I've had a humble, disorganized, unnamed collection of "various Dragon Ball things" on the different incarnations of my website since March 29th, 2002, when my website was titled "Dragon Ball Daisuki." That's over eight years of running a Dragon Ball site, which is pretty rare nowadays. And that doesn't even include the "inanely written yet incredibly detailed 'Ma-jin Buu Spoilers'" manga summaries I did for an even older version of my website in Summer 2001 as a countdown to the premiere of those episodes on the American Cartoon Network. However, in my opinion, I don't have the notoriety to back up that longevity. You see, since summer 2004, I've added very little, and I've been meaning to clean up what I'd done before that. But time REALLY flew by, and suddenly many years have passed. Frankly, it's kind of embarrassing, because I'm a major perfectionist.
Now, in 2010, I've made it a point to finally put real effort into cleaning up my old Dragon Ball material and making something I can finally be proud of. I consider the biggest cornerstone of my Dragon Ball work to be my manga summaries, but it also happens to be the section most in need of clean up work. So I'm doing a half-old/half-new project, which uses my old summaries of the manga as a basis to do both manga and anime summaries, among other things that I'll add later. We'll see how things go from here, as there's still tons of work to do.
Latest DB Updates
June 3rd, 2010 at 04:03 PM EDT
25 years ago today, the 25th chapter of Dragon Ball was published in WJ #25. It featured the debut of Kuririn. I've decided to celebrate Kuririn's 25th birthday by re-adding the relevant chapters and episode. I wish I could have done more, but I'm also celebrating someone else's 25th birthday today. Eight years ago, that someone celebrated their 17th birthday by summarizing up to Volume 17 of the manga. Such youthful energy fades fast, apparently.
May 14th, 2010 at 2:56 PM EDT
Long time no update! First of all, I've edited and added a lot to the manga and anime summaries, enough that both are completely up through the entire first story arc. I've changed my mind about a lot of translations (or lack thereof) since last time, so there's also that.
I've also moved and consolidated all of the guidebook translations, so now there are less pages total, but more scrolling and more angry dialup users. In the end, I think it's much easier for everyone, including me. But there is nothing new there, aside from one or two typos I happened to notice and correct. I haven't even updated any of my name/term preferences to my current ones, because there are some other translation issues to fix as well, and the entire project is currently on-hold indefinitely. My motivation to finish it recently dropped a few notches, for probably obvious reasons if you view other Dragon Ball websites, but I certainly have not given up yet.
Oh, and I've made an RSS feed for easier tracking of updates. Hooray for modern web technology!
