
With unusual candour for a top mangaka, on the eve of the release of the first animated Dragon Ball movie in over a decade series creator Akira Toriyama has taken some time out to bash the notoriously bad Hollywood adaptation he authorised.
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Japanese quizzed about why it is they loathe Hollywood’s unending stream of atrocious anime and game adaptations (the likes of Dragonball and Street Fighter naturally being top of the list) provide reasons even the crazy foreigners responsible may be able to comprehend.
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Dragon Ball seems to have been granted a temporary reprieve from further violations, for the new project has been denied in totality by its supposed scriptwriter.
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Dragon Ball fans have firmly buried their collective faces in their palms with the realisation that 2012 may well be the end, for their precious manga if nothing else – a second Dragon Ball movie adaptation is apparently in the works.
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Japanese women in their twenties asked what shonen manga they would like to see their prospective sons reading yield up a list with several interesting surprises.
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Japanese asked which anime and manga had the greatest influence over them as children, shaping their lives and aspirations, gave a surprisingly uniform set of answers, with titles such as Gundam and Fist of the North Star evidently doing much to shape the minds of entire generations…
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The latest Dragon Ball video game, Spike’s Dragon Ball Raging Blast, is set for a multiplatform PS3 and Xbox 360 release on November 12th in Japan.
Observers have been quick to note some significant graphical differences between the two versions…
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When 10,000 anime and manga fans were asked “who is the strongest character?”, the results were rather predictably dominated by a lengthy list of characters from top shonen manga…
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A recent survey of battle manga fans reveals just which action manga have the hottest and most manful battles.
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Idol and occasional seiyuu Aya Hirano will be playing the role of デンデ / Dende, a young Namekian, in upcoming episodes of the newly remastered Dragonball Kai.
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A recent poll by Oricon asked manga fans to rank their favorite manga supporting characters, with Dragonball’s Krillin and One Piece’s Zoro taking the 1st and 2nd spots, respectively.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: May 3, 2009 03:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Dragonball, Evangelion, Haruhi, Lupin, Rankings, Video Gallery

A survey of emerging on 2ch, which asked which characters respondents would most like to have sex with, yielded some surprising results; predictable favourites do feature, but some may come as unexpected.
The top 10, along with suitably erotic illustrative material, is visible below:
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