Full color Dragon Ball manga coming to North America

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While the “Full Color Comics” have quietly — and hopefully temporarily — moved to digital-only in Japan after the Saiyan and Freeza arcs received print editions, Viz has been charging along chapter-by-chapter with their own digital release in Weekly Shonen Jump. The company announced plans for an English print version, and while we received pretty much every important detail at that time, there was one minor aspect still up in the air: the cover art!

Online listings have started adding what appears to be final cover art, and it looks as if Viz will be going with a straight port of the original Japanese covers:



We still do not know, however, if Viz will be porting some of the great Akira Toriyama Q&A material that was originally printed in the Japanese versions.

The first volume of Viz’s “Full Color” comic edition of Dragon Ball is due out 04 February 2014 for $19.99 and will cover original Dragon Ball chapters 195 to 211. The second volume will follow suit 01 April 2014.

Thanks to several folks for passing along the info!

Source: Kanzenshuu

I much rather buy this than the shitty new Blu-ray sets.

So by full color Dragon Ball they mean DBZ, not DB?

It was never called Dragon Ball Z when the manga started out. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are basically the same series in the manga. But once they started making the second half of the manga series into an anime, they added the Z at the end. Because they realized how much the Dragon Ball manga has evolved.