Dragon Ball, Vol. 1: The Monkey King: Volume 1

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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 Firearms were edited into "laser blasters", though a pistol-armed robber was able to shoot a character without being censored. Vol. 1: The Monkey King (1985) - I know absolutely nothing about Dragonball going into this. Since I read so much manga now I thought it would be good to introduce myself to some old school popular series and decided to give this a shot. I found this first volume absolutely hilarious and such a fun, compelling story with so much happening. Goku is so cute and naive that I loved him right away and the shots of him without his pants on are a riot because he looks like a toddler, even though he is 14 but soo unworldly. The interaction between him and Bulma is also a riot as he learns the difference between boys and girls. Lots of sexual innuendo but of the pre-adolescent variety that is was all just silly fun. The plot was also fun with all 5 main characters being introduced in this volume and them finding 5 (I think) of the 7 dragonballs. I had no idea what the plot was going to be going into this and was quite amused to get almost a whole quest just from this first volume. I have to say I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did and am eager to read Vol. 2! (5/5)

Although translated from Japanese to English, Viz Media keep the manga in its original format, meaning it is read from right to left as it would be in the Japanese version, rather than left to right as most English literature would be. Keeping it in a right-to-left format prevents the publisher from having to flip the images, which can ruin carefully chosen artistic angles, and ruin Japanese symbols that may still be present in the artwork, such as on characters' clothing. Return To The Tournament • The Eyes of Tenshinhan • The Demon King Piccolo • Piccolo Conquers The World • Heaven And Earth • The Titanic Tournament • Goku vs. Piccolo

The original Dragon Ball is silly fun, with an almost stream-of-consciousness plot. The simple quest for seven mystical dragon balls serves as a loose framework for disparate adventures in a world whose characters and locales are a mish-mash of futuristic, mythological, prehistoric, and cinematic. Jump Super Stars • Heroes: Victory Mission • Heroes: Charisma Mission • Heroes: Ultimate Charisma Mission • Discross Jinryoku God Max!! • Xenoverse 2 • Fusions • FighterZ I remember Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z vividly as a child. When I was a little boy, my parents did not have cable television but instead we had an antenna that would get some of the local channels. I remember one early morning I woke up around 5 AM while my parents were asleep and I simply got out of bed and walked to the television and turned it on. Whatever channel my parents had left it on previously had appear and with it came Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon. I did not know the plot, the characters, or the storyline and yet I was entranced by the animation and the whole aspect of this iconic series. Even though my parents got extremely upset I was oblivious of it all and became an early fan of animation. Dragon Ball, Vol. 1 (VIZBIG Edition)". Viz Media. Archived from the original on 2008-03-15 . Retrieved 2008-06-08.

a b "DRAGON BALL 1" (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on 2015-09-29 . Retrieved 2008-06-02.The Lord of Lords, mightiest of the deities, has come to Earth—and he needs the help of Goku, Gohan and Vegeta! From across aeons of time, from across the stars, the evil wizard Bobbidi has returned, gathering chi energy to resurrect the imprisoned djinn Boo, the most powerful creature that ever existed. Beneath the ground in a buried spaceship, Bobbidi has assembled a menagerie of vicious beasts from across the galaxy, ready to defeat our heroes and feed their power to the djinn. But the most vicious enemy of all is already standing in the heroes' ranks... Dragon Ball SD is a colored spin-off manga written and illustrated by Naho Ōishi that has been published in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine since its debut issue released in December 2010. [94] The manga is a condensed retelling of Goku's various adventures as a child, with many details changed, in a super deformed art style, hence the title. After four chapters, the quarterly Saikyō Jump switched to a monthly schedule. The chapters published since the monthly switch have been collected into tankōbon volumes since April 4, 2013. In the manga, when Goku defeats the pterodactyl, it falls on flat ground. In the anime, it falls down a cliff. Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. The story follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls. While I wait for the library to get a copy of the just-released sixth installment of those food dungeon comics that I enjoy so much, I figured it was time to read some history.