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Dragon Ball Z as drawn by other famous anime artists.

japanator.com — Apparently guest artwork was included in a re-release of the manga. Some of it is pretty damn cool, and it's just mind-blowing to see how dragon ball has influenced the entire anime industry. Highlights include art done by one piece's Eiichiro Oda and Kubo Taito of bleach fame.

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  • unlimitedorb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Brings back memories...
    • gothsquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -34/+12yeah memories of waiting 2 weeks to actually see any plot development happen. And i've seen high schoolers with better art skills than what these show.
    • LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66Are they still on Namek?
    • Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22That was the drawback to DBZ (and a lot of other anime): it took forever to get anywhere in the story.
    • Ngai, on 11/10/2007, -1/+23Mirror Sites:
      http://www.daizex.com/multimedia/images/artists/index.shtml
      and
      http://www.boladedragon.com/dragonball/informacion/varios_05.php
    • Cruelapollo, on 11/10/2007, -6/+173Hey, how many Z-warriors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

      ...

      Just one, but it takes six episodes!

      I'll be here all week folks.
    • theshiz892, on 11/10/2007, -2/+26i was too young to notice that it took so many episodes to kill anybody, except freeza... DAMN that took forever! lol, it was still my first anime and one of my favorites still. good ol' toonami, i dont know where i would be with out it
    • solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Holy Freaking Crap, is it jsut me or is that Naruto Kuririn(Krillin) like the most menacing you've ever seen the little guy?

      he looks like a painted ninja turtle.


      and Shenanigans on no Piccolo or Vegita pics.
    • fullgl, on 11/10/2007, -37/+1Hey, how many Z-warriors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

      ...

      Vegeta: OVER TEN THOUSAND!
    • hbweb500, on 11/10/2007, -3/+25@fullgl

      Dude, its "9000", not ten thousand.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI
    • franksands, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually it's over 8000, as you can see in the japanese version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQEkw0iSLWo

      But for the record, the english is fantastic...
    • Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Are they still on namek?
    • RoflcopterFUEL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Loved the Bleach one the most, it really does match the style.
    • Steelfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know what? If you guys watched the old Toonami, they used to have fan art shown like once every week. These look a lot like that fan art.
  • Dog_Paddle, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2http://www.japanator.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/kenjiro.jpg

    http://www.japanator.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/hirano.jpg

    lol

    I miss being a kid.. Dragonball Z kicked so much ass
  • pmcdaniel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I wish the DVDs weren't so expensive so I can see the few I missed.
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Good thing there's always the great equalizer (piracy).
    • Gir53457, on 11/10/2007, -0/+28291 episodes

      13 movies

      2 TV specials (2-3 episodes each)

      And I'm not even counting Dragon Ball OT/GT.

      Thats a hell of a lot of anime. Comcast would never let you get away with that.
    • solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2YARRRRRR MATEY!!!!
      To ya olde pirates bay with ye!!!!
      (or isohunt v2, thank Jesus they are back)
    • Renton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just read the manga. It takes ALOT less time to get through it all. (but you miss all the cool animated fighting scenes)
    • Gir53457, on 11/10/2007, -2/+58Goku: I'm making spirit bomb!

      Freeza: I'll just slap you around for the next ten episodes instead of just ripping out your heart.

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Goku: Spirit bomb!

      Freeza: *Grunt*

      Gohan: Just ***** throw it!
    • DickMcVengeance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There's actually a new box set out that's relatively cheap for the series.
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Comcast would never let you get away with that."

      Umm... I better call Comcast and tell them to come and get me then...
  • Abjure, on 11/10/2007, -30/+12bury me
  • CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -4/+740 diggs and 2 comments and the site is dead :(
  • RShACkSUX, on 11/10/2007, -21/+3I dont need anyone else to draw them, the originals are great enough as they are. Besides, these guys are probably the ones who make all that DBZ and Sailor moon hentai
    • cragga, on 11/10/2007, -1/+14yes, thats who they are. you worked it out. good going internet detective.

      of course, it lists the series they draw next to the artists name, not that you would have read that far, you just came in here to take a stab at anime right?
    • Ivers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Boo this man. I love my manga & anime.
    • darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3a lot of famous manga artists started off drawing hentai and stuff.
      on another note, I never really liked DBZ as a kid, I don't really like the art, and it took forever for something to happen.
      BTW sailor moon and DBZ hentai suck
    • noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't the original Dragon Ball have some hentai-ish scenes? I mean hell, the very existance of Roshi classifies it as perverted.
  • SpectralSounds, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Personally, I prefer the one with the red x in the white little box. Although it seems like that artist was copied quite a bit.

    • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Don't point out it's drawn the same! They'll burn you at the stake!
    • ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30The only question that remains is why are you still using IE?
  • clink0914, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://www.duggmirror.com/design/Dragon_Ball_Z_as_drawn_by_other_famous_anime_artists/

    didn't catch the pics though :(
  • syco123, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3And this is tech news because.....
  • TomRemixed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Dragon Ball Z and Gundam were the ***** when I was 10-13. Two of the few anime shows I'm not ashamed of watching.
  • OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1sry edit
  • NenDaiKi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Budokai Tenkaichi 2 made me want to buy the DVDs. But just looking for them considering the vast number of different sets was too difficult for me to further consider the amount it would cost.

    When they've officially released the FULL set, including Dragonall, GT, and the ENTIRE DBZ Funimation dubs, uncut, unedited, completely true to the Japanese originals, then yes I will buy that sucker. As it is I am too afraid I would end up with a bunch of ***** edited BS and I can't even remember if they ever got around to redubbing the first 50 or so episodes that other company did.
    • cragga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I don't think they will ever be true to the Japanese original if you're watching the dubs, watching fansubs has made me develop quite the distaste the the awful treatment western companies give these shows. Seriously, have you seen the dubbed One Piece? Its a joke.
    • Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's not that bad, believe it.
    • hitori, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sorry, but if all you've seen is the dubbed Dragon Ball, then you haven't watched Dragon Ball.

      Cragga is right, Western companies just kill anime when it comes to dubs. Translation issues aside, at least they could get the voices to sound similar!
  • wes121593, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The Source of the Images

    http://www.boladedragon.com/dragonball/informacion/varios_05.php

    Scroll down a bit
  • guitarh3ro, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2Pokemon was the ***** when I was like 7. Yu-Gi-Oh was the ***** whan I was like 14. Now Naruto and One Piece are the *****.
    • ZennZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Now that you're... 15?

      Mom's gonna be mad when she finds out you used potty language!
  • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i use to draw dragon ball z!!! That show was the *****. I made a website for it to. I was obsessed and can probably recall about every episode (I've seen every single one atleast 3 times). Good times.....
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I like this take on anime:

    http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=148 and http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=191

    It gets to the heart of a lot of stuff that bugs me about the genre.
    • jackal27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, there is alot of crap anime, which sucks, because it means that alot of GREAT anime doesn't get recognized for just how well written and produced it is. FLCL anyone?
    • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7To be fair, there is a reason that most of the "comedy" anime sucks on toast when translated into English: most of the humor is based on puns between the Japanese and Chinese languages (i.e. an "innocent" Japanese word means something "dirty" in Chinese). I listened to an interview with a guy who worked on Pokemon and other similar anime, and his job was to make up stuff for the characters to say when the "joke" wouldn't work in English.

      I've seen subtitled stuff where the dialog is left intact in its incomprehensible form, and a sub-subtitle says something like "this phrase is humorous when told to someone holding a fish."

      That said, the people that think anything anime is like a drop of mana from God himself drive me up a wall. Point out even the most glaring plot holes, lack of narrative, or inexplicable excuses for fights, and they get all incensed. Yes, there are good anime out there, but like just about anything, 90% is crap (like the American movie industry, television, etc.).
    • 0firefly0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Chinese? really?

      Cmon... you didn't even try.
    • darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah, crap like inuyasha makes great stuff like GTO, Excel Saga, FLCL, GANTZ, Neon Genesis, the list goes on, look bad. There are a bunch of great anime and manga out there, you just have to look

      BTW I loved the Bleach joke, LOL, WTF is up with that title anyway? (though I must admit I like Bleach)
  • SilentKenshin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I'm probably gonna get dugg down by the anime fanboys. But honestly, quite a few of them looked like the regular dragonball z artwork.

    But DBZ and Gundam Wing on Toonami was the *****.
    • rocktopotomus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah. i watched them way back when, and i really was expecting these images to look significantly different. as in, with personal style instead of the same old same old.
  • Splitter402, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looks like it got overloaded...
  • nightguilt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4huh.
    almost all of those drawings are uh.. not good.
    • Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Agreed. They really aren't all that great looking, I was kind of disappointed.
  • feebie, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2All look same.
    • zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not the same, but similar. There is a lot of homogeneity in anime art styles, luckily the variety of plots more than make up for it.
  • binnis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11http://www.daizex.com/multimedia/images/artists/05-murata_yuusuke.jpg

    Bulma's a hottie in this one. If I were young Goku, I would bang the mess out of that!
  • medj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anyone looking to watch the new Dragonball Z episodes that are coming out remastered. Check them out at this site:
    http://blankevolution.com/index.php?showtopic=96
    • Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1not free...
    • medj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What you mean it's not free? All you have to do is register.
  • NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.daizex.com/multimedia/images/artists/02-kishimoto_masashi.jpg

    omg...
    The lack of Kuririn's nose scares me..
    • Waltezmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did he ever even have a nose?
    • LemonHerb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No he never had one, he won a fight early on against a smelly opponent because of that.
  • reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Dragonball Z sucks.

    I know I'm gonna get dugg down....
    • spiker611, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yarr.. to the bottom of the sea you go!

      Dragon ball Z was a great show for its time. Yes, its a bit washed up now, but new generations can still enjoy it.
  • daeyeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Extremely cool. I absolutely love the one by Mr.Bleach, fits absolutely perfect, a great blend of the two styles.
  • KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn, it's all anime. I was hoping for some, you know...awesome re-makes. Things that were done by the artists of the Civil War or Ultimate Spider-Man comics.

    :{
    • Kookami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For One Piece's 10th anniversary, Akira Toriyama (DBZ artist) and Eiichiro Oda (One Piece artist) did a short spinoff comic together called 'Cross Epoch', a crossover between both series featuring both sets of characters. The storyline was quirky and mainly just emphasised the similarity between characters from both.

      http://rapidshare.com/files/8347421/Cross_Epoch__KEFI__ver1.zip
    • Angmar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Toei also did an anime cross between OP and DB in which Luffy and Son Goku fight Enel.
  • DryerCombo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not a fan of Dragon Ball Z at all but it is cool to see some other artists draw the series.
  • camiloteram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Black cat was prob my favorite in that list.
  • randifier, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Q: How many Dragon Ball Characters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    A: Just one, but it will take him five episodes.
    • randifier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nvm.. cruelapollo beat me to it...
  • DaveManDave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i hope my body can take it..........
  • johnroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That brings back some ***** memories.
  • radda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's always great to see the hotshots of today pay homage to the guy who made the shounen genre what it is today.

    ...although Oda-sensei really needs to work on getting his body proportions right. One Piece's art has always been...bleh. Kubo's take on the characters was awesome though, I've always loved his art.
  • Allymarie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awwwww!!! this is great! I loved that show when I was younger. thanks for posting it.
    Too bad I'm a girl and none of my friends understand my secret love of DBZ.


    Btw I've always wondered about this... The 9000 thing... I dont get it. Someone break it down for me.
  • Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone else make a Dragon Ball Z website, or had an online DBZ screen name, or buy the *****-quality fansubs, or bought the Canadian-boxed action figures, or frequent the sites Vegeta Insane, Planet Namek, and Temple O'Trunks?

    Because I sure as hell did.

    My screenname use to be SNJ_Piccolo.
    • ZippidyDoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Planet Namek owned
    • VegettoEX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I may have dabbled a bit back then.... >.>
    • meritot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I may have heard of some of those sites. ^_-
  • Allymarie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wamzlee
    I get that a lot *sheepish grin*

    and yes, Planet Namek was my fav place to go late at night when no one could watch me indulge in geek land. hahahaha!
  • nexiety, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1These drawing are awesome, brings back memories. Hey, there was a link above which I went to which actually has new uncut episodes (the remastered ones). Check out the site below. It will bring back memories for some dbz fans and will also bring something new since the saiyan saga was condensed from 39 to 26 episodes.

    http://blankevolution.com/index.php?showtopic=96
  • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this was awesome and db/dbz was some good ***** to grow up to.... taught me french better than anything else (this was waaaay before it had ever been translated for american audiences)...

    Speaking of which, I don't like the way that the American version has been obvious designed for - what - 11 year old boys? The intro is terrible. they should have stuck with the original song. The voices are cheesy and moronic. Even in French, it sounds better.
  • nublet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1omg that's the coolest ***** evar! *giggles*

    and no, i'm NOT being sarcastic.
  • 3uster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1only digging this cause it mentions Oda, compared to Dragonball, One Piece does actually have a story to it
  • browwiw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1and yet they all still look like they were done by a talented but uninspired high school goth kid.
    • BlackPawn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Being the friend of talented but uninspired high school goth kids would want to drive me to in some way argue with you, but then I look at those pictures again and I really can't. Their artwork (the portion of them who chose to draw anime) is pretty much the same. However uninspired it may be, it's still damn good. And I also digg this, 'cause this made me a bit nostalgic for my DB and DBZ watching days... and laugh because I'm still a hopeless Naruto addict (the english version on cartoon network is horrible though).
    • nublet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1naruto shippuuden is off to a great start! :D
  • smoreorless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://astore.amazon.com/bestmanga-20
  • xyj2ee, on 12/04/2007, -0/+0haha!I found a new website,so many webcomics and webmanga

    Well! this are a online manga's I have found to read.. Thought I would share them with you all.

    Manga Yuedu365 - http://manga.yuedu365.com - updated often

    Now share your links!
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