| Title | : | Dragon Ball, Vol. 4: Strongest Under the Heavens (Dragon Ball, #4) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1569319235 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781569319239 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published October 9, 1986 |
Dragon Ball, Vol. 4: Strongest Under the Heavens (Dragon Ball, #4) Reviews
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All stars!
I loved this one! Had such a laugh at both the wonderfully funny portrayal of the fights and Goku's continued unabashed innocence and ingenuity in his improvement. My favorite volume to date. -
The tournament continues. I don't want to write that it drags on, as the story's over-the-top nature still provides a few fun moments, but I do hope things will go completely off the rails again soon!
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Fight scenes in comics are usually a bit hard to follow but somehow this series makes it work.
This was another really fun volume. It follows the tournament and has some excellent moments, as well as the usual humour.
Some of the fight scenes start to get a little long but they're cut off just in time so I never found them tedious.
All in all, more fun. Ready to move on to adventure, now, I think! -
The tournament is underway and it was fun to see some old characters back. What makes this even more enjoyable apart from the humor and action is the details Akira Toriyama went through by adding different nuances, back stories and fighting styles to all of the new characters introduced.
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It's time for the Tenka'ichi Budôkai (Strongest Under the Heavens) as Goku and Kuririn enter the tournament hoping to come out as champions. This was a fun volume displaying the silly yet impressive growth of their powers while facing just as silly opponents.
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The Tenka’ichi Budokai, or “Strongest Under the Heavens” fighting tournament is in full swing, taking up this entire book. Yamcha squares off against “Jackie Chun” (the Turtle Master in the worst disguise ever!), a couple of minor characters called Ran Fuan (a sex object pretending to be a character) vs Namu, probably the only character in the contest who has real impetus to win the prize money: so he can buy water for his dry village. Son Goku takes on Giran Kaiju and Kuririn waits for his second round, having won his fight in the last book.
Whenever I read a comic book full of superhero fighting, usually by Marvel or DC, I end up hating it or being bored with it, but I wasn’t with Dragon Ball Volume 4, though it’s basically non-stop fighting. Why? I think it’s partly due to Akira Toriyama being both artist and writer. With superhero comics, there’s usually a writer and an artist and, if you read some of the scripts to those comics, the writer will basically hand over to the artist with the fight scenes, saying something like “Wolverine and villain fight for 5 pages”, leaving it up to the artist to figure out the most entertaining way to portray that.
That method’s fine but it feels like filler more than anything because superhero comics always need fighting - the story is already plotted, we’re just watching things play out before the story resumes once the writer takes over. Because Toriyama is both artist and writer, there’s no such gap - the story and the fighting are intertwined so each fight is part of the overall narrative, meaning there’s never a pause while characters battle pointlessly before going back to the story.
At least, that’s how it seems to me!
I won’t give away who beats who because finding out is part of the fun of this volume, but each fight is interesting in its own way because of the different personalities of the characters. Goku continues to improve at an incredible pace, with his kamehameha becoming as strong as Kame-Sen’in’s already! With so much potential, who knows where Goku’s powers will end?
Volume 4 is a super-awesome, enjoyable book that I blew through because it was so enthralling. Toriyama keeps up the fun and invention of Dragon Ball while ramping up the action and drama with this brilliant fighting contest. Who will win the final round? Find out in the next volume. Wonderful stuff! -
I love a tournament arc. And this was just plain FUN! The characters are goofy, the art is soft yet fierce!
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Das große Turnier hat in der westlichen Hauptstadt begonnen und Son-Goku darf mit Kuririn als Schüler von Muten-Roshi, dem Herrn der Schildkröten, antreten. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Yamchu und Kuririn muss sich Son-Goku den unterschiedlichsten Gegnern stellen, um ins Finale zu kommen. Dabei scheuen die Gegner nicht einmal vor fiesen Tricks zurück, die es zu überlisten gilt. Neben Son-Goku und seinen Freunden tritt auch ein älterer Herr namens Jachie Chun an, welcher Muten Roshi zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht... Son-Goku ist gewillt dieses Turnier für sich zu entscheiden.
Dieser Band der Dragon-Ball-Reihe dreht sich hauptsächlich nur ums Kämpfen und das große Turnier in der westlichen Hauptstadt. die Freunde feuern sich gegenseitig an und zeigen, was sie in der letzten Zeit bei Meister Roshi gelernt haben. Während des Kampfes scheint Yamchu dem Geheimnis des alten Mannes auf die Schliche zu kommen, doch dieser weiß sein Geheimnis geschickt zu wahren. Während der Szenen wird für den Leser schnell klar, dass sich zwischen Son-Goku und Kuririn eine ganz besondere Freundschaft entwickelt hat. Akira Toriyama hat es sich auch hier wieder nicht nehmen lassen Szenen und vor allem Charaktere vielschichtig auszuarbeiten. Es macht Spaß den kleinen Son-Goku bei seiner Reise zu begleiten. Die Geschichte ist wie immer spannend, zeigt aber immer wieder humorvolle Szenen auf, bei denen man herzhaft lachen muss.
Broschiert: 192 Seiten
Verlag: Carlsen (15. Februar 2001)
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 3551732965
ISBN-13: 978-3551732965
Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 10 - 12 Jahre
Größe und/oder Gewicht: 11,3 x 1,7 x 17,5 cm -
Finally into the action that I love Dragon Ball for!! The entire tournament is full of excitement and little comedy which is fine. Still enjoying my read through!!
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I love these books! They are just really fun to read
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It's about World Martial Arts Tournament. I like battle scenes because I can go into the world of the manga. So I can read faster than other pages. I feel the time when I read battle scenes passed by fast. I like Chun VS Goku scene. Actually Chun is Kamesennin. But Goku doesn’t know that. Kamesennin wants Goku to inform that there are more strong person in the world. Consequently, Goku is defeated by a Chun. Goku want to be strong solidier.
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KAAAAA MEEEEEEE HAAAAAA MEEEEEEEE ------KAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
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Não tem como não dar 5 estrelas para cada volume dessa história! Todos os personagens são tão cativantes e divertidos, que dá vontade de abraçar! Agora, quem vencerá o Torneio de Artes Marciais??
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Goku is an eccentric monkey-tailed boy with superhuman strength and boundless energy. His life of peaceful solitude is interrupted one day when he meets Bulma, a feisty young lady on the hunt for mysterious wish-granting orbs known as Dragon Balls. Accompanied by a group of zany companions, the two team up on a grand adventure full of all kinds of intense battles, dangerous villains and whacky hijinks.
Now this was a blast of nostalgia! Dragon Ball was the first anime I ever watched as a dorky little toddler. I remember watching it every week with my big brother. I watched the reruns multiple times and owned all the Budokai and Tenkaichi fighting games. I developed a bit of an unhealthy obsession with Dragon Ball Z throughout my middle school years. While I don't like the series nearly as much as I once did, I'm very thankful toward this series for introducing me to the wonderful world of anime and manga. After Dragon Ball, I watched Ghibli, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket and dozens of others. I then went on to discover some of my all time favorite series like Berserk, Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Gantz, Battle Royale, Attack on Titan, Vagabond, Blade of the Immortal, Parasyte, Goodnight Punpun and more. Dragon Ball made me a fan of this medium and it felt great to re-experience the series from beginning to end for the first time in twenty years.
The story and characters are simple, but the series is easy to read, hilarious and wholesome in spite of the constant action. The series starts off as a raunchy, self-aware slapstick comedy full of fourth-wall breaking, sexual innuendos and surprisingly dirty jokes. This series was definitely edgy for its time considering it was geared towards a young audience. A lot of the perverted humor and gag comedy wouldn't fly too well with modern sensibilities, but it can be pretty funny for people who don't get offended easily and can handle some outdated mannerisms and attitudes from the past.
While the series does start off as a comedy gag reel, it slowly develops into a more serious streamlined plot with better written characters and villains. The story never really blooms into anything worth writing home about, but it remains consistently entertaining and fun to read. The interactions between Goku and his pals is always funny, even the way he plays around with his enemies is comical. If I remember as well as I think I do, I believe the maturity of the story and characters improve much more in the sequel series which I'll eventually get around to reviewing at some point. The original Dragon Ball ends on a great battle sequence that sets up the more serious tone of Dragon Ball Z.
My only major complaint about the overall story is the Dragon Balls make things way too convenient and removes the stakes and consequences of literally everything. If a major character dies they can just be wished back. This removes any sense of drama or tension from the battles and the consequences of the villains actions becomes moot. The series doesn't take itself too seriously and often pokes fun at itself, but the way the Dragon Balls are utilized are just a little too much in my opinion. Even comedies need a certain amount of suspension and stakes to make me care about what's going on.
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Just going to say it outright, I love tournament arcs, and this one feels like it'll wrap up fairly quickly overall (considering it began towards the end of the previous volume, took up the entirety of this one, and is going to be wrapped up in the next.) Part of that's probably due to the pacing; even if you have to make the arc last for multiple volumes, I feel like part of Toriyama's strength here lies in the fact that his tournaments remain fun and engaging, and it keeps it a fast read more than the action panels do.
Anyhow, these are the fights you're really anticipating from this first tournament in the franchise. We get plenty of humor and silliness throughout, but there are also some emotionally charged moments and a couple of heart-warming ones as well. In addition, we see Personally, I feel like this volume has been nothing but fun, and it's kept me wanting to go on with the rest of the series. (When I was younger, I read some volumes of this that a friend was collecting as they were originally released one-by-one from Viz's Shonen Jump imprint, but I know that at one point, my interest waned. Hopefully that won't happen this time around.) -
This volume encapsulates so much of what I love about Dragon Ball, especially early pre-DBZ stuff. The battles of the Tenkaichi Budokai are ridiculous and fun, pulling out booger attacks and drunken fist, fighting mid-air battles without being able to fly and instead shifting your form in the air to dodge attacks. Chapter 42, "The Big Fight", is maybe my favourite thus far in the series. Kuririn and Jackie Chun start their fight, a crack of lightning happens, and then they spend the rest of the chapter explaining to the audience what happened in the mere seconds that they were moving so fast the regular people (and us readers) couldn't see. And what did they do with this superhuman speed? Booger blasts, roshambo... oh and some flips which, to reenact, they have to get the referee/announcer to hold them in the air. It's a work of genius with some of the most inventive and hilarious fighting approaches.
And of course we get Goku's matches, featuring bravado and trash talk, inventing new fighting techniques on the fly, and some physics-defying ridiculous ass-pulls to make it all work. And the motivation of "Jackie Chun", who isn't a villain or even really an antagonist but still very much an opponent, is beautiful. This whole saga/arc is a feast for the eyes, densely packed with new tricks, sharp perspective changes, and equal parts gripping fight scenes and hilarious gags. -
Really enjoyed this one. Its basically the continuation of the tournament and we have Yamcha take on Jackie and we find out who he really is and its not surprising. Yamcha loses as expected but then its Krillin vs Jackie san and the fight is epic and we just see how far Krillin has come in this short while. But the match goes as expected. The main fight between Goku and Gilan was funny and then vs Namu, it was just showing how powerful Goku really is. Namu's backstory is also so hard hitting when you learn he was just a guy who wanted to buy water for his villagers and Jackie helps him ut and reveals his identity and just shows how good he is. And then the fight between Goku and Jackie happens and its hilarious and fun lmao. The way he imitates is astounding. Toriyama keeps getting better and better. Its epic martial arts with that light humour too.
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The Strongest Under the Heavens Tournament continues in Volume 4! Familiar face Yamcha faces the elusive Jackie Chun and is quickly K'O'd. The competition is tough when there's an entire village at stack with Namu but Goku strategies and is victorious. Kuririn puts up a decent fight against Jackie that befuddles the on-lookers but is unfortunately taken out by the older man. Than it's Goku in the finals and the two are evenly paired.
Watching fights is much more enjoyable via anime, but the shortened versions of the fights in the manga weren't awful either. It was nice to see Goku try to problem-solve and even Kuririn grow as a fighter in these short chapters. Ends with the cliffhanger in the middle of the Goku vs. Jackie fight. -
I always have so much fun with these Dragon Ball comics. I find it really refreshing the way the characters are all so basically good at heart, and the way all the monsters and freaks and humans live together in harmony. The tournament is also a great gimmick for the comic, and it allows for even more interesting scenarios. I switched while reading this, from the 4th volume of the Tankoban to the 3rd volume of the slightly larger Kanzenban volume, though the chapters still roughly align with this 4th volume.
この漫画はいつも楽しい。天下一武道会がめっちゃ楽しい話コンセプト。世界の化け物やヤバいキャラクターがすごい
[Note: This review is for the 3rd Kanzenban volume, which isn’t listed on Goodreads, but roughly aligns with this fourth manga volume] -
Yamcha has figured out that one of the competitors in the tournament is actually Master Roshi in disguise. Goku and Krillin were getting too strong during training and Master Roshi wanted to make sure they didn't easily win the tournament and become cocky and lose interest in learning.
It is the final battle and Goku and Master Roshi are pitted against each other. Master Roshi is definitely in trouble.
Even though I think Master Roshi is a perv, I thought it was sweet that he gave that water varying capsule to the Indian fighter who was at the tournament to raise money for water for his village. -
81/100 (2018 Reading Challenge)
More Dragonball goodness, never fails to bring a smile to my face. The tournament arcs are some of the best also. At this stage it is still very much a gag manga rather than more action based of Dragonball Z. But the fights at this stage are still enjoyable to read. Do not think if drags at all. Enjoyably paced & although I enjoy the massive fights to come, I love a big SJ many chapter fight, these ones are pretty quick. With there longer ones being the ones you’d expect. Be disappointed if the big fight WAS over in a few panels. Onto next one in my Dragonball re-read. Ka....me...ha...me...... -
Pertandingan babak delapan besar Tenkaichi Budoukai berlangsung seru. Kedelapan peserta mengeluarkan jurus andalan mereka masing-masing. Kuririn dan Goku menjadi bintang di arena pertandingan karena mereka peserta paling kecil namun sudah menguasai jurus beladiri yang hebat.
Akira Toriyama berhasil membuat pertandingan ini tidak membosankan. Ia menyelipkan cerita-cerita unik dibalik pertandingan ini. Ia bahkan memasukkan tokoh misterius bernama Jackie Chun yang sudah tua namun benar-benar jago dalam ilmu beladiri. Pertarungan final benar-benar merupakan pertarungan yang enak dibaca. Jurus-jurus di antara kedua tokoh silat menunjukkan keduanya all-out. -
This arc starts to introduce some of the epic choreographed action the series is known for. It's actually pretty fun to watch their 'power levels' grow from nothing. In Dragonball Z everyone is already superhuman in strength. At this stage there's this expectation that most people are normal humans (though there are humanoid animals and dinosaurs and such), so it's really impressive the first time someone shoots into the air after someone they sent flying and engages in aerial combat. This was really fun, and somewhat (though not entirely) lighter on the misogyny.
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I remember Goku and Kuririn referencing this tournament, among others, in some of the Dragonball Z episodes from years ago. Despite never really getting into the Dragon Ball anime, I am really enjoying the manga! This volume has most of the tournament (though we still don't know who won), and I think my favorite opponent was the smelly guy - though they were all good and funny in their own right. Now I just have to see whether or not Goku is going to be able to pull out the win against his master....
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You know what I find odd? When I go to the grocery store and pick up groceries (I do the pickup thing, I don't go inside, like a peasant), they always ask me if the substitutions they made are okay, but at that point it's like, "Well, I mean, maybe I hate them, but what am I gonna do now?" I'm obviously not going INSIDE. If I was going to do that, I wouldn't be here in the first place.
This review is specifically for everyone who has ever complained that one of my reviews has nothing to do with the book and that I'm personally ruining Goodreads. -
The series is starting to get really interesting. I know that the characters can be really dumb at times but it's hilarious. I love the fight scenes and the only thing that I don't like is how monotonous some of the fights can be. If it feels like I'm watching the same thing over and over again I'm gonna get annoyed. It only felt like that for a few minutes before something new would start though. This is a pretty good volume. It's my favorite one so far.
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This one volume was less enjoyable for me than the previous three. Why? Goku doesn't go through any struggle at all and is strong af just because. It was already stablished he was really strong but being on par with Kame Sennin? Being able to copy all the movements and powers from his adversaries even though he only saw it once? That's BS. I'm really considering droping DB, not only for this volume, of course, but I just had really high spectations for it and it really isn't paying off.
