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If this weekend's release of Dragonball: Evolution has left you in the mood to look up some similar manga and anime,…

Before there was Dragonball Evolution, there was Akira Toriyama's crisp, colorful art. His work seems taken from…

Yes. No. Sort of. Many of the stereotypes about Dragon Ball come not from the original manga but rather from the…

In Japan, the original manga is, and always has been, Dragon Ball. (The original Japanese title is the phonetic…

In its original form, Dragon Ball is a manga (Japanese comic) written and drawn by Akira Toriyama from 1984 to…

The quick answer is: (1) yes, (2) both and (3) as long as your definition of "science fiction" isn't too…

The movie Dragonball: Evolution opens Friday, and complaints among fans make the arguments about Watchmen look like…

With any movie adaptation of a popular story, there are criticisms. One fairly thorough list of differences between…

Silly names, usually involving foreign words, are a trademark of Japanese manga for children. It's sometimes easy…

The Dragon Balls are seven magic orbs about the size of baseballs, each with a number of tiny glowing stars in…