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“Dragon Ball Daima” Episode Guide Kicks Off With Episode 1
Published by 15 October 2024, 4:46 PM EDTComment

Dragon Ball Daima has begun, and with it comes updates to our “Episode Guide” here at Kanzenshuu!

The main page for Daima now contains a running list of episodes, and the first episode’s page is also (more or less) complete! Each of these episode pages moving forward will contain a full translation of the respective episode’s credits, a complete synopsis, and various notes including those about the simulcast translation and any quirks in the Japanese script, notable cast and crew, and any animation differences from material seen thus far in trailers.

Check Out Episode 1!

As part of this overall update, the “Cast Guide” has also been updated with the new and adjusted voice cast roles, and our “Animation Staff Database” has crossed the threshold of 1,000 individuals!

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“Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO” Sells Three Million Copies First Day
Published by 15 October 2024, 12:18 PM EDTComment

Bandai Namco — by way of social media posts, a PDF shared on their official website, and PR postings — announced that the new video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO sold three million copies in its first full 24 hours of release.

The announcement does not specify or go into any further details regarding pre-orders and early access (which technically began back on 08 October 2024, ahead of the game’s formal, wide release on 11 October 2024).

The company attributes the sales success to an international partnership of over 30 offices, with specific marketing initiatives tailored to each territory (including a road tour in North America, and other game events across Europe, South America, and Asia).

Dragon Ball FighterZ (released in January 2018) shipped two million copies worldwide during its first week. As of May 2023, both Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 (released October 2016) and Dragon Ball FighterZ had each sold ten million copies. As of this summer, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (released January 2020) had sold eight million copies.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.

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40th Anniversary Tribute “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” #39: Kōhei Horikoshi
Published by 14 October 2024, 10:43 AM EDTComment

The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the magazine’s back cover.

Following the previous thirty-eight entries, this month’s November 2024 issue brings us Kōhei Horikoshi (Ōmagadoki Zoo, My Hero Academia) and their take on the series’ 13th volume cover:

Horikoshi commented:

It’s an honor to get to be involved with Dragon Ball like this! I’ve drawn my comics in admiration of Goku’s light-hearted, strong, and reassuring character! No matter when and where I read from, he’s right there, looking cool with a sense of humor — he’s the greatest character!

Saikyō Jump is currently a monthly magazine published in Japan by Shueisha under the “Jump” line of magazines. The magazine began as a quarterly publication in 2012, went monthly in 2013, went bimonthly in late-2014, and returned to a monthly format in 2021 (including a digital release for the first time). The magazine’s focus is spin-off and supplementary manga series aimed at a young audience, while also including game promotions, news coverage, and more. The magazine currently serializes content such as Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! manga series, which just came to an end this same issue — new Dragon Ball Super Divers content is scheduled to begin next issue.

For calendar year 2019, Shueisha reported Saikyō Jump‘s circulation down at 130,000, with readership as 58.5% upper elementary school, 28% lower middle school, 11% middle school, and 2.5% high school or older.

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Saikyō Jump Serialization Updates: October/November/December 2024 Issues
Published by 12 October 2024, 2:36 PM EDTComment, ,

With the conclusion of the Dragon Ball Heroes card-based arcade game series, the transition to Dragon Ball Super Divers, and a few ongoing manga milestones, the lineup in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine is shaking things up with new ongoing entries and special one-shots.

Saikyō Jump: October 2024 Issue

After a single one-shot chapter back in 2020 and then 37 full chapters in regular serialization, Yūji Kasai‘s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! came to a close in the October 2024 issue. A fifth collected volume should theoretically finish out the series with a bump to its page count — though nine chapters remain, the first four collected volumes contained seven chapters each.

The full colorization of Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land also came to a close in the October 2024 issue. The colorization spanned the full original 14-chapter run. No collected edition has been announced, and no continuation is present in the November 2024 issue — for example, there is no Anime Comic adaptation of the streaming series’ original second story arc now running in the magazine.

The October 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump was released 04 September 2024.

Saikyō Jump: November 2024 Issue

After 12 full chapters in serialization (themselves following a wealth of chapters from the previous four series), Yoshitaka Nagayama‘s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! came to a close in the November 2024 issue. A second collected volume has been announced for this December, which should contain the final six chapters and complete the series.

The November 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump was released 04 October 2024. Copies are still available to order via Amazon Japan.

Saikyō Jump: December 2024 Issue

Next-issue-previews from the November 2024 issue detail a wealth of content coming in the December 2024 issue.

Naho Ooishi will return to the print pages of Saikyo Jump for a “Special Edition” (特別編 Tokubetsuhen) of Dragon Ball SD in the December 2024 issue. A splash alongside the announcement notes that it will be in celebration of Dragon Ball‘s 40th anniversary, and that there will be a “special announcement” about Dragon Ball SD to accompany it. Though in recent years Dragon Ball SD has otherwise been relegated to online video content, Ooishi did make a brief return to print back in July 2022 with another “Special Edition” in support of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.

Additionally, an all-new manga by Yūji Kasai in support of Dragon Ball Super Divers will begin next issue — as with his previous series (the aforementioned Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!!), this new series will be about a boy who aims to be the best at the game. This new series was first teased in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES― book released back in August. This new series will be separate from the Dragon Ball Super Divers manga one-shot that Toyotarō will contribute to the December 2024 issue of V-Jump releasing later this month.

Other Dragon Ball content next issue will include a feature on the Dragon Ball Super Divers game itself, a special poster with the second key visual for Dragon Ball Daima, and a “Vegeta (Mini)” card for the Dragon Ball Super Card Game.

The December 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump will be released 01 November 2024 for ¥700. Pre-orders for the print magazine have not yet opened on Amazon Japan.

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“Dragon Ball Super Divers” Arcade Game Launches November 2024 in Japan
Published by 06 October 2024, 4:04 PM EDTComment

The upcoming card-based arcade game Dragon Ball Super Divers is set to launch 07 November 2024 in Japan.

Similar to predecessors like Dragon Ball Heroes, types of cards for Super Divers will include Normal, Rare, Super Rare, and God Rare. Some of the initial God Rare character (and their respective attack) cards will include:

  • Son Goku: God Kamehameha
  • Vegeta: God Galic Cannon
  • Son Gohan (Boyhood): Explosive Kamehameha
  • Trunks (Teenager): Burning Attack
  • Broli: Gigantic Break
  • Bardock: Final Spirit Cannon
  • Majin Boo (Good): Majin Kamehameha
  • Son Goku (Daima): Nyoibō
  • Vegeta (Daima): Smash Blow

Game modes will include those where you play through missions ripped straight from the original story, different scenarios where you come up against certain enemies and have a chance to find a Dragon Ball, tournament brackets (including online battles), etc.

Players will be prompted to move their cards around the gameplay area to power-up and execute certain actions (again, similar to Dragon Ball Heroes before it).

Dragon Ball Super Divers is set to replace the existing Dragon Ball Heroes run from the last 13 years. Super Divers was originally announced last May.

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Podcast Episode #0513
Published by 06 October 2024, 1:00 PM EDTComment

Show Description

Episode #0513! Mike, Ken, and Meri review the “Super Hero” arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga! With three exclusive prologue and epilogue chapters, how does this arc hold up in the grand scheme of the Dragon Ball Super manga, and particularly as the only movie expanded on and fully adapted into the series?

How to Listen

Our podcast is available via Apple Podcasts and/or Google Podcasts, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on Spotify, or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.

 

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Ryōta Suzuki to Voice Yamcha in “Dragon Ball Daima”
Published by 04 October 2024, 9:53 AM EDTComment

In a brief post today on the official website for the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series, Ryōta Suzuki has been announced as the new voice actor for the character Yamcha, taking over the role from franchise veteran Tōru Furuya.

ヤムチャ役　担当声優交代のお知らせ

「ドラゴンボール」シリーズにおいて、永らくヤムチャ役を務められた古谷徹さんですが、 担当声優の交代を行うこととなりました。

2024年10月11日に放送となります「ドラゴンボールDAIMA」第１話より、後任として鈴木崚汰さんにご担当していただくことになりましたので、ご報告いたします。

Notice of Change for Yamcha’s Voice Actor

Tōru Furuya, who has played the role of Yamcha in the Dragon Ball series for a long time, will be replaced by another voice actor.

We hereby announce that Ryōta Suzuki will take over the role beginning with the first episode of Dragon Ball Daima, which begins its broadcast on October 11, 2024.

Following a series of revelations — specifically an extramarital affair that included verbal, emotional, and physical abuse — Furuya stepped down from and was removed from various voice acting roles, including several long-time roles and others still yet to be released. Notably, Miyu Irino took over Furuya’s role as Sabo in the One Piece series.

Little has been previewed with some of the legacy characters in Dragon Ball Daima, though trailers showcase many of them seemingly being turned back into children, Yamcha included.

Furuya’s time with Yamcha dates back to the original Dragon Ball television series, debuting in the fifth episode back in March 1986. Furuya played the character consistently over time to the modern era, up through and including the Dragon Ball Super television series and ancillary material like the Super Dragon Ball Heroes Promotional Anime.

Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series debuts 11 October 2024 on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.

The upcoming video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO — releasing the same weekend as the Dragon Ball Daima debut — is set to include Yamcha as a playable character. Promotional trailers for the game (released before the Furuya news broke) appear to still feature Furuya in the role, and no further announcements have been specifically made regarding this performance since then.

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“Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO” Playable Character Full Launch Lineup Revealed
Published by 25 September 2024, 4:25 PM EDTComment

By way of a “SUPER and MOVIES Character Trailer” as well as a “Full Roster Reveal” (with developer commentary), the complete launch lineup of 181 playable characters in Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO‘s base roster have been revealed:

“Goku (Mini)” from the forthcoming Dragon Ball Daima television series rounds things out as a technical 182nd launch character, though (at least for now) only as a pre-order bonus.

The full list of 181 base characters include (as noted on the official Sparking! ZERO website, with name spellings altered to match Kanzenshuu style guide standards and lightly alphabetized with additional minor placement adjustments):

  • Anilaza
  • Bardock
  • Beerus
  • Bergamo
  • Bobbidi
  • Bojack
  • Bojack, Transformed
  • Broly (Z)
  • Broly (Z), Legendary Super Saiyan
  • Broly (Z), Super Saiyan
  • Broli (Super)
  • Broli (Super), Super Saiyan
  • Broli (Super), Super Saiyan Full Power
  • Butta
  • Cabba
  • Cabba, Super Saiyan
  • Cabba, Super Saiyan 2
  • Caulifla
  • Caulifla, Super Saiyan 2
  • Cell, 1st Form
  • Cell, 2nd Form
  • Cell, Perfect
  • Cell, Super Perfect
  • Cell Jr.
  • Chiaotzu
  • Coola
  • Coola, Final Form
  • Dabra
  • Dispo
  • Dodoria
  • Dr. Gero
  • Dr. Uiro
  • Freeza (Z), 1st Form
  • Freeza (Z), 2nd Form
  • Freeza (Z), 3rd Form
  • Freeza (Z), 4th Form
  • Freeza (Z), Full Power
  • Mecha Freeza
  • Freeza (Super)
  • Golden Freeza
  • Freeza Force Soldier
  • Frost
  • Garlic Jr., Transformed
  • Ginyu
  • Gogeta (Z), Super Saiyan
  • Gogeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
  • Gogeta (Super)
  • Gogeta (Super), Super Saiyan
  • Gogeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
  • Gohan (Boyhood)
  • Gohan (Youth)
  • Gohan (Youth), Super Saiyan
  • Gohan (Youth), Super Saiyan 2
  • Gohan (Adult)
  • Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan
  • Gohan (Adult), Super Saiyan 2
  • Great Saiyaman
  • Ultimate Gohan
  • Gohan (Future)
  • Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
  • Goku (Teen)
  • Goku (Z-Early)
  • Goku (Z-Mid)
  • Goku (Z-Mid), Super Saiyan
  • Goku (Z-End)
  • Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan
  • Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan 2
  • Goku (Z-End), Super Saiyan 3
  • Goku (GT)
  • Goku (GT), Super Saiyan
  • Goku (GT), Super Saiyan 3
  • Goku (GT), Super Saiyan 4
  • Goku (Super)
  • Goku (Super), Super Saiyan
  • Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God
  • Goku (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
  • Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct -Sign-
  • Goku (Super), Ultra Instinct
  • Goku Black
  • Goku Black, Super Saiyan Rosé
  • Goten
  • Goten, Super Saiyan
  • Gotenks
  • Gotenks, Super Saiyan
  • Gotenks, Super Saiyan 3
  • Gurd
  • Hirudegarn
  • Hit
  • Janemba
  • Super Janemba
  • Jheece
  • Jiren
  • Jiren, Full Power
  • Kafla
  • Kafla, Super Saiyan
  • Kafla, Super Saiyan 2
  • Kakunsa
  • Kale
  • Kale, Super Saiyan
  • Kale, Super Saiyan (Berserk)
  • Kewi
  • King Cold
  • Kuririn
  • Majin Boo (Good)
  • Majin Boo (Pure Evil)
  • Majin Boo (Evil)
  • Majin Boo (Gohan Absorbed)
  • Majin Boo (Gotenks Absorbed)
  • Majin Boo (Pure)
  • Metal Coola
  • Mr. Satan
  • Nail
  • Nappa
  • No. 13
  • Merged No. 13
  • No. 16
  • No. 17 (Z)
  • No. 17 (Super)
  • No. 18
  • No. 19
  • One-Star Dragon
  • Super One-Star Dragon
  • Oob (GT)
  • Super Oob (GT)
  • Pan (GT)
  • Piccolo
  • Piccolo, Fused with God
  • Raditz
  • Recoome
  • Ribrianne
  • Roasie
  • Saibaiman
  • Slug
  • Slug, Giant Form
  • Spopovich
  • Tapion
  • Tenshinhan
  • Toppo
  • Toppo, God of Destruction
  • Trunks (Kid)
  • Trunks (Kid), Super Saiyan
  • Trunks (Melee)
  • Trunks (Melee), Super Saiyan
  • Trunks (Super), Super Saiyan
  • Trunks (Sword)
  • Trunks (Sword), Super Saiyan
  • Trunks, Super Saiyan Grade III
  • Future Trunks (Super)
  • Tullece
  • Turtle Hermit
  • Turtle Hermit, Max Power
  • Vegeta (Z-Scouter)
  • Vegeta (Z-Early)
  • Vegeta (Z-Early), Super Saiyan
  • Vegeta, Super Saiyan Grade II
  • Majin Vegeta
  • Vegeta (Z-End)
  • Vegeta (Z-End), Super Saiyan
  • Vegeta (Z-End), Super Saiyan 2
  • Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
  • Vegeta (Super)
  • Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan
  • Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God
  • Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
  • Great Ape Vegeta
  • Baby Vegeta (GT)
  • Super Baby 1 (GT)
  • Super Baby 2 (GT)
  • Great Ape Baby (GT)
  • Vegetto
  • Vegetto, Super Saiyan
  • Vegetto, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
  • Videl
  • Whis
  • Yajirobe
  • Yamcha
  • Zamasu
  • Merged Zamasu
  • Merged Zamasu, Half-Corrupted
  • Zarbon
  • Zarbon, Transformed

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.

As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.

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“Dragon Ball Super Divers” One-Shot Manga From Toyotarō Coming in V-Jump’s December 2024 Issue
Published by 25 September 2024, 2:54 PM EDTComment

This week’s November 2024 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine reveals that next month’s December 2024 issue will contain a special one-shot manga by Toyotarō in support of the forthcoming Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade game:

話題のDCGをとよたろう先生が描いた特別読切漫画を掲載だ!!

A special one-shot manga drawn by Toyotarō-sensei about the hot new digital card game will be published!!

The November 2024 issue notes that the Dragon Ball Super manga — itself also by Toyotarō — will be off again next issue. This will mark the seventh straight issue since the manga went on hiatus following chapter 103 in the May 2024 issue (released back in March).

The December 2024 issue of V-Jump hits Japanese shelves 21 October 2024 for ¥650.

While other artists such as Yoshitaka Nagayama and Yūji Kasai have contributed manga adaptations of Dragon Ball video games before (primarily in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine), Toyotarō contributed a special one-shot manga for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 alongside the game’s launch back in October 2016. In Japan, the chapter was included within the game’s guide book, while internationally the chapter was included within a special “Time Patroller’s Guide” booklet accompanying the game’s Collector’s Edition.

Dragon Ball Super Divers is a forthcoming physical and digital card-based arcade game, effectively replacing the existing Dragon Ball Heroes run from the last 13 years. Super Divers was announced last May and is currently in development.

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Translation Update: “Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!” Image #82
Published by 23 September 2024, 4:02 PM EDTComment

Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his September 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Toki, the main character from the Akira Toriyama one-shot Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe.

Toki
It was just a one-shot, but Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe was like one of those chapters in a serial that just make your heart dance with joy! I sometimes find myself having these wild fantasies, wondering if Sensei ever thought about maybe continuing the story…

It was never released in a collected edition, so I really treasure my copy of the issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump where it was published!

Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe is a single-chapter (“one-shot”) manga by Akira Toriyama which ran in the 2010 No. 50 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 15 November 2010 in Japan, as part of the magazine’s “Top of the Super Legends” series.

Merluza, the fortune-teller and self-styled “Venusian” from Kintoki, makes a cameo appearance in the bottom-left of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman‘s fifth chapter title page:

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.