After growing tired of waiting for Viz to release an official English version of the Dragon Ball Full Color chapters after the Freeza arc (and indeed as it began to look more and more like they were just never going to continue with the Android, Cell, and Buu arcs at all), I decided to start my own project of creating them myself.
I began by editing the text and sound effects from the official black-and-white Viz English editions onto the color images from the official digital Japanese eBook edition to create the full-color release here. I wish I could have used a higher-resolution source for the full-color images, but unfortunately I was limited by the resolution of the official Japanese release.
I also went to great lengths to incorporate the "English" onomatopoeic sound effects as well. Please see the examples in the links below.
Overall, this project took me many months, and I plan to continue with each successive volume in my free time. I hope at least some of you enjoy this release, but please let me know what you think.
Also, if anyone knows of a better (higher-resolution) source for the Japanese Full Color arcs after this, I would love to know!
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Dragon Ball Full Color - Part 6 - Android_Cell Arc - Vol 1.cbz (439.0 MiB)
Thanks for this project!
In general Viz have a more liberal approach to translating than Steve Simmons does with his subtitles,so have you seen the good translation like MoFo Goku?
I have not. I know Viz translations aren't everyone's favorite, but the idea here was to just have a continuation of the "official" releases, even though they appeared to have stopped at the Freeza arc.
You can buy original full-color books of JPN and scan it. I will share some later with high defition( about 5000*4000) , but due to real work, we don't have time to scan all the books only a few.
Cell Arc 01:
https://drive.google.com/a/gm.ntpu.edu.tw/uc?id=1wCnPKLLvoX3JBm9EzyFylsxUN6WXJprL&export=download
The Viz Full Color books are absolutely beautiful, but it's a shame they've left it pending/unannounced cancelled.
I might just get the Spaniard version although the Viz big Full Color books are my favorite.
Thank you for this. Also a group on MangaDex started doing the OG Dragon Ball in Full Color as well, although they haven't updated in awhile, they've done 4 volumes: https://mangadex.org/title/20959/dragon-ball-full-color-edition/chapters/
For now, the plan is to just do Cell and above, since there are official releases of the earlier Z arcs already. Depending on just how ambitious I feel about getting, I have considered doing the Dragon Ball (pre-Saiyan) arcs, but the amount of time that will require is pretty daunting to think about right now so I hesitate to commit for sure.
An recommendation: use CC Samaritan. It suits better Dragon Ball that that font VIZ uses. And VIZ uses CC Samaritan too in Full Color Editions. If you want that font, you can download it from my mega acc: https://mega.nz/#F!syhFzQwK!O0KqW08RV6gBtF307Kr1wA
Also, if you want to spend money on those ebooks, I can ripp them with higher quality, since those are just shitty screenshots (assuming you got the raws from nyaa or any other free website). @Vizzou
@Vizzou @JanSilver01 I'm working on some higher quality full color manga, join me up on discord here https://discord.gg/Khdjynt for more info, I too want to see it finished in english as well.
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