By: Triumph Books Publisher: Triumph Books Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Triumph Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: November 15, 2000 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Product Description: Covers the entire spectrum of Dragonball, Dragonball Z, and Dragonball GT, including special 16-page 3-D section with 3-D glasses, character bios, cartoon episode guides, and a price guide for collector cards.
Total Dragon Ball Z This is a great book if you like Dragon Ball Z.
Really Good Informatin on DBZ This is one of Pojo's early Dragon Ball Z Books.
Here's a quick summary of what you'll find inside:
Dragon Ball Basic - Everything you wanted to know about Dragon Balls
Dragon Ball 101 - A summary of the manga (comic book), which differs slightly from the TV show.
DBZ - Episode summaries of the first 137 TV shows.
DBGT - History & Summary
Video Game Reviews
Collectible Card Game information
and about 40 pages of Bios. It's 128 pages of fun reading.
Not an extremly good book For people who have seen the japanese version of dbz/gt they wont be very pleased with this book nice try but needs a lot more work.
A nice try, but much work is needed. As a previous viewer stated, this really is nothing more than a glorified magazine.I've gone throuh it, cover-to-cover, and I'm wondering if these people have actually SEEN dragonball z. There are numerous problems with it. Errors, mispellings, innaccurate information.
Let's start with the errors. I'm convinced that the authors are little more than American DBZ viewers who have seen a Japanese episode once or twice. The information looks like it was copied directly from a website, complete with mispellings and all. The "biographies" are short, and rarely state anything meaningful or interesting ("Bra is the daughter of Vegeta and Bulma"). Yet another problem : Is it just me, or do poser magazines struggle to get real images? Numerous (100+) of the images in this book are terrible screenshots that are blurry, fuzzy, or grainy (Many so terrible you can hardly make out what it's a picture of).
The synopsis of Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT is not very good either. The author's have a rather snobby view of American fans and a high view of themselves who have, quote, "Seen the REAL version [of DBZ]". Pojo, get off of it. Not even the card game guide is good, with poor strategies and being very outdated. I'm not even gonna start on the pathetic 3-D images thing.
That said, I really do praise Pojo for trying. It's much better than anything Becket or some other magazine company has tried to put out. However, hopefully they will revise it, knowing that DBZ fans are one of the most difficult to please.
Here's the bottom line, for the type of people who would spend $9 on a magazine, I think they will be very pleased. Kids/Teens who are fans of the English version of Dragon Ball Z and are not picky about tiny details will be satisfied. I'm just warning those would consider this a valid source for information. In short, information accurate enough to satisfy those who don't know better, but not on par with some of the stuff that can be found on the internet.
I'm now know Every Thing About DragonBall Z! I thought I knew a lot about DBZ before I bought this book, Boy was I wrong! This book has over 300 Biographies! I now know every one from Unreleased DBZ movies and Characters from DBGT! I knew who Majin Buu was before two years ago! My friends were jealous! Get this book! Make your friends green (like Piccolo!)With Envy! I paid the hefty price from a local book store. Buy it, you won't be disapointed! Oh Yeah there's a funny section about who would should do a DBZ live action movie, about wich Actors should play them!
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