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 July 1, 2004 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo.

Paperback: 224 pages.

Contents: volume with coloured removable glossy cover, monochromatic orange inner cover and occidental reading direction, almost entirely dedicated to Dragon Ball 1st series. The prologue is composed by a double page illustration with the foundations of Dragon Ball story: Goku meeting Bulma, the Dragon Radar etc... Then there are 7 sections, mainly related to DB 1st series: the first is about Goku, his evolution, abilities, the items appearing in his adventures during the first series (Kinton cloud, the magical staff Nyoi-Bo etc...) friends and enemies. You also can find an interesting diagram (we show it below) explaining Red Ribbon military hierarchy, with Commander Red at the top of the chain of command and the androids at the bottom. The next pages show an illustrated summary of the events with the break of two monochromatic sections dedicated to Japanese dubbers of the main characters (not only from the first series but also from Z series like Vegeta, Cell and Buu's dubbers). Some pages show the different footage composing the two opening films and the two ending films accompanying DB episodes from 1 to 101 and from 102 to 153 and the two different eyecatches, the first appearing in episodes 1 to 42 and the second one in episodes 43 to 153. The next part of this guide relates to the analysis of "only-anime" characters. Then we find a short black and white comics (in Japanese of course ;__;) and think, by looking at the illustrations, it is inspired from Dragon Ball Z. The inner back cover contains a sealed brochure hiding a Dragon Ball CardGame! ^_^

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