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Total Dragon Ball Z

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book is so cool.

It has BIOS for more than 300 characters! Many of whom I'd never heard of.

There's also storylines for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT, which we haven't seen yet in the U.S. There's a funny section on who'd play who if the U.S. made a movie on DBZ. Info on Super Saiyan evolution, and a ton more.

The graphics are good too, and you get free 3D glasses.

Hi DBZ fans! If you're looking for a magazine with tons of articles, lots of pictures,bios that last twenty pages, and an extra bonus section, you just hit the jackpot. To brief you on DBZ, it's about alien races, advanced technology and the good old fight scenes. I can't tell you all of it, but watch five episodes and learn away. It's got a 3D section, but be careful not to lose the glasses.It tells about the confusing stages of the Super Saiyan (or saya-jin) and gives summaries so that you don't have to wait until reruns. Do you get Goten and Gohan mixed up? Not after you're done reading this. Do you forget who can use the Kamehahmeha wave? Not after you read this. After I read this magazine, I knew so much about DragonballZ my friends were jealous. Seriously. If you want to be admired for being a DBZ genius, this is perfect. If you like the card game but it confuses you, buy this. And if you just like the pictures, this is also perfect. So it's perfect no matter what I review so just Buy it! Trust me, I'm a fan.

Pojo (the people who made this book) really outdid themselves. This book has a two sentence title for every episode. It tells you the 4 forms of the Super Saiyen, a lot of full episode summarys, and about Dragonball GT (the sequel to Dragonball Z). If you like DBZ, you should read this book for a lot of information. Oh, and it also has a description for every single character.

As a previous viewer stated, this really is nothing more than a glorified magazine.I've gone throuh it, cover-to-cover, and I'm wondering if these people have actually SEEN dragonball z. There are numerous problems with it. Errors, mispellings, innaccurate information.

Let's start with the errors. I'm convinced that the authors are little more than American DBZ viewers who have seen a Japanese episode once or twice. The information looks like it was copied directly from a website, complete with mispellings and all. The "biographies" are short, and rarely state anything meaningful or interesting ("Bra is the daughter of Vegeta and Bulma"). Yet another problem : Is it just me, or do poser magazines struggle to get real images? Numerous (100+) of the images in this book are terrible screenshots that are blurry, fuzzy, or grainy (Many so terrible you can hardly make out what it's a picture of).

The synopsis of Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT is not very good either. The author's have a rather snobby view of American fans and a high view of themselves who have, quote, "Seen the REAL version [of DBZ]". Pojo, get off of it. Not even the card game guide is good, with poor strategies and being very outdated. I'm not even gonna start on the pathetic 3-D images thing.

That said, I really do praise Pojo for trying. It's much better than anything Becket or some other magazine company has tried to put out. However, hopefully they will revise it, knowing that DBZ fans are one of the most difficult to please.

Here's the bottom line, for the type of people who would spend $9 on a magazine, I think they will be very pleased. Kids/Teens who are fans of the English version of Dragon Ball Z and are not picky about tiny details will be satisfied. I'm just warning those would consider this a valid source for information. In short, information accurate enough to satisfy those who don't know better, but not on par with some of the stuff that can be found on the internet.

This is one of Pojo's early Dragon Ball Z Books.

Here's a quick summary of what you'll find inside:

Dragon Ball Basic - Everything you wanted to know about Dragon Balls

Dragon Ball 101 - A summary of the manga (comic book), which differs slightly from the TV show.

DBZ - Episode summaries of the first 137 TV shows.

DBGT - History & Summary

Video Game Reviews

Collectible Card Game information

and about 40 pages of Bios. It's 128 pages of fun reading.

this book is great.it tells you about things you normally dont see in other dbz magazines.first off,the character bios.some may
be short but there just as good as any.why,theres 329 of them.
it also explains about all the sayian forms.a complete episode list for dragonball,z,gt.it also has a 3d section,cool!the only hard thing is not loosing the glasses after you use them.theres
lots of cool things in this book and more!the only dissapointment was it didnt tell you about dragonballs orgin,or how akirya toriyama got the idea to create dragonball,z.overall though its a great book.

It has all the stuff you want in Dbz it even has Bios about all the people in Dragonball, DragonballZ, and.........DragonBallGT! A little too high but it has great drawing poses! Buy this if you love DBZ!

Well, can you get enough Dragonballz? Most say no. Well if you can't then this is for you. Even if you can, you'll enjoy it. I rate it 4-5 stars for great pictures, bios , and more.

This "book" is merely a glorified,perfect-boundmagazine. It is referred to as such in the"book" itself. Despite the fact that the authors complainabout grammatical errors on the DVD inserts, it is quickly obvious theNOBODY took the time to proof-read THIS book! The series Dragon Ballis summarized with so little detail that the reader is left none thewiser. The same is true of the summary of Dragon Ball GT.

Themain focus of the book, DBZ, also suffers from confusing and errorridden capsule synopses of the episodes--though not ALL of theepisodes, only the first 137--why? I don't know. The series has beenout of production for years. Character names are mixed-up fromparagraph to paragraph, not to mention the spelling of same (as if thestory isn't confusing enough. Instead of wasting so much space on 3-Dimages, a little (A LOT) more detail would have been welcome.

The"book" discusses the video and DVD releases, but doesn'teven give you a guide to the titles that have been released. Forexample, it would have been nice to know which DVDs are dubbed, whichare subtitled, which are edited, which are uncut...Nope, none ofthat.

There is also NO discussion of the differences between theDragon Ball and DBZ manga and their animated counterparts. There isno discussion of the feature films and how the fit or don't fit intothe chronology.

The final section, a "who's who" in theDragon Ball universe is well done, I'll give them that. Also the"book" features a handy list of the episodetitles.

Disappointing. I am sorry I didn't wait to see this instores first. I wouldn't have bought it.

For people who have seen the japanese version of dbz/gt they wont be very pleased with this book nice try but needs a lot more work.