Dragon Ball was born in the far-off year of 1984 as a comic strip in Weekly Shonen Jump #51. But look at how much stuff came out from that simple strip... The manga volumes, TV series, videogames, calendars, cards, movies, GT series and every type of gadget! Dragon Ball Arena always tried to give you more info about Akira Toriyama's work! So a special section dedicated to "DB guides" could not be missing: they will reveal all Dragon Ball mysteries starting from those little pearls of wisdom, the Daizenshuu, until reaching the two recent Dragonball LANDMARK and Dragonball FOREVER, published by Shueisha Inc. to celebrate the new Japanese DB release. This latest version of the manga, Dragonball Perfect Edition, is composed by 34 volumes (Kanzenban), with new red covers and a new four-page, full-color ending drawn by Akira Toriyama himself!

Published in Japan on December 24, 2003 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo.

Paperback: 196 pages.

Contents: this is the first of 2 companion volumes published by Shueisha to commemorate the new re-release of Dragon Ball manga, with coloured removable glossy cover, monochromatic inner cover (green outside / orange inside) and occidental reading direction. The book contains only few coloured pages showing some pictures from Daizenshuu and 10 of the 16 special tributes from popular manga artists in Japan, already come out as brochure with the new Kanzenban volumes of DB. Black and white pages, collecting 4 main chapters, go through the whole DB story with special schedules and info of all Dragon Ball characters. The first section relates about DB fundation, with chapters explaining the origin of the Dragon Balls (What's the DRAGONBALL), the Universe of Dagon Ball, with pages dedicated to Planet Vegeta, Namek and Planet Freeza (THE GLOBE OF DB WORLD) and Earth just like it appears in Dragon Ball (THE EARTH OF DB WORLD). The book also contains 2 maps (that you can examine by clicking on the previews below) showing where the events of DB story took place. Section 2 relates to LANDMARK OF DB WORLD, that is Dragon Ball milestones and the final landmark is dedicated to Goku Super Saiyan defeating Freeza. Section 3 is called "DB STORY INDEX" and contains shortly illustrated summaries of DB new release manga volumes 1-22. Section 4 is all about Akira Toriyama, his artistic career and other works (manga, short stories and one-shots) like Pink, Chobit, Mad Matic, SandLand, Cowa, Kajika, Neko Majin etc. The 5th and last section is the coloured DRAGON BALL CHILDREN. Here we find the 10 tributes by other mangaka influenced by Toriyama's work and then an illustrated list of many DB international releases. Actually Dragon Ball has been published all over the world: Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico, U.S.A., Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, France, Denmark, Germany...

This page was made in appreciation of Akira Toriyama's work and is promoting it to viewers everywhere.
We are in no way trying to infringe copyrights on Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT.
Dragon Ball is copyrighted by Akira Toriyama, TOEI Animation, Bird Studio and Shueisha Inc.