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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherVIZ Media Media, Subs. of Shogakukan INC International Concepts
ISBN-101421525666
ISBN-139781421525662
eBay Product ID (ePID)200371525
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions
Weight771g
Height259mm
Width185mm
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationSan Francisco
Spine20mm
Pagination217 Pp
Content NoteColour Illustrations, Black & White Line Drawings
AuthorAkira Toriyama
Author BiographyAkira Toriyama's first weekly series, Dr. Slump, has entertained generations of readers in Japan since it was introducedin Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1980. A few years later, he created his wildly popular Dragon Ballseries, which brought him international success. Toriyama is also known for his character designs for video games, including Dragon Warrior, Chrono Trigger and Tobal No. 1. He lives with his family in Japan.
FormatSewn,Paper over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
This book is good, if a bit watered down, I expected waaay more illustrations. Apparently there are DBZ illustration books, detailing from that (series) more research is required in my case. The real treat is the interview he did back in 95', he talks about his art and technique a bit more in depth than I thought he would which I enjoyed. Also comes with a fold-out poster of goku, signed and has an alternative sketch of the DB crew at the end of the series, before it was colored and inked and all of that. All in all a good find for us English speakers, who have no hopes of translating the more complete and probably more immersive texts about Akira Toriyama Sensei. The actual book itself, while my copy was slightly bent at top pages,(which I knew about before purchase) is very good quality made, scaling of pictures and specific adjoining images are grand and fit well, whoever did the layout did a good job. Honestly I was expecting wwaaaayyy more (Dragonball) volume 1-16 stuff, like all characters colored or not etc etc, but this is a good start to anyones Dragonball collection, moving past the 40 some volumes of the esteemed Dragonball/Dr. Slump creator Akira Toriyama!!
An excellent product for any fan of Jump, goes into detail about dragon ball and dragon ball z to GT, though it pre-dates super its still a well made book.
would recommend this book!
though remember its orientated like any Japanese book so read it back to front!