I know that Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are one series really but I am going off the English translated official releases so I have separated them and will do a follow-up video for Dragon Ball Z at some point ☺
Dragon Ball started as a gag manga, Toriyama was a comedy writer. Thats why you have random moments like Goku going to the moon, but as the series moves forward it gets more serious and action heavy.
One of my favorite toriyama questions is someone asked his writing process for the week and he basically procrastinated until the day before. I’m sure he had an overall plan but for him to make the small things come together so quick and make it to where he wanted is impressive
Goku and Luffy really remind me of each other like their innocence towards life and the way they just see the good in people, and they will give you the shirt off their backs I started reading this manga and watching the anime because of my older siblings so I grew up with it and I’m really sad that the author isn’t here anymore.
Amazing video as always, just a few things i'd like to add, i think is implied that Goku accidentaly killed his grandpa during a full moon. The second thing, penguin village is the place where Toriyama's previous work took place, Dr. Slump is a gag manga, where the toon force exist thats why Arale (the little cyborg girl) is super strong and can make absurd things
36:45 "One of the kids" She's Arale, the protagonist of Dr Slump, the second-most succesful Toriyama's manga. Those chapters are a kind of crossover, that's why Pinguin Village's characters don't have much of a contextual introduction here :) I'm enjoying the video by the way! I'll keep watching.
I hope enjoyed. There is something about when an author passes away. Their work becomes almost sacred, something you can hold. I look back on all the manga I have and luckily all the authors are still around. I wish all mangaka long lives, because what their drawings bring to the world is unique. I like to believe that in every eventuality Akira Toriyama writes Dragon Ball.
Lovely video as always. Did you notice that in DB Master Roshi disguised himself to get into the tournament unnoticed and in OP Luffy in Dressrosa disguised himself as Master Roshi to get into the tournament unnoticed. A clever nod from Oda.
I know this is about Dragon Ball, and even though I am not a fan of it, listening to you reviewing this series with so much investment just makes me even more excited and ready for your Attack On Titan reading vlog omg 😭🔥💚💙🤍
Toriyama was already successful when Dragon Ball started, thanks to the gag manga, Dr. Slump. And he definitely didn’t expect it to go on for as long as it did. The story slowly turns into martial arts because his editors suggestions, because that’s what was becoming popular in the 80s. It just turned out that Toriyama is a phenomenal action artist. You may know all of this already after doing some research. But I think it’s interesting. Also, another thing that’s cool is dragon ball is why we have what’s called the Big 3, One Piece, Naruto and Bleach. Because they started after dragon ball ended in 95, and Shonen needed a big series to replace Dragon ball.
Kuririn is Kuri, which means chestnut in Japanese (because his bald head) and Shaolin, because he’s a monk. And Krillin I think is just because Kuririn is so hard for English speakers to say. You say it right tho. Almost all the names in dragon ball are puns.
Dragonball as a whole is one of my favorite worlds! My favorite is Dragonball Super... Don't come at me anyone! But I can't wait to see you read more of the DB world! ❤
Gav, just know I really want to watch this but I’ll come back once I’ve finished the series myself! I’m only 3 volumes in, but I want to have them read by the 40th Anniversary in November 🐉
If you haven't heard about Toriyama's previous big series Dr. Slump, it kinda explains the humor in Dragon Ball especially the earlier volumes, cause it is a gag manga.
Goku's teacher is referred either as Muten Roshi what means Heavenly Master or Kame Sennin - Turtle Hermit. American dub kinda mixed it all together and called him Master Roshi what translates to Master Master and Roshi kinda became his name. His sister is Urunai Baba what means Fortuneteller Crone and similarly English dub decided Baba is her name. In reality we dont know either their family name nor their given names. They are never mentioned. Similarly, Kami means God and yet it became a name of another character whose name is unknown
Its great to see someone who doesnt know anything about DB and vicariously live the excitement again. Also get ready for the format or plot structure of the story to drastically shift. Im more of a fan of the original series. Thats all I'll say as not to spoil anything
so glad you powered thru the first couple of volumes and kept on reading. dragon ball is an experience unlike any other in more ways than one lol. good luck with the 'dbz' portion of the manga!
I don’t know what it is about popular anime like Dbz and Naruto just that throw me off them. But you make me want to try again maybe from the manga instead
I love seeing when someone falls in love with Dragon Ball 🥰❤. I can’t wait for you to read DBZ cause things get so much more intense and out of this world 😃. Goku hasn’t reached his ceiling yet, not even close lol 😂. The dragon balls do have a limit which you’ll find out more about in DBZ, I hope you enjoy all the adventures still to come in this series.
Loved this video! I vaguely remember the Anime from when I was a youngster and I do remember a lot of tournaments. I don't know if I will pick up the manga, but I liked getting your little overview and thoughts!
Thank you for this fun review. I agree early Dragonball starts a bit weak with regards to pervy jokes and findings its footing, but with the first tournament it gets more and more fun. I really hope you will give Dragon Ball Z a read soon as well. In my opinion it keeps its strengths (great characters, adventure, fun, easy to understand fights) but also adds some more emotions and development (especially the cast next to Goku).
Oh this is going to be enjoyable. Although I've only watched DBZ growing up, I can really appreciate what Mr. Toriyama brought to the anime and manga industry. 🙂
"Mechanical man"? 😂 Also just better known as "Android 8". "Kuririn" is the romanization if his name, but the u is often silent in Japanese and the whole R/L thing... "Krilin" is the correct pronunciation. Some names are kinda strange in the English translation tbh. Took me a long time to get used to Tenshinhan being called "Tien" or "Tien Shinhan" (where did that "i" come from... and why did they split that name into 2 words? 😂) It's a "beh" at the end of "Yajirobe", though most just say "be" I think. The rest was correct. "Ya-ji-ro-be" Fun fact: Muten Roshi is the inspiration for Luffy in Dressrosa. Obviously the beard and the sun glasses, but also the name. Lucy is the Westernization of the name. Luffy's romanized name is "Rufi", so in the original Japanese he went with "Rushi" in his disguise as homage to Roshi.
Don't sleep on Dr Slump, which was Toriyama's big hit before Dragon Ball. Dr Slump is a pure gag comedy. That's where Toriyama's true genius lies. I laugh out loud at every page.
I don’t know if you know this, but Oda actually did work as an assistant on Dragonball so it’s likely he was very inspired by Dragonball. Like how Oda switches from Water 7 to Thriller Bark, it’s a lot like how Toriyama switches from androids to monsters. I actually have a not serious theory that One Piece becomes Dragonball in the future. Years ago, before I got back into One Piece, I wanted a story that I loved that I could study to emulate. When I was in college I had a class where we pretty much studied the Matrix the entire class and I loved the idea of studying a story. Dragonball was on my list of stuff I loved that I wanted to study, but once I rediscovered One Piece it was over and I didn’t need to move down my list lol. Dragonball is great. Toriyama’s actions scenes, stylizations, lines and creativity are special qualities. Dragonball is a classic even despite its flaws. In terms of tournaments, it’s a big thing in manga, especially early manga. Saint Seiya was a big one back in the day and I think the first to do it, but tournaments in manga became very popular. A lot of people site Dragonball as the first to do it, but it’s not true. I do think Dragonball popularized it for a new generation. You’ll see it as a pretty common trope and I actually think Yuyu Hakusho has the best one. But it is a big thing in the Dragonball franchise and I do think every time Toriyama does it, he tends to try to do it differently and tries to be creative with it.
Oda never worked on Dragon Ball, but Toriyama was his (and Kishimoto's) biggest inspiration. Oda did do the majority of his assistant work on Rurouni Kenshin, and there's definitely story inspiration from that manga too (I always felt like Megumi's introduction arc is a proto-Enies Lobby).
@@mr.slinky765 yeah, I found that out after I wrote this and I wanted to edit my comment before it was posted publicly, but for some reason I can’t edit from my device right now.
about the kuririn thing: it is spelled in japanese as ku-ri-ri-n what is important here is that japanese is written in syllables, so you can only write vowels and combinations of one consonant and a vowel, the only consonant that can exist on its own in japanese is the letter N for reasons i do not know. now to how kuririn's name works: the u is silent so if you write it by latin standards it would be kririn, but telling an english speaker to pronounce that isn't going to go well, thus whoever transcribed the name for the dub made use of the fact that japanese pronounces R's kind of halfway between R and L and changed the second r into an L to make things easier for the voice actors. now why they decided to change the second i into an e is beyond me, there is no justification for that.
Muten Roshi is the old man master of the turtle school. Muten roshi means invincible old master. And in the English anime they call him master roshi. Which means master old master if you take it literally lol. Sorry for a barrage of comments! But I’ve been a fan of dragon ball for like 23 years, since I was like 7, and I know a lot about it. Hope what I’m saying is interesting lol
yeah so I just reached the General Blue Arc part of the Video, and I need to reread, I have forgotten soooo much, I mean I don't know when the last time I read it was, at least 15 years ago, I mean at one point in those years I reread the Tournaments, but not the stuff between.
You know, while I'd like you to continue onto Dragon Ball Z, I DO want to see your opinion on the abridged series as well. It's like a fandub parody that ended up becoming its own beast and, for all intends and purposes, actually elevates the source material. I legit recommend watching the abridged version for how insanely good it is, as well as being one of the very FEW series where the dub is of equal quality as the original voice actors.
Gavin, Dragon Ball Z is not a spin off, they just separated in the anime,). Dragon Ball is 42 volumes total, if I remember correctly, please read the rest
I always want to check this out but the weirdness towards women (and only women) makes me grossed out, and disappointed. I will wait for your full review before I decide lol
I know that Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are one series really but I am going off the English translated official releases so I have separated them and will do a follow-up video for Dragon Ball Z at some point ☺
Ok
The penguin village part is a cameo of Toriyama previous series Dr. Slump and Arale is one of the most powerful characters in DragonBall lore
Dragon Ball started as a gag manga, Toriyama was a comedy writer. Thats why you have random moments like Goku going to the moon, but as the series moves forward it gets more serious and action heavy.
One of my favorite toriyama questions is someone asked his writing process for the week and he basically procrastinated until the day before. I’m sure he had an overall plan but for him to make the small things come together so quick and make it to where he wanted is impressive
Goku and Luffy really remind me of each other like their innocence towards life and the way they just see the good in people, and they will give you the shirt off their backs I started reading this manga and watching the anime because of my older siblings so I grew up with it and I’m really sad that the author isn’t here anymore.
Amazing video as always, just a few things i'd like to add, i think is implied that Goku accidentaly killed his grandpa during a full moon. The second thing, penguin village is the place where Toriyama's previous work took place, Dr. Slump is a gag manga, where the toon force exist thats why Arale (the little cyborg girl) is super strong and can make absurd things
36:45 "One of the kids"
She's Arale, the protagonist of Dr Slump, the second-most succesful Toriyama's manga. Those chapters are a kind of crossover, that's why Pinguin Village's characters don't have much of a contextual introduction here :)
I'm enjoying the video by the way! I'll keep watching.
Let's go!
I think you did right to start from the original dragon ball before consuming other dragon ball media.
I hope enjoyed. There is something about when an author passes away. Their work becomes almost sacred, something you can hold. I look back on all the manga I have and luckily all the authors are still around. I wish all mangaka long lives, because what their drawings bring to the world is unique. I like to believe that in every eventuality Akira Toriyama writes Dragon Ball.
Lovely video as always. Did you notice that in DB Master Roshi disguised himself to get into the tournament unnoticed and in OP Luffy in Dressrosa disguised himself as Master Roshi to get into the tournament unnoticed. A clever nod from Oda.
The Tournaments are my absolute favorite part in that Series! I just love them!
I know this is about Dragon Ball, and even though I am not a fan of it, listening to you reviewing this series with so much investment just makes me even more excited and ready for your Attack On Titan reading vlog omg 😭🔥💚💙🤍
I've been deep cleaning today and feel sooo exhausted, this is just what I need right now.
I agree, I want those capsules as well, come on science! get to it!
Toriyama was already successful when Dragon Ball started, thanks to the gag manga, Dr. Slump. And he definitely didn’t expect it to go on for as long as it did. The story slowly turns into martial arts because his editors suggestions, because that’s what was becoming popular in the 80s. It just turned out that Toriyama is a phenomenal action artist. You may know all of this already after doing some research. But I think it’s interesting. Also, another thing that’s cool is dragon ball is why we have what’s called the Big 3, One Piece, Naruto and Bleach. Because they started after dragon ball ended in 95, and Shonen needed a big series to replace Dragon ball.
Oh and penguin village is from dr slump. Weird shit
Kuririn is Kuri, which means chestnut in Japanese (because his bald head) and Shaolin, because he’s a monk. And Krillin I think is just because Kuririn is so hard for English speakers to say. You say it right tho. Almost all the names in dragon ball are puns.
Dragonball as a whole is one of my favorite worlds! My favorite is Dragonball Super... Don't come at me anyone! But I can't wait to see you read more of the DB world! ❤
I also can't wait to see what you think about Vegta's character in DBZ
Gav, just know I really want to watch this but I’ll come back once I’ve finished the series myself! I’m only 3 volumes in, but I want to have them read by the 40th Anniversary in November 🐉
So excited for you to read the Series, Dragon Ball was what got me into Manga!
Im glad you liked it!
If you haven't heard about Toriyama's previous big series Dr. Slump, it kinda explains the humor in Dragon Ball especially the earlier volumes, cause it is a gag manga.
Goku's teacher is referred either as Muten Roshi what means Heavenly Master or Kame Sennin - Turtle Hermit. American dub kinda mixed it all together and called him Master Roshi what translates to Master Master and Roshi kinda became his name.
His sister is Urunai Baba what means Fortuneteller Crone and similarly English dub decided Baba is her name.
In reality we dont know either their family name nor their given names. They are never mentioned.
Similarly, Kami means God and yet it became a name of another character whose name is unknown
I loved this, thank you for all of your hard work!!!
Dragon Ball conceptually started off as a parody of Journey to the West (Son Goku being the name equivalent to Sun Wukong in China)
Great review of the series! Looking forward to you going through Dragon Ball Z
Its great to see someone who doesnt know anything about DB and vicariously live the excitement again.
Also get ready for the format or plot structure of the story to drastically shift. Im more of a fan of the original series. Thats all I'll say as not to spoil anything
Always admiring your amazing content, Gavin.. Loved your recent Egghead Arc review.
so glad you powered thru the first couple of volumes and kept on reading. dragon ball is an experience unlike any other in more ways than one lol. good luck with the 'dbz' portion of the manga!
I don’t know what it is about popular anime like Dbz and Naruto just that throw me off them. But you make me want to try again maybe from the manga instead
Tien's extra arms are not an illusion, he really just grew out two extra limbs
I love seeing when someone falls in love with Dragon Ball 🥰❤. I can’t wait for you to read DBZ cause things get so much more intense and out of this world 😃. Goku hasn’t reached his ceiling yet, not even close lol 😂. The dragon balls do have a limit which you’ll find out more about in DBZ, I hope you enjoy all the adventures still to come in this series.
Loved this video! I vaguely remember the Anime from when I was a youngster and I do remember a lot of tournaments. I don't know if I will pick up the manga, but I liked getting your little overview and thoughts!
Thank you for this fun review. I agree early Dragonball starts a bit weak with regards to pervy jokes and findings its footing, but with the first tournament it gets more and more fun. I really hope you will give Dragon Ball Z a read soon as well. In my opinion it keeps its strengths (great characters, adventure, fun, easy to understand fights) but also adds some more emotions and development (especially the cast next to Goku).
Oh this is going to be enjoyable. Although I've only watched DBZ growing up, I can really appreciate what Mr. Toriyama brought to the anime and manga industry. 🙂
"Where is the ceiling for Goku?" ...you missed Roshi's lesson. There is no ceiling because THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE STRONGER.
this makes me want to reread DB as well, but I am already in the middle of so many series ahhh... what to do...
don't sweat getting Krillin name wrong, the romanization used in dragon ball is insane
I used to l9ve watching Dragon ball with my son when he was younger.
"Mechanical man"? 😂 Also just better known as "Android 8".
"Kuririn" is the romanization if his name, but the u is often silent in Japanese and the whole R/L thing... "Krilin" is the correct pronunciation.
Some names are kinda strange in the English translation tbh. Took me a long time to get used to Tenshinhan being called "Tien" or "Tien Shinhan" (where did that "i" come from... and why did they split that name into 2 words? 😂)
It's a "beh" at the end of "Yajirobe", though most just say "be" I think. The rest was correct. "Ya-ji-ro-be"
Fun fact: Muten Roshi is the inspiration for Luffy in Dressrosa. Obviously the beard and the sun glasses, but also the name. Lucy is the Westernization of the name. Luffy's romanized name is "Rufi", so in the original Japanese he went with "Rushi" in his disguise as homage to Roshi.
Don't sleep on Dr Slump, which was Toriyama's big hit before Dragon Ball. Dr Slump is a pure gag comedy. That's where Toriyama's true genius lies. I laugh out loud at every page.
I don’t know if you know this, but Oda actually did work as an assistant on Dragonball so it’s likely he was very inspired by Dragonball. Like how Oda switches from Water 7 to Thriller Bark, it’s a lot like how Toriyama switches from androids to monsters. I actually have a not serious theory that One Piece becomes Dragonball in the future.
Years ago, before I got back into One Piece, I wanted a story that I loved that I could study to emulate. When I was in college I had a class where we pretty much studied the Matrix the entire class and I loved the idea of studying a story. Dragonball was on my list of stuff I loved that I wanted to study, but once I rediscovered One Piece it was over and I didn’t need to move down my list lol.
Dragonball is great. Toriyama’s actions scenes, stylizations, lines and creativity are special qualities. Dragonball is a classic even despite its flaws.
In terms of tournaments, it’s a big thing in manga, especially early manga. Saint Seiya was a big one back in the day and I think the first to do it, but tournaments in manga became very popular. A lot of people site Dragonball as the first to do it, but it’s not true. I do think Dragonball popularized it for a new generation. You’ll see it as a pretty common trope and I actually think Yuyu Hakusho has the best one. But it is a big thing in the Dragonball franchise and I do think every time Toriyama does it, he tends to try to do it differently and tries to be creative with it.
Oda never worked on Dragon Ball, but Toriyama was his (and Kishimoto's) biggest inspiration. Oda did do the majority of his assistant work on Rurouni Kenshin, and there's definitely story inspiration from that manga too (I always felt like Megumi's introduction arc is a proto-Enies Lobby).
@@mr.slinky765 yeah, I found that out after I wrote this and I wanted to edit my comment before it was posted publicly, but for some reason I can’t edit from my device right now.
about the kuririn thing:
it is spelled in japanese as ku-ri-ri-n
what is important here is that japanese is written in syllables, so you can only write vowels and combinations of one consonant and a vowel, the only consonant that can exist on its own in japanese is the letter N for reasons i do not know.
now to how kuririn's name works: the u is silent so if you write it by latin standards it would be kririn, but telling an english speaker to pronounce that isn't going to go well, thus whoever transcribed the name for the dub made use of the fact that japanese pronounces R's kind of halfway between R and L and changed the second r into an L to make things easier for the voice actors.
now why they decided to change the second i into an e is beyond me, there is no justification for that.
Muten Roshi is the old man master of the turtle school. Muten roshi means invincible old master. And in the English anime they call him master roshi. Which means master old master if you take it literally lol. Sorry for a barrage of comments! But I’ve been a fan of dragon ball for like 23 years, since I was like 7, and I know a lot about it. Hope what I’m saying is interesting lol
Rabbit on the moon is a Japanese folklore thing. It's not random.
yeah so I just reached the General Blue Arc part of the Video, and I need to reread, I have forgotten soooo much, I mean I don't know when the last time I read it was, at least 15 years ago, I mean at one point in those years I reread the Tournaments, but not the stuff between.
Haa, as a fellow OP enthusiast it is kinda funny that you point out they accomplished this incredible globe trotting goal relatively dang quick.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
This was the manga I read online than I watched Naruto anime on crunchyroll.
You know, while I'd like you to continue onto Dragon Ball Z, I DO want to see your opinion on the abridged series as well. It's like a fandub parody that ended up becoming its own beast and, for all intends and purposes, actually elevates the source material. I legit recommend watching the abridged version for how insanely good it is, as well as being one of the very FEW series where the dub is of equal quality as the original voice actors.
Gavin, Dragon Ball Z is not a spin off, they just separated in the anime,). Dragon Ball is 42 volumes total, if I remember correctly, please read the rest
I know, I mention that in the video 😊
@@GavinReadsItAll Good to know! Im just in the beginning of the video! So far so good☺️
Geekdom has done a lot of videos on the history of dragonball. Think you qould like it.
yes you need to get to dragon ball z and the anime so you can watch the best part of the fandom which is DBZ abridged 😅😂
I’ve never read it
I always want to check this out but the weirdness towards women (and only women) makes me grossed out, and disappointed. I will wait for your full review before I decide lol