Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1

This manga is an awsome book for fans of Dragonball Z. In this manga, Raditz comes to Earth looking for a sayian, which turns out to be Goku... HIS BROTHER!! If you know the storyline to this part you'll know that Raditz isn't exactly the kindest person in the world. When Goku refuses to help him destroy planets, Raditz takes Gohan, Gokus son. In the end Goku and Piccolo fight him but when Goku realises hey can't beat him without some sacrifices. Goku offers his own life for piccolo to destroy both Raditz, and Goku. The book ends with Raditz warning them about the other sayians that will come in just one year!

I'm a big fan of DB/DBZ and I just loved this book. Toriyama is the master of all the mangas ever! Viz have done a great decision by releasing the DB/DBZ books in their original reading format (Right to Left). The story is interesting, the fighting scenes have never seemed more fast-moving action-packed than in any comic book (Graphic Novel..!) I have seen, Toriyama knows the job and he does it well, his drawings are far more than well, they're huge!!! The only problem that bothered me is (not Toriyama..) the translation of Viz, words like "to", "the" and "him" are replaced with a "shortcut"(?) like "t'", "th'" and "'im", a small problem, it doesn't matter much but it's a bit annoying. besides that, Viz have done a great work in the overall, and so did Toriyama, the king. I reccomend this book to everyone, it has all in one - Comedy, Drama, Action and all the other genres that I don't know. For you DBZ fans who already seen the TV show, you havn't seen anything if you didn't see the original thing.

Dragon Ball Z Volume 1 published by Viz is in my opininon a great book, of course thats not suprising since it's by Akira Toriyama one of the greatest ever. This book tells of the beginning of Dragon Ball Z (which takes place 5 years after the original Dragon Ball). It explains many things to come and gives answers to some of the mysteries of Dragon Ball at the same time kicking off one of the greatest Manga series ever to be made. It starts off with an Alien named raditz coming to Earth and seeking out his long lost brother named Kakarot (Kakarot is the one we know as our hero Goku) ands winds up with huge twists and finishes with a Battle for the ages. Any true Toriyama should own this book. Two enthusiasic thumbs up from a Dragon Ball z fanatic! A definite score!