Posts under ‘Manga Review’

Pu’reh drives a car and Goku jams a rod up someone’s ass. Meanwhile, Bulma basically steals petrol, capsules and pants while Yamucha stands at a street corner. Those last two may look like they’ve switched jobs but in reality, it’s just another crazy edition of the Yamucha-centric Manga Review.

Yamucha Densetsu returns with its shining legacy; myself overreacting to everything in the manga. We’re now at Chapter 015 of 519 (!!), in Volume 2 of 42.
So, last time (erm, more than a half year ago) Kame Sennin blew up Mount Frypan and Yamucha somehow knew everything, ever, about the Kamehame Ha. Just like last [...]

Gyumao does a heel-face turn, Yamucha is possessed by the Exposition Demon and Kame Sennin blows shit up in the 7th edition of this Yamucha centric review of the Dragon Ball manga.

So we’re here. It’s Volume 2 of 42 in the Dragon Ball saga and chapter 12 of… FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN!? Well, I guess I’ll be skipping most of them… Especially when we get to the ‘Z’ side of the series. This is a Yamucha site (er, blog), so you can imagine the giant leaps [...]

So it’s the last chapter of the first volume of the Dragon Ball manga, chapter 11. …And Into the Fire! is the name used by VIZ, purely to follow on from the previous chapter’s Onward to Fry Pan. It’s not the same level of genius that was shown when they came up with chapter [...]

The fourth part of our manga review, and the 10th chapter in the manga overall starts in an interesting way as regards its title.
In the VIZ localisation, the title is Onward to Fry-Pan…, obviously a reference to the travels of Son Goku, Bulma and Oolong rather than our own hero. However the original title, The [...]

Dragon Ball chapter 9 is our third stop in our regular Yamucha-related manga review. Both the Japanese and Viz localisation of the manga are in agreement about the chapter title this week, much to my dismay after last week’s brilliant One, Two, Yamcha-cha! This week, our chapter is… Dragon Balls in Danger!!
This chapter is actually [...]

The second part of our manga retrospective of Yamucha arrives with Dragon Ball chapter 8, known in the Japanese tankobon as Yamucha Should Be Afraid!! and in the Viz English publications as One, Two, Yamcha-cha! which I think is just stupid enough to be funny so thumbs up to Viz there.
So, basically, it’s over. His [...]