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Total Dragon Ball Z

Total Dragon Ball Z

List Price: $12.95
Your Price: $9.71
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's more than woth buying.
Review: ... This book is very great, tons of info, and other helpfulstuff. As for grammar and stuff, yes, it is kind of messed, noteverything is spelled right. The reason why some of the episodesummaries are missing is because all the info (or most of it I shouldsay) is from their website... and that part was mostly done byfans. And they were making the magazine/book before the fans got tosend in a whole bunch of summaries. But other than some mistakes, thisbook is great to get. And so what if they are missing some things,you can't expect them to provide everything.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A nice try, but much work is needed.
Review: As a previous viewer stated, this really is nothing more than a glorified magazine.I've gone throuh it, cover-to-cover, and I'm wondering if these people have actually SEEN dragonball z. There are numerous problems with it. Errors, mispellings, innaccurate information.

Let's start with the errors. I'm convinced that the authors are little more than American DBZ viewers who have seen a Japanese episode once or twice. The information looks like it was copied directly from a website, complete with mispellings and all. The "biographies" are short, and rarely state anything meaningful or interesting ("Bra is the daughter of Vegeta and Bulma"). Yet another problem : Is it just me, or do poser magazines struggle to get real images? Numerous (100+) of the images in this book are terrible screenshots that are blurry, fuzzy, or grainy (Many so terrible you can hardly make out what it's a picture of).

The synopsis of Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT is not very good either. The author's have a rather snobby view of American fans and a high view of themselves who have, quote, "Seen the REAL version [of DBZ]". Pojo, get off of it. Not even the card game guide is good, with poor strategies and being very outdated. I'm not even gonna start on the pathetic 3-D images thing.

That said, I really do praise Pojo for trying. It's much better than anything Becket or some other magazine company has tried to put out. However, hopefully they will revise it, knowing that DBZ fans are one of the most difficult to please.

Here's the bottom line, for the type of people who would spend $9 on a magazine, I think they will be very pleased. Kids/Teens who are fans of the English version of Dragon Ball Z and are not picky about tiny details will be satisfied. I'm just warning those would consider this a valid source for information. In short, information accurate enough to satisfy those who don't know better, but not on par with some of the stuff that can be found on the internet.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not an extremly good book
Review: For people who have seen the japanese version of dbz/gt they wont be very pleased with this book nice try but needs a lot more work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I rated this as five stars only because it doesn't go to six
Review: Hi DBZ fans! If you're looking for a magazine with tons of articles, lots of pictures,bios that last twenty pages, and an extra bonus section, you just hit the jackpot. To brief you on DBZ, it's about alien races, advanced technology and the good old fight scenes. I can't tell you all of it, but watch five episodes and learn away. It's got a 3D section, but be careful not to lose the glasses.It tells about the confusing stages of the Super Saiyan (or saya-jin) and gives summaries so that you don't have to wait until reruns. Do you get Goten and Gohan mixed up? Not after you're done reading this. Do you forget who can use the Kamehahmeha wave? Not after you read this. After I read this magazine, I knew so much about DragonballZ my friends were jealous. Seriously. If you want to be admired for being a DBZ genius, this is perfect. If you like the card game but it confuses you, buy this. And if you just like the pictures, this is also perfect. So it's perfect no matter what I review so just Buy it! Trust me, I'm a fan.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: could have been a 4+!
Review: I purchased this book as a gift for my son. He absolutely loved it! Until he noticed that the 3-D glasses were missing from the middle of the book...hmmmm...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I'm now know Every Thing About DragonBall Z!
Review: I thought I knew a lot about DBZ before I bought this book, Boy was I wrong! This book has over 300 Biographies! I now know every one from Unreleased DBZ movies and Characters from DBGT! I knew who Majin Buu was before two years ago! My friends were jealous! Get this book! Make your friends green (like Piccolo!)With Envy! I paid the hefty price from a local book store. Buy it, you won't be disapointed! Oh Yeah there's a funny section about who would should do a DBZ live action movie, about wich Actors should play them!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Total Dragonball Z is great.
Review: If you are a hardcore db fan or a newcomer, this is a great and informative mag.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IT IS GREAT!
Review: It has all the stuff you want in Dbz it even has Bios about all the people in Dragonball, DragonballZ, and.........DragonBallGT! A little too high but it has great drawing poses! Buy this if you love DBZ!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good book
Review: Pojo (the people who made this book) really outdid themselves. This book has a two sentence title for every episode. It tells you the 4 forms of the Super Saiyen, a lot of full episode summarys, and about Dragonball GT (the sequel to Dragonball Z). If you like DBZ, you should read this book for a lot of information. Oh, and it also has a description for every single character.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointing MAGAZINE trying to pass itself off as a book
Review: This "book" is merely a glorified,perfect-boundmagazine. It is referred to as such in the"book" itself. Despite the fact that the authors complainabout grammatical errors on the DVD inserts, it is quickly obvious theNOBODY took the time to proof-read THIS book! The series Dragon Ballis summarized with so little detail that the reader is left none thewiser. The same is true of the summary of Dragon Ball GT.

Themain focus of the book, DBZ, also suffers from confusing and errorridden capsule synopses of the episodes--though not ALL of theepisodes, only the first 137--why? I don't know. The series has beenout of production for years. Character names are mixed-up fromparagraph to paragraph, not to mention the spelling of same (as if thestory isn't confusing enough. Instead of wasting so much space on 3-Dimages, a little (A LOT) more detail would have been welcome.

The"book" discusses the video and DVD releases, but doesn'teven give you a guide to the titles that have been released. Forexample, it would have been nice to know which DVDs are dubbed, whichare subtitled, which are edited, which are uncut...Nope, none ofthat.

There is also NO discussion of the differences between theDragon Ball and DBZ manga and their animated counterparts. There isno discussion of the feature films and how the fit or don't fit intothe chronology.

The final section, a "who's who" in theDragon Ball universe is well done, I'll give them that. Also the"book" features a handy list of the episodetitles.

Disappointing. I am sorry I didn't wait to see this instores first. I wouldn't have bought it.


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