Dragon ball manga nudity

Given that nudity is more prominent in the manga series, it perhaps shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to learn that gore is also increased. The Dragon Ball Z anime features several scenes taken directly from the manga but with the violence levels dramatically toned down – particularly when it comes to the treatment of background characters.

Dragon Ball chapter 9 is the third bathing scene in the manga series.

Is this a page from out of the Dragon Ball manga? I’ve always wondered if it was official artwork.

Viz manga has never been 100% uncensored. I recently got an e-reader and I do like Viz’s overall translation. So, this is a personal project. I thought I’d share my progress however.

I decided to a uncensored version (using viz digital as base). I figured this would be easier than scanning every page my Omnibus’ and then Scanning my Japanese volumes for the corrections. I’m also using the scans on archive.org for some of the original dialogue translations.

Volume 1 is almost done, just a little more. I plan on removing all visual censership, as well as restoring some of the original dialogue (“feel” instead of “peek” cursing etc.)

An example: Left: Original Right: Fix

Top:Original Bottom: Fix

Is there a decent general guide on visiual changes/dialogue? (I have a pretty good idea with popo, guns etc.)

Here are some full size pages with translation fixes

Dragon Ball Vol. 2

Dragon Ball Z Vol. 4

Malaysia ,on the other hand, has its own quirks when it comes to the translation of manga and anime into Bahasa Malaysia. For example, some Malaysian publishers took the liberty to change the names of franchises outright: Dragon Ball was changed to ‘Mutiara Naga’, which translates to ‘dragon pearls’, and One Piece was renamed into ‘Budak Getak’, or Rubber .