It would be much like if I said all of Funimation's work is unwatchable garbage simply for the reason that Funimation's in-house cast is not the cast I grew up on. (Then again, one could argue there's some truth to this; I don't like Funimation's cast, and maybe that is a nostalgia-based bias. But that's a whole other discussion that I'm not in the mood to get into right now) I’m even more surprised to say that this wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be—it was even a little enjoyable. I didn’t mind reading it. 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 Warriors from Universe 6! • The Winning Universe is Decided! • Zero Mortal Project! • Last Chance For Hope • The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks! • The Super Warriors Gather! • Sign of Son Goku's Awakening • Battle's End and Aftermath I mean, just because Viz translated it, doesn't mean everyone's accepted their translation of it, especially since they seemed to have had a "close enough" attitude towards the translations (if the amount of corrections Herms had to make are any indication). For instance, even as recently as the 3-in-1 releases, they still call Vegetto "Vegerot," which sounds awful regardless of how much more sense it makes to the US naming conventions.

Dragon Ball in Space • Battlefield Namek • The Ginyu Force • Goku vs. Ginyu • The Wrath of Freeza • Goku vs. Freeza • The Super Saiyan And, I'm gonna be honest, "replac[ing] those old 90s scans with cleaner, more accurate ones" kinda just makes me a little angry. People devoting resources to translating a manga Viz has had official releases of for roughly 20 years so people who choose to pirate the manga instead of buying it can have a slightly better reading experience, instead of scanlating stuff like Victory Mission which has no full translation? Jump Super Stars • Heroes: Victory Mission • Heroes: Charisma Mission • Heroes: Ultimate Charisma Mission • Discross Jinryoku God Max!! • Xenoverse 2 • Fusions • FighterZViz seem to release each arc over the period of a little under a year, then take nearly a year's break. (Saiyan: February-June 2014, Freeza: May 2016-January 2017, Cell: 2018-???) For ages, I was afraid to re-read the content of this volume. I absolutely loved Dragon Ball Z from about 2003 to maybe 2007. It was in 2006 that I began to read the manga, starting from the beginning of the Dragon Ball series, with kid Goku, as the series is meant to be, regardless of VIZ's distinction between both halves of the series. Unfortunately, some time in high school, I somewhat randomly came up with this silly idea that I disliked (no, "hated") the Z chapters, for shitting so hard on the comedic adventure roots, in favor of aliens and power-level bullshit and directionless story arcs. So, if this turns out true, we'll be waiting 11 years for the rest of the Full Colour manga. As much as Viz's handling of Full Colour is awful, I doubt they'd be that bad with it, although I wouldn't totally discount the possibility. For instance, even as recently as the 3-in-1 releases, they still call Vegetto "Vegerot," which sounds awful regardless of how much more sense it makes to the US naming conventions.

Dark Demon Realm Mission! ( Dispatch! Time Patrol • Time of the Dark Demon Realm's Resurrection • Complete Resurrection) • Universe Mission!! ( Prison Planet • Universe Seed) • Big Bang Mission!!! ( Big Bang Mission • The New Universe • End of Experiment) • Ultra God Mission!!!! ( Begin! Super Space-Time Tournament • Vs. the Former Supreme Kai of Time) • Meteor Mission!sintzu wrote:I could be wrong but I think someone from Viz said they were going to release 3 volumes per year so if that's true then Cell will take up 2018-2019 while Buu 2020-2021. I have never read or seen any of the Dragon Ball series, including any of it’s spin-offs or other versions. The most I’ve ever seen of this series is the image of a few of the characters. So my understanding of this series was minuscule when I received this book, and I was a little deterred when I thought this was the first, only to find out it was a later arc of the series. Every Dragon Ball translation has its own particular naming conventions, and each one has its merits. Deciding a translation is bad just because you personally find these names don't roll of the tongue as well as the names that you're used to from the version you grew up with strikes me as a particularly immature way of criticising. And even if that doesn't sway you, Dragon Ball's Viz manga has never really been something that goes around the piracy scene anyway; I guarantee you what you'd be reading on Manga Geek or whatever else would be a shitty scanlation from the '90s using comic sans typeface, full of mistranslations and other errors, and artificially filled with swears for a TOTALLY RADICAL EDGY FLAVOUR or something else like that. And probably a bunch of it would be flipped around for western comics-style L-to-R reading. 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

So, using these assumptions to estimate the release times, and not counting overhangs of a month or two in/out of the given years(Freeza's last volume was the 3rd of January 2017, but in my estimation, I would write Freeza's release as just being 2016)...The Ginyu fight lasted a lot shorter than I remembered it being. This includes the few chapters with Ginyu in Goku's body. Maybe Toei dragged it out for their shitty anime adaptation? I also could have sworn Bulma was present when the frog was thrown in the way of Ginyu's body-change beam, but maybe I'm thinking of the frog reappearing in a later chapter or something. If Viz are merciful, and decide to release each arc over the course of a year, this will be better, with the release schedule being more like Cell in 2018, Boo in 2020, Boyhood in 2022, and Piccolo in 2024. Japanese manga is one of the best types of comic for you to read. Manga has amazing art style and exciting storytelling. Nowadays, with the help of webtoon – a kind of webcomic that allows you to read comics by scrolling easily, manga is adjusted in the webtoon form and free online manga brings even better experience to readers. That said, yeah, at the current point, reading for free is an incredibly stupid idea because Viz is basically asking for the second lowest price anyone could reasonably ask for a paid service and the replacement scans aren't done yet (or have been outright cancelled, idk). People devoting resources to translating a manga Viz has had official releases of for roughly 20 years so people who choose to pirate the manga instead of buying it can have a slightly better reading experience, instead of scanlating stuff like Victory Mission which has no full translation?