Weekly Young Jump Scan
Someone who wishes to remain anonymous sent us a scan from Weekly Young Jump in high quality. There might be more to come…
Amanz points out that the Goku and Bulma photos on the bottom of the page look like they are from a poster.
We’ve also got a translation!
The world wide masterpiece that Japan can be proud of finally will make into a Hollywood movie! Many of our readers are the Dragonball generation, so we will introduce you new information in series toward the upcoming movie release in 2009 !
(a caption of Goku picture)
This is movie version Son Goku ! Goku, who is staring at a dragonball. What will he wish for with this mysterious gem?How will original manga of Mr.Toriyama be depicted as live-action? it is anticipated in the entire world.
What is Dragonball?
Though we think it is needless to explain it, we will review for the preparation of movie release. It is created by Akira Toriyama, was serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984. Strong and cheerful boy Son Goku and his adventure story captivated the readers quickly.Dragonball allways kept running on the top of the manga field. Unfortunately it ended its serialization in 1995. Its popularity is not only domestic but also other Asia, Europe and the United States, it is loved by people all over the world.
In the next hot news No.2, we will deliver you the report on the set around summer.

this is picture made me screm like a 4 year old gohan this movie is going too be awsome i dont understade why so many (fans) think it will suck .
p.s. thank you adam for the awsome site
@McKlyde: Thanks McKlyde
Why did you leave IGN man? Now I have to read that little bitch I_Like_Turtles posts now…
You had the best updates, and now there’s nothing but dumbasses posting the news now! Anyway, thanks again for the heads up
lol..this whole idea IS a BIG mistake
never crossed on my mind to watch db the movie..moreover, i cudnt imagine the look of caucasian goku doing that kamehameha thing AAAAAWWWWWMYYYYYYGOOOOOOODDDDDDD!!!!!!!
WAKE UP PPL!!!!!
not even the real japanese or any other would fits 1 of those characters!
geez dis is soo demn silly….
*sorry guys, just my 2cents dets all..im too also a db freak, dets why im so dissapointed with akira toriyama corporation
this is gonna be a shit-hole.. i don’t know if all of you are retarded or what the heck!!.. this type of movies don’t belong to america.. this type of movies must be under the support of the creators.. hollywood just destroy’s the japanese culture and ideals..
justin looks awful.. the hair totally sucks.. he dosen’t even have the body tipe.. he isn’t buff and the big plus to all of you and very important!! GOKU NEVER WEN’T TO SCHOOL!! AND DRAGON BALL ENDS WITH A FIGHT WITH PICCORO AND KILLS HIM AN SEND HIS SUN TO EARTH BEFORE HE DIES.. WHEN GOKU IS AL GROWN UP ITS iN DRAGON BALL Z SO WHY THE HECK THE NAME OF THE MOVIE ES DRAGON BALL IF HE ISN’T A KID!!.. damm it with you people.. sincerely you dont understand the real thing of this.. writers and directors of the hollywood industrie have habbit to destroy the real origins and storys of some great heroes.. so for the record
THIS MOVIES GONNA SUCK WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THAT HOLLYWOOD GAVE A GREEN LIGHT TO A JAPANESE MOVIE.. THATS WHEN ALL STRAT TO SUCKS BIG TIME.. SO DONT BE SOME JERKS AND THINK THAT THIS MOVIE IS GONNA ROCK.. PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!! THE JAPANESE CREATORS AND STAFF THEY MUST BE REAL MAD AT THIS IDEA OF MAKING A MOVIE OF DRAGON BALL.. IF I WAS THEM I’D NEVER SELL THE RIGHTS FOR IT AND SUE THEM IF THEY STILL MAKE THE MOVIE..
First off, where is Goku’s tail? Second, This actor lack musculature, even boy Goku has more chest mass than this guy. Third, Emu hair style, goku has wild longer hair! If you want a more impressive and more accurate look of the Saiyuki, Journey West, the tale from which the CHARACTER Son Goku is taken from, look at the Monkey King from Forbidden Kingdom, played by Jet-Li. Now, there is a Son Goku worth something. Now if they show him ridding the Cloud and with the Nyoibo then they might be on to something. Oh, by the way, I know Saiyans (Saiyuki!) look almost like humans, But they are aliens!. Anyway, this version of Goku is actually a mix between the Mythical Legends of Son Goku (who wears a limiter circlet) and Momotaro, the boy found in a pea pod than when he grows up becomes a Demon slayer. Coincidentaly anyone with a little bit of accumen can reason that the limiter aspect(circlet) is acomplished by cutting Goku’s tail, this reducing his powers, and the fact that the saiyan arives in a space-pod(pea pod) is contrived to replace the story device in the original tale that Son Goku was trapped in a stone for 500 years before the Monk Sanzo(Real name Genjo) unseals him. Coincidentally, if you make a comparison of the whole thing, this all looks very similar to the story of Superman, where little Kal El is send in a pod(pea pod), to earth, grows up and fights super powered villains(demons). Also the fact that there are green charaters in both sories(Martian Man Hunter in Superman, and Piccolo in DB, DBZ,) is too much for coincidence, it creeps me out! Either the Masterminds of this stories are trying to tell us something, probably about the past, long ago, or they are stealing each others Ideas. Anyway, I recommend that before you go watch this movie you read some of the Epic Tales regarding Japanese Mythology, the ones dealing with Momotaro, and Saiyuki, or watch the anime by the same name.
To wrap it up, Dragonball is an original tale, heavy with esoteric, mystical connotations based in an awesome Myth and legend. In other words, These guys have in their hands a treasure and I hope they can deliver, Else they tempt the Bodhisattvas and Buda-Kami in sending the Giant Monkey to stomp them into oblivion
Looks like shit.
@Adam: Well I know he’ll wear normal clothing during parts of the movie, they do want to make it more realistic, but I atleast want to see him in the orange gi, and maybe even fight in it. (By the way, it is written without the periods, just “gi”, I am a martial artist)
goku is too tall, where are master roshi’s glasses and shell? bulma is cute but where is her teal hair? is it just me or is one version of the dragonball impossible to tell what it is?
Good picture but I dont like Master Roshi why is not he bald?
All i have to say is its about F>>king time Dragonball the movie hell ya
All you ass holes who think you know what good is your as foolish as the makers ,goku is made to be a shitty white boy while bulma looks like hannah montana this is a head fuck of a action movie
to all the people who think justin chatwin looks good as goku, yall are fucking idiots, and must not be real fans of dragonball at all…chatwin? really? the stupid fucks who cast him must be on crack…
that is not goku’s uniform
I can tell that the direction that the writers r going isn’t the same as the manga i mean come on teto krillin who ever he is looks too tall i don’t mind james masters or mr. fat but goku looks really weak like is this guy even working out for the rolll that he’s about too play is he even growing out his hair god i know the creator of the manga must be rollin over in his grave rite now god rest his soul because it seems like the movie is going too be like mortal combat
What the hell is wrong with you people thats the most panzy assed looking goku i’ve ever seen!! he looks more like an adult gohan!! come on thats just pathetic and a major insult to toriyama’s version.
Dbz in “real” life can never turnout good. Every time i think about it it just cant wont be good…true dbz fans will agree with me
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