Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 20 Paperback – May 31, 2005

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I just love the dragon ball series so much. I just wish it continued. Everybody should read this manga more often.

Great reading great price

Dragonball Z is the best manga series ever! Akira Toriyama is an awesome dude! If your a new fan i recommend you start at Dragonball Vol.1 and see why this series has been loved by many worldwide!

And so, the end of the Dragon ball manga begins in America, seriously could they go any slower? 22 years is a long time to wait for one comic book to end.Anyway 3/7 (3 in the original Dragonball, 7 from Viz/FUNI) years have passed since the end of Cell, the death of Son Goku, and the birth of Son Goten.A brand new adventure begins as well, The Best In the Heavens Tournament (a pun on Tenkaichi Budokai, which means Best Under the Heavens) and Son GOten and Trunks Briefs' adventure to go to the top! And get enough money to buy tons of toys! Gohan also meets his destiny, a superhero disguise and... Mr. Satan's daughter?!? Gohan trains for the Tenkaichi Budokai after learning that his father is coming to Earth.While balancing school and training Gohan starts fighting crime. After Chi-Chi learns about the prize Gohan drops school and begins training with Goten.According to Viz Goten gets to skip Elementary School, in reality Goten isn't even in pre-school.Gohan and the toddler begin training with Videl Satan, who learns Gohan's secret identity. And Gohan and Videl slowly start falling for each other, only took them like, what a freaking week for them to fall in love.The next volume Goku comes! So buy this for collection and connection. You definently have to buy the next couple of volumes.Here's some info on the last fewVolume 21: Son Goku, Son Gohan, Vegeta, and the Supreme Kai break into Babidi's ship. Son Goku and Vegeta start their battle!Volume 22: Son Goku and Vegeta battle it out, Goku realizes every punch, every kick, ticks down to Earth's doom. vegeta than realizes his mistake and takes actions into his own hands.Volume 23: The battle continues.Volume 24: Goten and Trunks need to learn how to fuse quick!Volume 25: Gotenks and Mystic Gohan fight Majin Buu in his new form. The battle starts looking even more hopeless when Gohan fights all alone.Volume 26: The final battle! Son Goku needs to find somebody to do fusion with! It's the only way to defeat Majin Buu with the combined chi of Gohan and Gotenks! The rescue mission begins and fails! Son Goku and Vegeta must defeat Buu or else the universe is doomed. However the two Saiyan's have some allies behind them. More like 7 million allies!

Picked up volumes 20-26 in a single order because they cover the entire Buu saga. The manga is fine outside of a few names being spelled wrong (like Djinn Boo instead of Majin Buu, Kuririn instead of Krillin.)My 6 books shipped in a single paper envelope rather than a box, hence the 3 stars. Somehow the pages were dry and uncreased despite the package being left on my snowy porch. Obviously other customers might not be as lucky and their books will probably show up damaged.

I’ve noticed since the start of the series how little there is in the way of placing the characters within the semi-real world environment, seeing what their everyday lives are like when they’re not saving the world. For the most part the series has been our hero Goku and his friends fighting the latest villain. It’s never bothered me because the stories are so good and you don’t really need to see how Goku or whoever will interact with ordinary civilians. Well, Akira Toriyama decides to address that with Son Gohan in this volume and I hope he doesn’t do it again!It’s been years since Cell was defeated and Son Goku died, and Son Gohan has grown up and become a young man, going to high school (he always wanted to be a scholar, not a fighter). Because, for contrived reasons, the world thinks Hercule saved them from Cell, they’ve renamed his home city Herculopolis (in the original manga, Hercule is called Mr Satan - does that mean Herculopolis was originally called Satan City or something?). Goku, Gohan and everyone have to remain hidden because of Superman reasons but Gohan still does some light superheroing as the secret Golden Warrior (his guise when he turns Super Saiyan).The first half of the book has an Ultimate Spider-Man vibe to it as teen Gohan has to juggle school life with his duties as the Golden Warrior and then later as Saiyaman, his other alter ego. There’s also some weird Amazing Spider-Man movie moments like when he plays baseball for the first time and jumps 30 feet into the air, hovering while holding the ball, and then later gets a baseball thrown in his face at full force and it doesn’t even faze him in the least, and no-one says anything. Oh and the Golden Warrior looks identical to Gohan, wearing the same clothes, except he has yellow hair. Did no-one put any of this together? New kid Gohan shows up the same time as the Golden Warrior does AND Gohan can fly and is invincible - duh, maybe they’re the same person?I didn’t hate the Gohan half the book, I just thought it was dull. I can see Toriyama was aiming for comedy in some parts but it was a total flatliner. And mixing in real world people with superheroes like Gohan really didn’t work - that’s why he’s never done it before, because it doesn’t make any sense that the real world people would be that stupid. Except for Videl, Hercule’s daughter and obvious love interest for Gohan, who figures it out and demands Gohan teach her how to fly, etc. Well, at least Toriyama’s trying to include some strong female characters in the series.The second half of the book is taken up with training for another Strongest Under the Heavens tournament. If I didn’t know Buu was on the way, I’d say this series should just end - Toriyama really hasn’t got anything left and is running on fumes at this point. New characters abound: apparently Goku left behind another son, that he didn’t see before he died, called Goten, who looks identical to Son Goku as a kid. Also, Kuririn hooked up with #18, the android/cyborg/whatever chick (the guy’s options are limited, he has no nose!) and they had a kid: no name, because who cares? No idea how they accomplished that either. Kuririn also grew his hair out which is just weird to see.I suppose it’s cool that Goku’s back from the dead for the tournament and Goten and Trunks’ inevitable match will be fun but when the group arrive at the tournament, Piccolo says something that sums up how I feel about Dragon Ball Z at this point. Goku says “The stage is bigger than before” and Piccolo says “but the soul is smaller”. By this volume, DBZ is hugely popular but nowhere near as good as the earlier books as if becoming bigger has taken something intrinsic away from it.This volume is a slow read because so much of it is boring and it’s hard to get excited about seeing our heroes fight one another for the umpteenth time for nothing other than money (maybe again Toriyama’s commenting on the popularity of the series as a money-making machine rather than art?). Volume 20 is definitely one of the weakest DBZ books.

was disappointed seeing this volume damaged at the front cover