Dragon Ball, Vol. 1

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Summary: Great!
Review: As said above me, this is the start of the Dragon Ball series, which is incredibly infamous (moreso for dbz, though) but this is a really great book! It's easily the funniest and most perverted manga volume I've ever read, it made me laugh so hard at times.
The artwork is great, yet simple and uncluttered, and the picture gallery at the book of the book has some really awesome designs which I've never seen included in any other manga series before.
Overall, I think this is a must-have for any manga collector's collection but it does have some parts that's definitely more suitable for kids 13+.
This is my all-time favorite series but I'm not being partial towards it here, I just really think it has a great manga. (plus, it's cheap)
Highy, highly recommended

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Summary: best comic in my life
Review: In Japan too, Dragon Ball is the most popular anime and comic. In ten years ago, at that time all Japanese boys watched Dragon Ball. That influenced in many categorys, for instance comic TVanime, TVgame, card game. Boys of those days did Doragon Ball playing in the school, concretly we played our technique by saying [kamehameha][dodonpa][rougafu-fu-ken].

The boy's tendency that they respect for strong men will be the same in the world. I respected for Son gokuu because he was more and more strong by practicing. Though I like the word[effort][endeavor], the origin may come from the anime.

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Summary: Dragon Ball Vol.1
Review: This is a really great Magna. It's got comedy, action, and adventure. The right-to-left format takes a minute or two to get used to, but after that it just seems natural. One of the things that I like about this Magna is that the pace is faster than the series, and each volume contains the equivalent of quite a few episodes.

Plus, you get to see things in the Magna that were left out of the cartoon. Which brings me to another point, even though the cover art looks "kiddish", and the show is more geared towards children, this Magna really isn't a kids book. It's more for teens. You won't see anything worse than a PG-13 movie, but I wouldn't reccomend it for a child.

This Magna has some really great moments in it, plus you get to see how all the stars of Dragonball Z meet each other. Hillarity ensues quite often. That's not to say that the action isn't great either. Akira Toriyama does a wonderful job depicting every move that the characters make when they fight.

So if you like Magna(japanese comics), Anime, Dragonball, or are just curious, then this is the Graphic Novel for you.

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Summary: This Magna is Better than the Anime Series!
Review: This is a really great Magna. It's got comedy, action, and adventure. The right-to-left format takes a minute or two to get used to, but after that it just seems natural. One of the things that I like about this Magna is that the pace is faster than the series, and each volume contains the equivalent of quite a few episodes.

Plus, you get to see things in the Magna that were left out of the cartoon. Which brings me to another point, even though the cover art looks "kiddish", and the show is more geared towards children, this Magna really isn't a kids book. It's more for teens. You won't see anything worse than a PG-13 movie, but I wouldn't reccomend it for a child.

This Magna has some really great moments in it, plus you get to see how all the stars of Dragonball Z meet each other. Hillarity ensues quite often. That's not to say that the action isn't great either. Akira Toriyama does a wonderful job depicting every move that the characters make when they fight.

So if you like Magna(japanese comics), Anime, Dragonball, or are just curious, then this is the Graphic Novel for you.

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Summary: Dragon Ball Vol.1
Review: This is a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY great book! I loved it! If you are a Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT fan you really should buy this.
It is the very first one! It happens before DBZ, and it's ten times better! It's what the anime series is based on, and it's even better than the anime series!
The story is: one day a girl named Bulma is driving in her car when she (literally) bumps into a child named Son Goku. Bulma is on a quest to find the seven magic Dragonballs which will grant her any wish! But, of course, they run into troubles along the way like a transforming pig, an old martial artist who gives Son Goku a flying cloud, a desert bandit, and more!
All in all, this deserves 6 stars, but I can only go up to five on this rating scale! You're going to want to buy #2 RIGHT AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I really reccomend buying it!

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Summary: BEST MANGA EVER!
Review: This was my first ever manga and is my favorite. If you're just starting manga this would deffantely be the series I would recommend. Even if you've been collecting manga for a while this would be a great edition to any collection. I like Goku's adventures as a kid more than when he is older.
I highly recommend this book to any manga fan. Go out and buy it now! Besides, it's cheaper than most manga. :)

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Summary: The start of a legend...and uncensored, too!
Review: When I first wrote a review for this book's first-edition all of two years ago, I reported that this volume, for all its effort in getting a (mostly) true-to-the-original version of the Dragon Ball manga to US audiences, was unfortunately censored. However, as of a year ago (so I'm a little late with this rewrite here...), this is no longer the case.

Physically, the book is somewhat larger than its Japanese counterpart, measuring at roughly 12 by 18 centimeters. When these books first came out, they were done as their own franchise, and as such were printed in a different (and larger) format, but have since been incorporated into the "Shonen Jump" line of graphic novels. The cover art remained the same, but the book was shrunk down (not the pages, mind you, just the height and width) to the version you see here.

Content-wise, this is basically the same as it was in the comic book form (waaaay back 5 years ago as of this writing). All text and sound effects are redrawn in English, but left in their right-to-left format, as with all of Viz's Shonen Jump comics. As I metioned before, this volume is indeed uncensored, and all of the dirty jokes are left in (so all you sukebes should rejoice).

Overall, the translation's decent; it suffers a little bit in that being the first volume, things were still being adjusted while the rewriter (Gerard Jones) found his niche for the series. For example, Goku's backwoods accent is a bit overly pronounced, as are Chi-Chi's and Gyuumaou's. This volume also does more embellishment of the translation than is present later on. There's nothing bad enough to change the meaning of the dialogue, but compared to the later volumes, which are very close to a direct translation, it stands out. (It's also interesting to note that 5 years later, Viz seemingly _still_ hasn't caught on to the fact that the Dragon Balls' names are Chinese, as they still opt for more-or-less a romanization of the katakana...which were only there to help the Japanese readers pronounce the words).

Overall, this is a fun read, and if I were you, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. Although...if you know Japanese, you might want to opt for the recent re-released "Kanzenban" (perfect edition) of the Japanese manga, since it's the original (and has all the color pages in color, too!). For English speakers, though, this is the next best thing, and there is nothing which should really prevent you from getting it.

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Summary: Tplace to start for those who are curious about DBZ
Review: When you open up the "first" volume of DBZ in either format they say that it is not the first part of sieries but the second(infact the volume number of it in the over all storyline is 17).
Your probably going "huh?" in all fairness this is the better satrting point not just story wise, but it also is a great set of incidents in its own rights.

So why only four? I never said it was the best story Period.

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Summary: The best way to start a collection!!!
Review: Whethere you are a fan of the tv series,manga,anime in all or just want to start out this is for you.This book is perfect,it is the introduction point to db/dbz/dbgt.It containts tales 1-11,making the price very cheap.Once you start and finish reading it,you will want to buy all the volumes in the series.I recommend buying all the dragonball and dragonball z gn,rather thn buying it in dvds.I own dragonball vol.1-13 and dragonball z vol.1-2 and I plan on having them all.