http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/ Updates to Rachel "TripleRach" Oliver's Dragon Ball pages. Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:18:00 GMT en-us http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=270 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=270#comments http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=270 Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:18:00 GMT timeline pages. I was surprised to read that I stopped at 19 in the last update, because I only started at 22 this month. I must have done 20-21 last year. Either way, I plan to quickly go over the previous pages again to check for inconsistencies, because three years is a long time. But I wanted to get this online first, since I set a deadline of April 18th, and somehow I actually made it. Even in JST!

So I don't want to make any big promises, but as I worked on this, I was simultaneously working on something else that you could call future-proofing. It will make more sense to explain it once I get to the character bio section again, so stay tuned, I guess.

In the more immediate future (all four of them), I have some images to edit, and/or some weak attempts at text alternatives to make. I may even do newer, slightly better scans, but it's still the same scanner I used 7-8 years ago to do the first versions, and I'm not interested in replicating the book in pristine quality. Tackling this issue is the next thing on my agenda after some other site projects, but I can't say how soon that will be. Definitely before 2018, at least. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=177 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=177#comments http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=177 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:19:00 GMT poster done seemed questionable. But it has indeed been revised, along with Toriyama's message, the table of contents, and the first few pages of the timeline. The last revised page is 19, as conveniently marked by the last horizontal ruler on the webpage. I kept falling asleep working on page 18, probably because the official companies have made me grow tired of Saiyan history.

As far as Dragon Ball webmasters go, I feel like a deadbeat dad. But I'm trying to clean myself up, and I've gone back to work now. Even if it's only a few pages a month, I'll give you kids as much support as I can. Odds are I'll at least finish the timeline and re-do some of the images next month, but I'm still trying to get back on my feet and re-discover the best way to hold this giant book at my desk. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=160 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=160#comments http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=160 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:54:00 GMT anime version of the 21st Budoukai. One of the main reasons for the delay is that I was timing myself, in the hopes of figuring out a reasonable pace to update regularly. And while I did figure out what a reasonable pace would be, I also realized I can't justify the time required for it right now.

As you may have read elsewhere on the site, one of my biggest priorities right now is improving my Japanese. While reading and watching raw Dragon Ball is helpful toward that goal, all the writing and analyzing in English I do on the summary pages kind of eclipses all that. This doesn't mean the project is dead; it just remains on the backburner. Which brings me to the other half of this update.

After all of the above happened, I realized it's finally time to resume my guidebook translation project. Starting with something new to the site: Shen Long Newswire #7. I actually had the bulk of this done in 2008, but editing images for it (which I didn't even use now) was extremely tedious, and then the whole guidebook project fell into the cracks before I ever got back to it. Although I'm still not perfect, I have improved considerably since 2008, so this is much better than anything you would've gotten back then anyway. I ended up revising and/or correcting pretty much every line (aside from the interview, which I revised last year, so I barely touched it this time).

On that note, before I start on any new pages or sections, I really, really, really need to re-do the stuff I did before. I have no idea how long that will take, but the rough plan is to update monthly with however much I can. So this time I'll be timing myself more publicly, and we can figure out a reasonable pace together, I guess. So expect something or other ("Daizenshuu 7 Poster Revised!") around September 15th.

And with this update, I can finally implement the new site news blog into the Dragon Ball section, so you can leave comments and whatnot. If not for the semi-urgency of getting that implemented, I probably would've waited until I had all my old guidebook stuff revised. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=21 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=21#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201203291401 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:01:00 GMT
But on that note, this update does feature something from the 80s: improved summaries for Chapters 32-54, including additional analysis and whatnot. I wanted to have the corresponding anime summaries done too, but I haven't had time to do them yet. I guess it's fitting that this is manga only, all things considered. I don't want to make any promises about when the anime summaries will come, but if it takes too long, I'll try to add some other kind of bonus to go along with it.

Also, yes, I do know about the new Episode of Bardock pages, and I've had the V Jump issue with them for weeks already. EoB makes me feel like Sideshow Bob stepping on all those rakes. But I'll get to it in the near future, after more 80's stuff, probably. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=22 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=22#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201202101049 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:49:00 GMT Episode of Bardock anime. I wish it was just a simple copy+paste job from the manga summaries, but there were tons of tiny changes, and a few larger ones too. On the bright side, Ipana was voiced by Masashi "Andy" Ebara. Yes, that Andy. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=23 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=23#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201108251653 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:53:00 GMT Chapter 2 and Chapter 3! That's the whole mini-series, so I can stop spending crazy import money on V Jump issues for the time being. And now I can get back to working on stuff from the 80s. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=24 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=24#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201106282016 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:16:00 GMT too large, for copyright reasons. But there's a good chance I'll go larger and/or add more per page in the future, once I figure out how I'd want to implement that stuff (in-line images? fancy gallery thing?). I'd also like to do the same with the manga pages, but for the time being I can't use my scanner. (A reverse of the old days where I could scan but not do screenshots!)

Second, in addition to the two screens, I've (finally) fleshed out the miscellaneous section for the first movie. And third, I've added more to the terminology page. Not more people names, but place and thing names. Still not going past the revised/new summaries with it, or else that page would be the only thing I ever do.

On that note, there's something I forgot to mention in the "Episode of Bardock" update. None of the name spellings are exactly "permanent" yet (which is why I haven't added them to the terminology page). I'll probably try to decide something for the new characters after the series is finished, and the old characters probably not until I get to the Freeza arc. Not that any of my spellings are necessarily permanent, because I've changed my mind and gone through massive find+replace operations more than once. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=25 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=25#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201106250026 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:26:00 GMT the first chapter of "Episode of Bardock!" If you haven't heard, this is a new three-part series that just began publication in Japan this week. It also ends up being the debut of a new "specials" section I'd been considering, although I don't have anything else to put there right now.

I took a break from working on some other things to do this, which should be ready in the next couple days. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=26 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=26#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.php#201104011518 Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:18:00 GMT detailing some of my spelling preferences. It's not complete (only covers characters that have appeared in new/updated summaries), but I've been meaning to do this for a long time. It's kind of necessary just for personal reference, but maybe you'll enjoy seeing my reasoning too. This is definitely going to be updated a lot as I work on updating/creating more summaries. I was hoping to have another chunk of those ready today too, but things just didn't work out that way.

(If you want to know a secret, a lot of the stuff in that page was pulled directly from my old DB "Articles" project that I took down years ago. I'd be shocked if anyone remembers it.) ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=27 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=27#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.html#201102262336 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:36:00 GMT
I'd love to do more movie summaries in the near future, but right now my highest priority is cleaning up the old manga summaries. Ideally there will be more updates to those soon, but I don't want to make any promises eight days before a new Pokemon release. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=28 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=28#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.html#201011280504 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:04:00 GMT
There have also been some technical changes that results in a lot of new URLs, but everything should theoretically redirect automatically. You can read more about it on the site's main page in the near future, and let me know if anything's horribly broken. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=29 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=29#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.html#201006031603 Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:03:00 GMT someone else's 25th birthday today. Eight years ago, that someone celebrated their 17th birthday by summarizing up to Volume 17 of the manga. Such youthful energy fades fast, apparently. ]]> dragon ball http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=30 http://magikarp46.com/news/?p=30#comments http://magikarp46.com/dragonball/index.html#201005141456 Fri, 14 May 2010 18:56:00 GMT
I've also moved and consolidated all of the guidebook translations, so now there are less pages total, but more scrolling and more angry dialup users. In the end, I think it's much easier for everyone, including me. But there is nothing new there, aside from one or two typos I happened to notice and correct. I haven't even updated any of my name/term preferences to my current ones, because there are some other translation issues to fix as well, and the entire project is currently on-hold indefinitely. My motivation to finish it recently dropped a few notches, for probably obvious reasons if you view other Dragon Ball websites, but I certainly have not given up yet.

Oh, and I've made an RSS feed for easier tracking of updates. Hooray for modern web technology! ]]> dragon ball