (no, "hated") the Z chapters, for shitting so hard on the comedic adventure roots, in favor of aliens and power-level bullshit and directionless story arcs. Every Dragon Ball translation has its own particular naming conventions, and each one has its merits. Deciding a translation is bad just because you personally find these names don't roll of the tongue as well as the names that you're used to from the version you grew up with strikes me as a particularly immature way of criticising.

Enter Trunks • The Red Ribbon Androids • Rise of the Machines • The Terror of Cell • The Room of Spirit and Time • The Cell Game • Gohan vs. Cell • Death of a Warrior Having not read the original Dragonball Z in manga form I am not 100% sure how much quality was retained in colorizing the series but from what I can tell the book looks amazing even retaining the original Japanese sound effects where they did not want to chance ruining part of a scene. If you enjoyed the anime I bet you will enjoy this book too. And, I'm gonna be honest, "replac[ing] those old 90s scans with cleaner, more accurate ones" kinda just makes me a little angry. People devoting resources to translating a manga Viz has had official releases of for roughly 20 years so people who choose to pirate the manga instead of buying it can have a slightly better reading experience, instead of scanlating stuff like Victory Mission which has no full translation? Viz seem to release each arc over the period of a little under a year, then take nearly a year's break. (Saiyan: February-June 2014, Freeza: May 2016-January 2017, Cell: 2018-???)So, if this turns out true, we'll be waiting 11 years for the rest of the Full Colour manga. As much as Viz's handling of Full Colour is awful, I doubt they'd be that bad with it, although I wouldn't totally discount the possibility. Dragon Ball in Space • Battlefield Namek • The Ginyu Force • Goku vs. Ginyu • The Wrath of Freeza • Goku vs. Freeza • The Super Saiyan

And even if that doesn't sway you, Dragon Ball's Viz manga has never really been something that goes around the piracy scene anyway; I guarantee you what you'd be reading on Manga Geek or whatever else would be a shitty scanlation from the '90s using comic sans typeface, full of mistranslations and other errors, and artificially filled with swears for a TOTALLY RADICAL EDGY FLAVOUR or something else like that. And probably a bunch of it would be flipped around for western comics-style L-to-R reading. The Ginyu fight lasted a lot shorter than I remembered it being. This includes the few chapters with Ginyu in Goku's body. Maybe Toei dragged it out for their shitty anime adaptation? I also could have sworn Bulma was present when the frog was thrown in the way of Ginyu's body-change beam, but maybe I'm thinking of the frog reappearing in a later chapter or something.

Manga

Son Goku is the greatest hero on Earth. Five years after defeating the demon king Piccolo, he’s grown up and has a family. But what is the real reason for Goku’s incredible strength? A visitor from outer space arrives bearing terrible news—Goku is an alien, and the visitor, Raditz, is Goku’s brother! When Raditz turns out to be a ruthless killer, Goku must fight his incredibly strong brother to save his family and the entire human race. A surprising alliance may be Earth’s last Goku will team up with his old enemy Piccolo to save the world! Warriors from Universe 6! • The Winning Universe is Decided! • Zero Mortal Project! • Last Chance For Hope • The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks! • The Super Warriors Gather! • Sign of Son Goku's Awakening • Battle's End and Aftermath Jump Super Stars • Heroes: Victory Mission • Heroes: Charisma Mission • Heroes: Ultimate Charisma Mission • Discross Jinryoku God Max!! • Xenoverse 2 • Fusions • FighterZ Cell would be 2018-2019, Boo would be 2021-2022, Boyhood would be 2024-2025, and Piccolo would be 2027-2028. That said, yeah, at the current point, reading for free is an incredibly stupid idea because Viz is basically asking for the second lowest price anyone could reasonably ask for a paid service and the replacement scans aren't done yet (or have been outright cancelled, idk).