This was the news 20 years ago! DB movie 2 was finally getting an uncut/bilingual DVD release from FUNimation (otherwise just dub-only VHS since 1998) as part of a box set… and Dragon Box: The Movies was also coming in Japan!

Exact same hardware that I was playing this game on 20 years ago. I don’t know why I later bought an American copy of the game — it’s not like I ever played that one!

Stream archive is up on YouTube! Learned a lot of cool things along the way this time in addition to the usual release date checking (title translations, cover artists, and more).

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No this is just an old V-Jump 😂

Edited version of the stream is up on our YouTube channel! Tune in for a fun behind-the-scenes tour through some of V-Jump's 1996 issues, jotting down which manga chapters are in which issues, and more!

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Another month, another note that the Dragon Ball Super manga will be off next issue…

Maybe one last notable break is August 1993, where Toriyama talks about summer vacation plans as well as attending the Multimedia World event. Aaaaand he still only missed a single week...?!

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At chapter 323 in April 1991, Toriyama says he packed his schedule (including working on some special color pages) so he could take off Golden Week that year:

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Chapters 255 and 256 were actually the first of FOUR eventual Dragon-Ball-double-headers Toriyama pulled over the course of its serialization!

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At chapter 155 (and his Sonchoh one-shot!) in December 1987, Toriyama notes in his author comment that he's excited for his upcoming two-week-ish break:

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