This week we finish off the PS2 Tenkaichi trilogy with my personal favourite of the bunch. It's a game I spent literally hundreds of hours playing as a teen, and perhaps the most detailed, granular Dragon Ball simulation ever - Budokai Tenkaichi 3!
Still the definitive DBZ fighting game in my opinion. Incredible roster, perfectly tuned compared to its predecessors, and a story that balances accuracy and actually fun, zippy fights.
Sur Mastodon on a le #VideoGameClub où chaque mois un jeu est choisi pour être joué tous ensemble. C'était Golden Sun en février, Day of the Tentacle en mars, et ce sera vraisemblablement #ChronoTrigger en avril, en hommage à #AkiraToriyama. L'occasion de (re)découvrir un RPG culte.
Sand Land is interesting. This was a single volume, self contained story from the late Akira Toriyama. It tells the tale of the titular "Sand Land," where after a major apocalyptic event, there is limited water and the King hoards what remains, selling it to the people at high rates. There are also demons walking the world for reasons.
Enter our heroes - Thief, a sneaky and balding demon; Beelzebub, the son of the King of the Demons; and Rao, a human on the mission to find a secret water supply to the south to free the people from the King's tyrannical rule.
The story follows this trio as they travel south, run into various fights, and eventually save the day. In the process, the story rails against those who hoard resources and has some social commentary about how governments / militaries lie to their people. There is also sub-textual commentary about climate change and how certain governments treat indigenous populations and (sometimes purposefully) disregard their existing knowledge of the world after crushing them.
Overall, it's a fun story and I'm glad I had a chance to re-read this great, physical edition before the new anime / video games drop. Toriyama gave us a bunch of stories before he passed and I hope you get a chance to check out some of his stories outside of Dragon Ball.
Dragon Ball is one of the most influential shonen manga of the last 30 years. It helped inspire some of the biggest modern shonen anime such as One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach
French President Emmanuel Macron shared a framed, autographed portrait he owns of SSJ3 Goku facing Kid Buu in the Élysée Palace (French version of the white house). #AkiraToriyama was knighted by the French government in 2019 for his impact on French culture.
He really is a legend who touched the entire world.
Comme beaucoup, je m'entraînais à dessiner Son Goku quand j'étais au collège.
Est-ce que c'est ça qui m'a donné envie de dessiner ? Allez savoir ...
Juste : merci.
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As a lot of us, I drew Son Goku a lot when I was in junior high school.
Is this what gave me the will to draw ? Go figures ...
Did you know the JSL sign for Dragon Ball is literally doing a kamehameha? Akira Toriyama created one of the most iconic attacks in all of anime and manga. It sucks to see him gone so soon...
I was a #DBZ kid. I'd draw characters from the show. Recently I started watching from the very beginning with the original #DragonBall series, falling in love with Toriyama's work all over again. So this news hit extra hard.
He was influential to #artists everywhere. DBZ was the first #anime I had ever watched. It just goes to show that you should just unabashedly be yourself. Draw your goofy characters. Name them after underwear and vegetables. And have fun.