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|Dragon Ball
First tankōbon volume, released in Japan on November 10, 1985
(Doragon Bōru)
|Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial arts, Science fantasy
|Written by
|Akira Toriyama
|Published by
|English publisher
|Weekly Shōnen Jump
|English magazine
|Original run
|November 20, 1984 – May 23, 1995
|Anime television series
|Dragon Ball
|Directed by
Minoru Okazaki
Daisuke Nishio
|Music by
|Shunsuke Kikuchi
|Toei Animation
|Licensed by
|Fuji TV, Animax
|English network
|Original run
|February 26, 1986 – April 12, 1989
|Anime television series
|Dragon Ball Z
|Directed by
|Daisuke Nishio
|Music by
|Shunsuke Kikuchi
|Toei Animation
|Licensed by
|Fuji TV, Animax, Tokyo MX
|English network
|Original run
|April 26, 1989 – January 31, 1996
|Anime television series
|Dragon Ball GT
|Directed by
|Osamu Kasai
|Music by
|Akihito Tokunaga
|Toei Animation
|Licensed by
|Fuji TV, Animax
|English network
|Original run
|February 7, 1996 – November 19, 1997
|Anime television series
|Dragon Ball Z Kai
|Directed by
|Yasuhiro Nowatari
|Music by
|Kenji Yamamoto (1–95), Shunsuke Kikuchi (96–98), Norihito Sumitomo (99–Ongoing)
|Toei Animation
|Licensed by
|Fuji TV
|English network
|Original run
|April 5, 2009 – ongoing
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール Hepburn: Doragon Bōru ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was initially inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. The series follows the adventures of the protagonist, Goku, from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls.
The 42 tankōbon have been adapted into two anime series produced by Toei Animation: Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which together were broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Additionally, Toei has developed eighteen animated feature films and three television specials, as well as an anime sequel titled Dragon Ball GT, which takes place after the events of the manga. From 2009 to 2011, Toei broadcast a revised, faster-paced version of Dragon Ball Z under the title Dragon Ball Kai, in which most of the original version's footage not featured in the manga was removed. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising based on the series leading to a large Media franchise that includes films, both animated and live-action, collectible trading card games, numerous action figures, along with several collections of soundtracks and a large number of video games.
The manga series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz Manga, and Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The entire anime series was licensed by Funimation Entertainment for an English-language release in the United States, although the series has not always been dubbed by the same studio. There have been many films of the franchise including the first live-action film adaptation being produced in 1989 in Taiwan. In 2002, 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to produce an American-made live-action film titled Dragonball Evolution that received a negative reception from critics and fans; the movie was released on April 10, 2009 in the United States.
Since its release, Dragon Ball has become one of the most successful manga and anime series of all time. The manga's 42 volumes have sold over 156 million copies in Japan and more than 230 million copies worldwide, making it the second best-selling manga series in history. Reviewers have praised the art, characterization, and humor of the story. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest manga series ever made, with many manga artists such as Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), Tite Kubo (Bleach), Hiro Mashima (Rave Master, Fairy Tail) and Kentaro Yabuki (Black Cat) citing Dragon Ball as a source of inspiration for their own now popular works. The anime, particularly Dragon Ball Z, is also highly popular in various countries and was arguably one of the most influential in boosting the popularity of Japanese animation in Western culture.
Plot summary
The series begins with a monkey-tailed boy named Goku befriending a teenage girl named Bulma, whom he accompanies to find the seven Dragon Balls (ドラゴンボール Doragon Bōru ), which summon the dragon Shenlong to grant the user one wish. The journey leads them to the desert bandit Yamcha, who later becomes an ally; Chi-Chi, whom Goku unknowingly agrees to marry; and Pilaf, an impish man who seeks the Dragon Balls to fulfill his desire to rule the world. Goku then undergoes rigorous training regimes under the martial arts master Kame-Sen'nin in order to fight in the Tenkaichi Budōkai (天下一武道会, "Strongest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament"). A monk named Kuririn becomes his training partner and rival, but they soon become best friends. After the tournament, Goku searches for the Dragon Ball his Grandfather left him and almost single-handedly defeats the Red Ribbon Army and their hired assassin Taopaipai. Thereafter Goku reunites with his friends to defeat the fortuneteller Baba Uranai's fighters and have her locate the last Dragon Ball to revive a friend killed by Taopaipai.
At the Tenkaichi Budōkai three years later Goku and his allies oppose Kame-Sen'nin's rival and Taopaipai's brother, Tsuru-Sen'nin, and his students Tenshinhan and Chaozu. Kuririn is killed after the tournament and Goku tracks down and is defeated by his killer, Piccolo Daimao. The samurai Yajirobe takes Goku to the hermit Karin, where he receives healing and a power boost. Meanwhile Piccolo fights Kame-Sen'nin and Chaozu, leading to both their deaths, and uses the Dragon Balls to regain his youth before destroying Shenlong. Goku then kills Piccolo Daimao, who, just before dying, spawns his son/reincarnation Piccolo Jr.. Karin then directs Goku to Kami-sama, the original creator of the Dragon Balls, to restore Shenlong and revive his slain friends. Goku trains under Kami for the next three years, once again reuniting with his friends at the Tenkaichi Budōkai, where he narrowly wins against Piccolo Jr. before leaving with Chi-Chi to keep his promise to marry her.
Five years later, Goku is a young adult and father to his son Gohan, when Raditz arrives on Earth, identifies Goku as his younger brother 'Kakarrot' and reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人 Saiya-jin ), who sent Goku to conquer Earth for them, until he suffered a severe head injury and lost all memory of his mission. Goku refuses to continue the mission, sides with Piccolo, and sacrifices his life to defeat Raditz. In the afterlife Goku trains under the North Kaiō until he is revived by the Dragon Balls to save the Earth from the invading Nappa and Vegeta. In the battle Yamcha, Chaozu, Tenshinhan, and Piccolo are killed, and the Dragon Balls cease to exist. Kuririn and the galactic tyrant Freeza learn of another set of Dragon Balls on planet Namek (ナメック星 Namekku-sei ), whereupon Bulma, Gohan, and Kuririn search for them to revive their friends and subsequently the Earth's Dragon Balls, leading to several battles with Freeza's minions and Vegeta, the latter standing alongside the heroes to fight the Ginyu Force, a team of mercenaries. The long battle with Freeza himself comes to a close when Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan (超サイヤ人 Sūpā Saiya-jin ) of legends and defeats him.
A group of Androids (人造人間 Jinzōningen , "Artificial Humans") created by a member of the former Red Ribbon Army, Doctor Gero, appear three years later, seeking revenge against Goku. During this time, an evil life form called Cell also emerges and, after absorbing two of the Androids to achieve his "perfect form," holds his own fighting tournament to challenge the protagonists. After Goku sacrifices his own life to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by defeating Cell. Seven years later, Goku, briefly revived for one day, and his allies are drawn into a fight against Majin Boo. After numerous battles, including destruction and re-creation of the Earth, Goku destroys Boo with a Genki-Dama (a sphere of pure energy drawn from all intelligent beings on Earth) and wishes for him to be reincarnated as a "good person." Ten years later, at another Tenkaichi Budōkai, Goku meets Boo's human reincarnation, Oob. Leaving their match unfinished, Goku departs with Oob to train him to be Earth's new guardian.
Akira Toriyama loosely modeled Dragon Ball on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West;[2][3] but also redeveloped it from his 1983 one-shot manga Dragon Boy.[3] He has said that the fighting was influenced from movies by famous martial arts actor Jackie Chan,[4][5] as he wanted to create a story with the basic theme of Journey to the West, but with "a little kung fu."[6] Since it was serialized in a Shōnen magazine, he added the idea of the Dragon Balls to give it a game-like activity of gathering something, without thinking of what the characters would wish for.[6] With Goku being Sun Wukong, Bulma as Xuanzang, Oolong as Zhu Bajie and Yamcha being Sha Wujing, he originally thought it would last about a year or end once the Dragon Balls were collected.[5][7] Toriyama stated that although the stories are purposefully easy to understand, he specifically aimed Dragon Ball at readers older than those of his previous serial Dr. Slump.[8] He also wanted to break from the Western influences common in Dr. Slump, deliberately going for Chinese scenery, referencing Chinese buildings and photographs of China his wife had bought.[9] The island where the Tenkaichi Budōkai (天下一武道会, "Strongest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament", renamed "World Martial Arts Tournament" in Funimation's dub) is held is modeled after Bali, which he, his wife and assistants visited before serialization began, and for the area around Bobbidi's spaceship he consulted photos of Africa.[9]
It was when the Tenkaichi Budōkai martial arts tournament began that Dragon Ball truly became popular, having recalled the races and tournaments in Dr. Slump.[5] Anticipating that readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while planning an eventual victory. He said that the Red Ribbon Army was equivalent to the Tenkaichi Budōkai, inspired by the video game Spartan X, in which enemies tended to appear very fast. He then created Piccolo Daimao as a truly evil villain, and as a result called that arc the most interesting to draw.[5] Once Goku and company had become the strongest on Earth, they turned to extraterrestrial opponents including the Saiyans. Freeza, who forcibly took over planets to resell them, was created around the time of the Japanese economic bubble and was inspired by real estate speculators, whom Toriyama called the "worst kind of people."[5] Finding the escalating enemies difficult, he created the Ginyu Force to add more balance to the series. He added time travel next, but said he had a hard time with it, only thinking of what to do that week and having to discuss it with his second editor Yu Kondo.[5] After Cell's death, Toriyama intended for Gohan to replace Goku as the series' protagonist, but felt the character was not suited for the role and changed his mind.[5] thumb|left|The Earth of Dragon Ball as published in Daizenshuu 4: World Guide. Going against the normal convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size, he designed many of Dragon Ball's most powerful characters with small statures, including the protagonist, Goku.[10] When creating a character, his process is to first come up with their face and body type, and then the clothes while thinking of the world they inhabit and if the fighters can move around in them.[11] Toriyama said that he did not plan the details of the story, resulting in strange occurrences and discrepancies later in the series, including changing the colors of the characters mid-story and few characters having screen tone because he found it difficult to use.[4][6][7][11]
Toriyama later explained the he had Goku grow up as a means to make drawing fight scenes easier, even though his first editor Kazuhiko Torishima was initially against it because it was rare to have the main character of a manga series change drastically.[12] When including fights in the manga, Toriyama had the characters go to uninhabited locations to avoid difficulties in drawing residents and destroyed buildings. While he personally dislikes the idea of naming fighting techniques, Torishima at the time felt it would be better, so Toriyama proceeded to create names for all of the techniques, except for the series' signature Kamehameha (かめはめ波, lit. "Kamehame Wave") which his wife came up with when he was indecisive about what it should be called.[9] In order to advance the story quickly by having characters travel without inconvenience, he created the flying cloud Kinto-un (筋斗雲, lit. "Somersault Cloud", renamed "Nimbus" in Funimation's dub), then gave most fighters the flying technique Bukū-jutsu (舞空術, lit. "Air Dance Technique"), and finally granted Goku the teleportation ability Shunkan Idō (瞬間移動, lit. "Instant Teleport", renamed "Instant Transmission" in Funimation's dub).[9] Once he came up with the idea of the Super Saiyan (超サイヤ人 Sūpā Saiya-jin ), he felt the only way to show Goku's massive power up was to have him transform.[11] Initially he was concerned that the facial expression looked like that of a villain, but felt since the transformation was brought about by anger it was acceptable.[11] While talking to his long-time friend and fellow manga artist Masakazu Katsura about how there was nothing stronger than a Super Saiyan, Katsura suggested having two characters "fuse" together, leading to the creation of the Fusion (フュージョン Fyūjon ) technique.[13][14] Since the completion of Dragon Ball, Toriyama has continued to add to its story, mostly background information on its universe, through guidebooks published by Shueisha.
During the second half of the series, Toriyama has said that he had become more interested in coming up with the story than actually drawing it, and that the battles became more intense with him simplifying the lines.[4] He also said he would get letters from readers complaining that the art had become "too square", so he intentionally made it more so.[4] In 2013, he stated that because Dragon Ball is an action manga the most important aspect is the sense of speed, so he didn't draw very elaborate, going so far as to suggest one could say that he wasn't interested in the art.[12] He also once said that his goal for the series was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story.[10] In 2013, commenting on Dragon Ball's global success, Toriyama said, "Frankly, I don't quite understand why it happened. While the manga was being serialized, the only thing I wanted as I kept drawing was to make Japanese boys happy.", "The role of my manga is to be a work of entertainment through and through. I dare say I don't care even if [my works] have left nothing behind, as long as they have entertained their readers."[15]
Written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball was initially serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump starting on December 3, 1984.[3] The series ended on June 5, 1995 when Toriyama grew exhausted and felt he needed a break from drawing.[3] The 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha from November 10, 1985 through August 4, 1995.[16][17][18] In 2002, the chapters were re-released in a collection of 34 kanzenban volumes, which included a slightly rewritten ending, new covers, and color artwork from its Weekly Shōnen Jump run. The February 2013 issue of V Jump, which was released in December 2012, announced that parts of the manga will be fully colored and re-released in 2013.[19] Three volumes comprising the "Saiyan arc" (which begins with chapter 195 of the original series) were released on February 4, 2013, and five volumes of the "Freeza arc" were released on April 4, 2013.
The Dragon Ball manga is licensed for release in English in North America by Viz Media. Viz released volumes 17 through 42 (chapters 195 through 519) under the title "Dragon Ball Z" to mimic the name of the anime series adapted from those volumes, feeling it would reduce the potential for confusion by its readers. They initially released both series chapter by chapter in a monthly comic book format starting in 1998, and later began collecting them in graphic novels in 2000.[20] In 2000, while releasing Dragon Ball in the monthly format, Viz began to censor the series in response to complaints by parents.[21][22] They argued that when there are parental complaints, major chain stores stop selling the series, so to keep wide distribution, they made some "concessions".[22] They assured that all changes were done with approval by Toriyama and Shueisha, with Toriyama making suggestions himself: such as to obscure Goku's genitals with objects, rather than "neuter him".[22] A fan petition that garnered over 10,000 signatures was created, and a year later, Viz announced they would stop censoring the series and instead increased its "rating" to 13 and up, and reprinted the first 3 graphic novels.[21][23]
"Dragon Ball Z", from Trunk's appearance to chapter 226, was published in Viz's monthly magazine Shonen Jump from its debut issue in January 2003 to April 2005. Later, the first 10 collected volumes of both series were re-released from March to May 2003 under their "Shonen Jump" imprint, with Dragon Ball being completed on August 3, 2004 and Dragon Ball Z finishing on June 6, 2006.[24][25] However, when releasing the last few volumes of Dragon Ball Z, the company began to censor the series again; translating the sound effects of gunshots to "zap" and changing the few sexual references.[23] In June 2008, Viz began re-releasing the two series in a wideban format called "Viz Big Edition," which collects three individual volumes into a single large volume.[26][27] These editions are on higher quality paper and include some of the original Weekly Shōnen Jump color pages, however, they include new censorship not in the 2003 releases. On November 3, 2008, the first volumes of both series were released in hardcover "Collector's Editions."[28][29] Viz began releasing new 3-in-1 volumes of Dragon Ball, similar to their "Viz Big Edition", using the Japanese kanzenban covers; with volume one released on June 4, 2013.[30] They serialized chapter 195 to 245 of the new fully colored version of the manga in their digital anthology Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2013 to February 2014.[31] They began publishing Dragon Ball Full Color Edition into large printed volumes on February 4, 2014.[32]
The manga has also been licensed in other English-speaking countries, distributed in the same Viz format of separating it into Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. The United Kingdom's release of the manga has been through different distributors. From August 2005 to November 2007, Gollancz Manga an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group released the 16 volumes of Dragon Ball and the first 4 of Dragon Ball Z.[33][34] Viz would release the books after Gollancz and expand to digital sales on the Nook in August 2013.[35] In Australia and New Zealand, Madman Entertainment has released all 16 volumes of the Dragon Ball manga and the 9 "Viz Big" volumes of Dragon Ball Z.[36][37][38][39]
Spin-offs and crossovers
Toriyama also created a short series, Neko Majin, that became a self-parody of Dragon Ball. First appearing in August 1999, the eight chapter series was released sporadically in Weekly Shōnen Jump and Monthly Shōnen Jump until it was completed in 2005. These chapters were compiled into one kanzenban volume for release on April 4, 2005.[40] In 2006, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (or Kochikame), a special manga titled Super Kochikame (超こち亀 Chō Kochikame ) was released on September 15.[41] It included characters from the series appearing in special crossover chapters of other well-known manga. The chapter "This is the Police Station in front of Dragon Park on Planet Namek" (こちらナメック星ドラゴン公園前派出所 Kochira Namekku-sei Dragon Kōen-mae Hashutsujo ) was a Dragon Ball crossover by Toriyama and Kochikame author Osamu Akimoto. That same year, Toriyama teamed up with Eiichiro Oda to create a single crossover chapter of Dragon Ball and One Piece. Entitled Cross Epoch, the chapter was published in the December 25, 2006 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump and the April 2011 issue of English Shonen Jump.[42] The final chapter of Toriyama's 2013 manga series Jaco the Galactic Patrolman revealed that it is set before Dragon Ball, with several characters making appearances.[43] Jaco's collected volumes contain a bonus Dragon Ball chapter depicting Goku's mother. Jaco and the bonus chapter were both published in Viz's digital English Weekly Shonen Jump.[44]
A colored spin-off manga titled Dragon Ball SD, also written by Ōishi, has been published in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine since its debut issue released in December 2010.[45] After the first four issues, the second released in April 2011, the third in August, and the fourth in October, the magazine became a monthly publication. The manga is a condensed retelling of Goku's various adventures as a child, with many details changed, in a super deformed art style, hence the title.[46] It has been collected into three volumes, with the first being released on April 4, 2013, the second on April 4, 2014, and the third on December 4, 2014.[47][48][49]
Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock is a three-chapter manga, once again penned by Naho Ōishi, that was published in the monthly magazine V Jump from August and October 2011.[50] This manga is a sequel to the 1990 TV special Bardock – The Father of Goku with some key details changed. As the title indicates the manga's story revolves around Bardock, Goku's father, who in this special is featured in a "what-if" scenario in which he did not die at the hands of Freeza and gets to fight his enemy as a Super Saiyan. The fact that Bardock appears as a Super Saiyan is based on the Dragon Ball Heroes card featuring him as one.[51]
Anime series
Dragon Ball
- Main article: Dragon Ball (anime)
Toei Animation produced an anime television series based on the first 194 manga chapters, also titled Dragon Ball. The series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on February 26, 1986 and ran until April 12, 1989, lasting 153 episodes.[3]
Dragon Ball Z
- Main article: Dragon Ball Z
Instead of continuing the anime as Dragon Ball, Toei Animation decided to carry on with their adaptation under a new name and asked Akira Toriyama to come up with the title. Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ(ゼット) Doragon Bōru Zetto , commonly abbreviated as DBZ) picks up five years after the first series left off and adapts the final 325 chapters of the manga. It premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on April 26, 1989, taking over its predecessor's time slot, and ran for 291 episodes until its conclusion on January 31, 1996.[3]
Dragon Ball GT
- Main article: Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball GT (ドラゴンボールGT(ジーティー) Doragon Bōru Jī Tī , G(rand) T(ouring)[52]) premiered on Fuji TV on February 2, 1996 and ran until November 19, 1997 for 64 episodes.[3] Unlike the first two anime series, it is not based on Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga,[53] being created by Toei Animation as a sequel to the series or as Toriyama called it, a "side story of the original Dragon Ball".[52] Toriyama only designed the main cast and some machines, and came up with the title.
Dragon Ball Kai
- Main article: Dragon Ball Kai
In February 2009, Toei Animation announced that it would begin broadcasting a revised version of Dragon Ball Z as part of the series' 20th anniversary celebrations. The series premiered on Fuji TV in Japan on April 5, 2009, under the name Dragon Ball Kai (ドラゴンボール改 Doragon Bōru Kai , lit. "Dragon Ball Revised"), with the episodes remastered for HDTV, featuring updated opening and ending sequences, and a rerecording of the vocal tracks by most of the original cast.[54][55] The footage was also re-edited to more closely follow the manga, resulting in a faster-moving story, and damaged frames removed.[56] As such, it is a new version of Dragon Ball Z created from the original footage. The majority of the international versions, including Funimation Entertainment's English dub, are titled Dragon Ball Z Kai.[57][58]
Eighteen animated theatrical films based on the Dragon Ball series have been released in Japan. The first three films are based on the original Dragon Ball anime series. The remaining films include fourteen Dragon Ball Z films and one tenth anniversary special (also based on the first anime series). However, the films are generally either alternate re-tellings of certain story arcs or extra side-stories that do not correlate with the same timeline as the series. The exception being Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F released in 2013 and 2015 respectively, these films being the first to have original creator Akira Toriyama deeply involved in their production.[59][60]
An unofficial live-action Mandarin Chinese film adaptation of the series, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, was released in Taiwan in 1989.[3] In December 1990, the unofficial live-action Korean film Dragon Ball: Ssawora Son Goku was released. 20th Century Fox acquired Feature film rights to the Dragon Ball franchise in March 2002 and began production on an American live-action film entitled Dragonball Evolution.[61][62] Directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow, it was released in the United States on April 10, 2009.[62][63]
TV Specials and other animations
Three television specials based on the series were aired on Fuji TV in Japan. The first, The One True Final Battle ~The Z Warrior Who Challenged Freeza -- Son Goku's Father~, renamed Bardock – The Father of Goku by Funimation, was shown on October 17, 1990. The second special, The Hopeless Resistance!! Gohan and Trunks -- The Two Remaining Super Warriors, renamed The History of Trunks by Funimation, is based on a special chapter of the original manga and aired on March 24, 1993. Goku Side Story! The Four Star Ball is a Badge of Courage, renamed A Hero's Legacy by Funimation, aired on March 26, 1997. A two-part hour-long crossover special between Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Toriko, referred to as Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special!! aired on April 7, 2013.[64]
A two-episode Original video animation (OVA) titled Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans was created in 1993 as strategy guides for the Famicom video game of the same name.[65] A remake titled Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans was created as a bonus feature for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, which was released on November 11, 2010.[66]
The short film Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! was created for the Jump Super Anime Tour,[67] which celebrated Weekly Shōnen Jump's 40th anniversary, and debuted on November 24, 2008. A short animated adaptation of Naho Ōishi's Bardock spinoff manga, Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, was shown on December 17–18, 2011 at the Jump Festa 2012 event.[68]
Video games
thumb|right|A Dragon Ball arcade game in the far right along with many other arcade games. The Dragon Ball franchise has spawned multiple video games across various genres and platforms. Earlier games of the series included a system of card battling and were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System following the storyline of the series.[69] Starting Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mega Drive/Genesis, the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation, most of the games were from the fighting genre or RPG (Role Playing Game), including the series Super Butoden.[70] The first Dragon Ball game to be released in the United States was Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout for the PlayStation on July 31, 1997.[71] For the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable games the characters were redone in 3D cel-shaded graphics. These games included the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series and the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series.[72][73] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit was the first game of the series developed for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.[74] A massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Dragon Ball Online was available in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan until the servers were shut down in 2013.[75]
Myriad soundtracks were released in the anime, movies and the games. The music for the first two anime Dragon Ball and Z and its films was composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi, while the music from GT was composed by Akihito Tokunaga and the music from Kai was composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Norihito Sumitomo. For the first anime, the soundtracks released were Dragon Ball: Music Collection in 1985 and Dragon Ball: Complete Song Collection in 1991, although they were reissued in 2007 and 2003, respectively.[76] For the second anime, the soundtrack series released were Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection Series. It was produced and released by Columbia Records of Japan from July 21, 1989 to March 20, 1996 the show's entire lifespan. On September 20, 2006 Columbia re-released the Hit Song Collection on their Animex 1300 series.[77][78] Other CDs released are compilations, video games and films soundtracks as well as music from the English versions.[79]
Companion books
thumb|Cover of Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations There have been numerous companion books to the Dragon Ball franchise. Chief among these are the Daizenshuu (大全集) series, comprising seven hardback main volumes and three supplemental softcover volumes, covering the manga and the first two anime series and their theatrical films. The first of these, Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations (Daizenshuu volume 1), first published in Japan in 1995, is the only one that was released in English, being printed in 2008 by Viz Media.[80] It contains all 264 colored illustrations Akira Toriyama drew for the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazines' covers, bonus giveaways and specials, and all the covers for the 42 tankōbon. It also includes an interview with Toriyama on his work process. The remainder have never been released in English, and all are now out of print in Japan. From February 4 to May 9, 2013, condensed versions of the Daizenshuu with some updated information were released as the four-volume Chōzenshū (超全集) series.[19] For Dragon Ball GT, the Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files were released in May and December 1997 by Shueisha's Jump Comics Selection imprint. They include series information, illustration galleries, behind-the-scenes information, and more. They were out of print for many years, but were re-released in April 2006 (accompanying the Japanese DVD release of Dragon Ball GT) and this edition is still in print.[81][82]
Coinciding with the 34-volume kanzenban re-release of the manga, and the release of the entire series on DVD for the first time in Japan, four new guidebooks were released in 2003 and 2004. Dragon Ball Landmark and Dragon Ball Forever cover the manga, using volume numbers for story points that reference the kanzenban release,[83][84] while Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi Densetsu (ドラゴンボール 天下一伝説) and Dragon Ball Z: Son Goku Densetsu (ドラゴンボールZ 孫悟空伝説) cover the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime, respectively.[85][86] Much of the material in these books is reused from the earlier Daizenshuu volumes, but they include new textual material including substantial interviews with the creator, cast and production staff of the series. Son Goku Densetsu in particular showcases previously-unpublished design sketches of Goku's father Bardock, drawn by character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru prior to creator Akira Toriyama's revisions that resulted in the final version.
Following the release of Dragon Ball Kai in Japan, four new guidebooks were released: the two-volume Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide (ドラゴンボール 超エキサイティングガイド) in 2009, covering the manga,[87][88] and two-volume Dragon Ball: Extreme Battle Collection (ドラゴンボール 極限バトルコレクション) in 2010, covering the anime series.[89][90] Despite the TV series airing during this time being Kai, the Extreme Battle Collection books reference the earlier Z series in content and episode numbers. These books also include new question-and-answer sessions with Akira Toriyama, revealing a few new details about the world and characters of the series. 2010 also saw the release of a new artbook, Dragon Ball: Anime Illustrations Guide - The Golden Warrior (ドラゴンボール アニメイラスト集 「黄金の戦士」); a sort of anime-counterpart to the manga-oriented Complete Illustrations, it showcases anime-original illustrations and includes interviews with the three principal character designers for the anime. Each of the Japanese "Dragon Box" DVD releases of the series and movies, which were released from 2003 to 2006, as well as the Blu-ray boxed sets of Dragon Ball Kai, released 2009 to 2011, come with a Dragon Book guide that contains details about the content therein. Each also contains a new interview with a member of the cast or staff of the series. These books have been reproduced textually for Funimation's release of the Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box sets from 2009 to 2011.
Collectible cards
Collectible cards based on the Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT series have been released by Bandai. These cards feature various scenes from the manga and anime stills, plus exclusive artwork from all three series. Bandai released the first set in the United States in July 2008.[91]
Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga series of all time, and it continues to enjoy high readership today. By 2000, more than 126 million copies of its tankōbon volumes had been sold in Japan alone.[92] By 2012, this number had grown to pass 156 million in Japan and 230 million worldwide, making it the second best-selling Weekly Shōnen Jump manga of all time.[93][94] Dragon Ball is credited as one of the main reasons for the "Golden Age of Jump", the period between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s when manga circulation was at its highest.[95][96] For the 10th anniversary of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006, Japanese fans voted Dragon Ball the third greatest manga of all time.[97]
In a survey conducted by Oricon in 2007 among 1,000 people, Son Goku, the main character of the franchise, ranked first place as the "Strongest Manga Character of All Time."[98] Goku's journey and his ever growing strength resulted in the character winning "the admiration of young boys everywhere".[2] Manga artists, such as One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda and Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, have stated that Goku inspired their series' main protagonists as well as series structure.[99][100]
Manga critic Jason Thompson stated in 2011 that "Dragon Ball is by far the most influential shonen manga of the last 30 years, and today, almost every Shonen Jump artist lists it as one of their favorites and lifts from it in various ways."[101] He says the series "turns from a gag/adventure manga to an nearly-pure fighting manga",[101] and its basic formula of "lots of martial arts, lots of training sequences, a few jokes" became the model for other shōnen series, such as Naruto.[102] Thompson also called Toriyama's art influential and cited it as a reason for the series' popularity.[101] James S. Yadao, author of The Rough Guide to Manga, claims that the first several chapters of Dragon Ball "play out much like Saiyuki with Dr. Slump-like humour built in" and that Dr. Slump, Toriyama's previous manga, has a clear early influence on the series.[103] He feels the series "established its unique identity" after the first occasion when Goku's group disbands and he trains under Kame-sen'nin, when the story develops "a far more action-packed, sinister tone" with "wilder" battles with aerial and spiritual elements and an increased death count, while humor still makes an occasional appearance.[103] Yadao claims that an art shift occurs when the characters "lose the rounded, innocent look that he established in Dr. Slump and gain sharper angles that leap off the page with their energy and intensity."[104]
Animerica felt the series had "worldwide appeal", using dramatic pacing and over-the-top martial arts action to "maintain tension levels and keep a crippler crossface hold on the audience's attention spans".[105] In Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture, Takashi Murakami commented that Dragon Ball's "never-ending cyclical narrative moves forward plausibly, seamlessly, and with great finesse."[92] Ridwan Khan from Animefringe.com commented that the manga had a "chubby" art style, but as the series continued the characters got more refined, leaner, and more muscular. Khan prefers the manga over the slow pacing of the anime counterparts.[106] Allen Divers of Anime News Network praised the story and humor of the manga as being very good at conveying all of the characters' personalities. Divers also called Viz's translation one of the best of all the English editions of the series due to its faithfulness to the original Japanese.[107] D. Aviva Rothschild of Rationalmagic.com remarked the first manga volume as "a superior humor title". They praised Goku's innocence and Bulma's insistence as one of the funniest parts of the series.[108]
The content of the manga has been controversial in United States. In November 1999, Toys "R" Us removed Viz's Dragon Ball from their stores nationwide when a Dallas parent complained the series had "borderline soft porn" after he bought them for his four-year-old son.[109] Commenting on the issue, Susan J. Napier explained it as a difference in culture.[109] After the ban, Viz reluctantly began to censor the series to keep wide distribution.[22] However in 2001, after releasing three volumes censored, Viz announced Dragon Ball would be uncensored and reprinted due to fan reactions.[23] In October 2009, Wicomico County Public Schools in Maryland banned the Dragon Ball manga from their school district because it "depicts nudity, sexual contact between children and sexual innuendo among adults and children."[109]
The anime adaptations have also been very well-received and are better known in the Western world than the manga, with Anime News Network saying "Few anime series have mainstreamed it the way Dragon Ball Z has. To a certain generation of television consumers its characters are as well known as any in the animated realm, and for many it was the first step into the wilderness of anime fandom."[110] In 2000, satellite TV channel Animax together with Brutus, a men's lifestyle magazine, and Tsutaya, Japan's largest video rental chain, conducted a poll among 200,000 fans on the top anime series, with Dragon Ball coming in fourth.[111] TV Asahi conducted two polls in 2005 on the Top 100 Anime, Dragon Ball came in second in the nation-wide survey conducted with multiple age-groups and in third in the online poll.[112][113] On several occasions the Dragon Ball anime has topped Japan's DVD sales.[114][115]
Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network summed up Dragon Ball as "an action-packed tale told with rare humor and something even rarer—a genuine sense of adventure."[116] Both Kimlinger and colleague Theron Martin noted Funimation's reputation for drastic alterations of the script, but praised the dub.[116][117] However, some critics and most fans of the Japanese version have been more critical with Funimation's English dub and script of Dragon Ball Z over the years. Jeffrey Harris IGN criticized the voices including how Freeza's appearance combined with the feminine English voice left fans confused about Freeza's gender.[118] Carlos Ross of T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews considered the series' characters to be different from stereotypical stock characters and noted that they undergo much more development.[119] Despite praising Dragon Ball Z for its cast of characters, they criticized it for having long and repetitive fights.[120]
Dragon Ball Z is well-known, and often criticized, for its long, repetitive, dragged-out fights that span several episodes, with Martin commenting "DBZ practically turned drawing out fights into an art form."[121] However, Jason Thompson of io9 explained that this comes from the fact that the anime was being created alongside the manga.[122] Dragon Ball Z was listed as the 78th best animated show in IGN's Top 100 Animated Series,[123] and was also listed as the 50th greatest cartoon in Wizard magazine's Top 100 Greatest Cartoons list.[124] Harris commented that Dragon Ball GT "is downright repellent", mentioning that the material and characters had lost their novelty and fun. He also criticized the GT character designs of Trunks and Vegeta as being goofy.[118] Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network also gave negative comments about GT, mentioning that the fights from the series were "a very simple childish exercise" and that many other anime were superior. The plot of Dragon Ball GT has also been criticized for giving a formula that was already used in its predecessors.[125]
The first episode of Dragon Ball Z Kai earned a viewer ratings percentage of 11.3, ahead of One Piece and behind Crayon Shin-chan.[126] Although following episodes had lower ratings, Kai was among the top 10 anime in viewer ratings every week in Japan for most of its run.[127][128]
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I'm actually waiting moving my product over to VS2010 until Viemu supports it. I really hope we've got something soon.
We have the RTM of VS2010 now ... upgrading to that in a day or two.
VIEMU where are U!!!
Please include me on the beta. I've just upgraded to the VS2010 RTM, and I'm going crazy with the standard editor. I end up copying everything into gvim and back, it's terrible. I'll run debug builds or whatever. Submit stack traces, etc. Help me!!!
Hi Jon
Like many others, I'm dying out here without viemu ;-) but I have to be honest and say that I switched to VS2010 for Silverlight 4 and the convenience of the built in XAML editor (less switching between VS and Blend) so I brought it on myself. I knew that life (temporarily) without viemu wasn't going to be easy but I didn't quite realise that it would become unbearable after... oh... I don't know... say... about 7 minutes?
Of course I also want it (NEED it), but I'm a programmer myself ;-) so I just want to say thanks for a great product and don't stress over it. What we're losing now in productivity is insignificant compared to what you've saved us over the years. I don't mean this as extra pressure, just to say thanks and good luck with your development efforts.
Currently I really feel a bit handicapped without ViEmu in VS2010. I have the VS2010 release version installed, but without ViEmu it's more like a beta version for me - nice to play around, but not ready for real work.
I've just given the VS2010 RTM a whirl and (after some pain getting the interface to look anything like the rest of my system) I'm seeing some features that will be super-neat to start using (pinning of DataTips comes to mind: the watch window will see a lot less usage from me!)
The *only* thing actually holding me back from VS2010 is the lack of ViEmu. Jon, I know you guys are working frantically on it -- and I'm sure I speak for everyone saying that we appreciate the effort and investment of time and interest from you and your team. ViEmu is a "must have" which has made my VS coding much more productive.
PLEASE make a beta available soon. I would gladly be part of the test group for it!
Hi everyone,
Apoplogies to all, as I totally understand that I am late with this. It's been really difficult to organize everything.
Two pieces of news anyway:
1) ViEmu 2.5 for VS, SQL Server and Word&Outlook, together with Codekana 1.5, are ready since yesterday in beta form (Beta 2, almost final - official release probably ready in a matter of days). Details and download links here:
(Main things: multiple-key-chord mappings, Ctrl-A/Ctrl-X, i_Ctrl-Y/i_Ctrl-E, goto-function dialog in Codekana, new license key system for all).
2) We already have a ViEmu/VS2010 version working internally, not release quality yet, but I think we can have a publicly available good beta in about 3 weeks from now.
I'll post here as soon as there are more news, and I'll email everyone who asked about it as soon as the ViEmu/VS2010 beta is ready to download.
Regards, and apologies again for the timing,
-- Jon
Thanks for the feedback Jon!
The changelist looks good! Can't wait to start using the 2.5 beta!
Keep up the excellent work (:
Just some quick feedback (I didn't see a thread for beta feedback, so please feel free to create one and I'll repost):
Ctrl-A works as expected. Ctrl-X works on numbers != 1. Ctrl-X on a 1 deletes the character? How odd!
Hi Jon,
If there is a beta list for ViEmu 2010, kindly add my name!
Davydm, Ctrl-X on 1 = genuine bug. Oops! Will fix it for next build. How stupid.
Darren, I'll email everyone on this post about the VS2010 beta as soon as it's ready.
-- Jon
Davydm, I've already fixed it for the next build. In any case, as a workaround, if you remove 'octal' from the nrformats option, it will work fine (use "set nrformats=hex" in _viemurc for this).
The bug was a side effect of the logic that removes the leading zeros after decrementing "0008" if octal is enabled (because, else, the default result "0007" would be considered octal and handled as such in subsequent operations). This "spilled over" to removing the only "0" after decrementing "1".
Note: Ctrl-A/Ctrl-X logic is unbelievably complex if all cases are done properly, and that is something I didn't expect!
Hi Jon,
If there is a beta list for the VS2010 beta , kindly add my name!
I would like to be involved in the beta as well.
"So, in short, I will support VS 2010, but it's going to take a huge effort, and it won't be free.
Thanks for the kind comment!
-- Jon"
As a software developer myself, I totally understand, however you might want to remove this from the front page:
"VS2010 version ready soon. If you buy ViEmu now, you'll get it free when it's ready!"
Is it true still? That quote was up when I bought ViEmu. If not, I understand.
Ah, nevermind, I didn't see this one:
The upgrade will be free to everyone who bought less than a year ago, and will include a fee for those who bought before that, I'm still deciding on the structure and amount of that upgrade/support&maintenance fee. In any case it will be very reasonable, and include upgrades for all ViEmu/VS versions for one more year.
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I am also very anxious for a 2010 compatible version! We have switched to 2010 and without ViEmu I feel like someone broke a few of my fingers. I would love to see a version as early as possible, warts and all.
Just adding to the pressure, hopefully in a good way.
Please include me in the beta... i'm dieing here without viemu
Please include me in the beta.
Based on the level of interest, it might be a good idea to email all registered users once you have a beta ready. I doubt any ViEmu user would *not* want to participate in the VS2010 beta.
I will definitely email all of you. I plan to email about the beta everyone who expressed interest on it, and I will definitely email everyone about it once it is out of beta. Many people are not interested in betas, and it's always better to do betas with a smaller number of people. I will also post about it on the blogs too, and on Twitter.
-- Jon
Jon, please add me to the beta list.
We switched to VS2010 last week and my fingers are in urgent need of an editor that can understand "vi-enese." The sooner the better!
Please add me to the beta as well when it is available. Thank you very much.
I'd also love to be notified about the VS2010 beta. Thanks!
I would also love to be part of the 2010 beta if possible. Thanks!
I don't have a license, is it possible if I can join the beta testing? We are moving over to .NET in the coming month. Just curious.
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WOODS HOLE, Mass. – A seemingly permanent sense of crisis has engulfed our political world – Benghazi, the sequester, the hunt for rogue IRS agents. President Obama must break free if he is to govern effectively. He can do so by speaking forcefully on the most profound crisis confronting this nation:
The threat of climatic disruption and the absolute necessity of deflecting it if this generation is to have a future.
He must call forcefully on the scientific community to speak to the conclusions our research has made clear.
We are the only ones with that information. There is no other source. No one else can tell the public – or our politicians – about our worrisome state of affairs. No one else can warn society what we risk, or explain how this weird, unpredictable, extreme weather is just a foretaste of what is to come.
We need our president to lead, and he has so far blown it, just as surely as President Bush did before him and President Clinton before him and Bush pére and Ronald Reagan before them all.
Let's be clear about the urgency: Obama is the last president who will have an opportunity to deflect a first-class disaster. With every day that passes, we make further commitment to substantially uncontrolled further warming.
High expectations
Obama had a chance to change the debate in April, speaking before an overflow crowd gathered in the newly renovated National Academy of Sciences building.
Expectations were high. There has never been a moment when a sitting president faced more intense scientifically clear and obviously dangerous challenges to the public welfare than today.
The global addiction to fossil fuels has been allowed to run its course beyond the limits of safety, to the moment when the climatic change is tipping beyond the point of reversibility. Past that point, the feedbacks will be in control and the Earth will warm by many degrees despite our attempts to mitigate the process. The seas will rise, continents will bake and flood, chaos will reign. The timing for these changes is not the indefinite future. It is now, today, conspicuous, and it is the next decades and the lifetimes of people now living.
We have powerful resources in the form of scientific insights and talents and energy. But we must be led and fed with political insights and skill, and that is where Obama has failed us.
It is true that this president has been repeatedly rebuffed by a House of Representatives dominated by a faction of Republicans who believe in neither government nor science and who have done their best to dismantle both.
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But no one should yield to such vandalism, least of all a president. And a president addressing the pre-eminent scientific institution can assume he is among staunch friends and supporters. He can and must call on those colleagues to join him in a rapid national, and ultimately international, shift away from fossil fuels toward a world of renewable energy.
I was in the audience that April evening. And I heard no such call to arms.
President John F. Kennedy, standing before the same academy 52 years ago, spoke of the public role scientists must undertake to bolster the advancement of America as a nation.
"All of the questions we must decide now are extremely sophisticated," he said in 1961. "All of these involve questions that confound the experts. For those of us who are not experts, and yet must be called upon to make decisions which involve the security of our country ... we must turn in the last resort to objective, disinterested scientists who bring a strong sense of public responsibility and public obligation."
Alas, President Obama offered none of that. It was friendly talk. No challenge, no inspiration, no hope beyond soft platitudes and pabulum. He urged scientists simply to generate "science-based initiatives to help us minimize and adapt to global threats like climate change."
On the most important scientific issue of our generation, Obama gave the day, and possibly the world, to the Republicans and their congressional and corporate friends.
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States across the U.S. are debating whether or not they should allow public schools to teach courses on the Bible, based on the idea that understanding the Christian scriptures is important in understanding the history and culture of America. Not surprisingly, these Bible course bills are being met with mixed responses by lawmakers.
The House Education Committee in New Hampshire on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly (17-0) to recommend the dismissal of a bill sponsored by Rep. Jerry Bergevin (R-Manchester) that would require all of the state's public high schools to offer an elective social studies course on the Bible, the Concord Monitor reports.
The text of the bill explains that one reason for teaching high school students about the Bible is that knowing biblical concepts "are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, morals, oratory, and public policy." The bill says schools should offer a class either on the Old Testament, the New Testament or both.
Several of the committee's members say they won't support a bill that would force schools to adopt any sort of curriculum, according to the Concord Monitor.
Others said earlier this month that they would like to change the bill so that it isn't "requiring" schools to adopt a Bible course, but rather is "encouraging" them to do so. No members of the committee offered any amendments to the bill yesterday.
Despite the struggles of the New Hampshire bill, a similar bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Terri Proud (R-Tucson), is making its way through the Arizona state legislature with a great deal of support. On Tuesday, the Arizona state House voted 42-15 to allow the course, "The Bible and It's Influence On Western Culture," to be offered as an elective at public high schools, according to the Yuma Sun.
Before the bill was approved, however, legislators rejected a proposal from Rep. Ed Ableser (D-Tempe), who wanted to add the Book of Mormon and two other texts that are important to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the list of materials that classrooms can discuss.
"I have a young girl and at some point she will be enrolling in schools across Arizona," Ableser said, according to the Yuma Sun. "And I hope someday she'll be able to take classes, not only on the Bible and the importance of the Bible in Western culture but also about three other texts I greatly respect and honor."
The Arizona House Minority Leader, Rep. Chad Campbell (D-Phoenix), also believes lawmakers should not dictate to schools which religions they decide to teach about.
Finn Laursen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI), told The Christian Post on Wednesday that it is "foolishness" to give equal attention to other religious texts in schools.
"That's foolishness, because the other faiths did not have the impact on American culture that Christianity and the Bible had. Should some of the other faiths be studied? Absolutely. You need a well-rounded education, but you can't equate some of the other 'holy books,' if you will, to the impact of the Bible," said Laursen.
The CEAI is a nonprofit organization based in Westlake, Ohio, that serves as a professional association for Christians who feel called to work in public schools.
Laursen said there is a movement today of people who are "sanitizing" public school curricula under the belief that secular institutions shouldn't even discuss religion. The problem with that, he said, is a true and realistic look at America's history reveals a nation that was founded on a Christian worldview and is still very much so affected by it today.
"We need to, across the nation, stop being paranoid of looking at our religious history and the heritage of this nation, and unfortunately that has happened in many districts," he noted. "And I think we just need to relax, take an honest look, and let's not be religious-phobic."


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Hello there, and welcome to another pledge in MNN's Nest, an interactive program that helps you create and accomplish easy and Earth-friendly personal goals. With each goal you tackle, you earn points that are then turned into donations to your favorite nonprofit eco-charity.
For many, this next goal may hit really close to home. Home improvements of any kind are enough to leave even the most eco-emboldened of us with butterflies in the tummy and a nasty pounding of the head. But here's the thing: making your home more energy-efficient doesn't have to be hard. Sure, there are more involved ways to curb your household ecological footprint — the things that keep you up at night fretting about R-values and passive solar window design — but you don't necessarily need to start there. Start small and work your way up — baby steps — while working with your specific budget and comfort level. The small things you can do around the house to make it more energy-efficient do add up, so don't sweat it if a complete overhaul isn't in the near future. Now take a deep breath and pledge to make your home more energy-efficient in 2012. Here are some ways to ease into it.
Fear not the energy audit: Ah, the "A" word. It's not one to be thrown around lightly. However, home energy audits, unlike their more dreaded, intrusive brethren, are meant to be nothing but beneficial to you. They aren't scolding indictments of how you live a wasteful life; they aren't meant to be invasive (although having folks brandishing thermal infrared cameras examine your home top to bottom can be a touch unnerving); and they certainly aren't a waste of money since following up on auditor-recommended improvements can save you beaucoup bucks in the long run. In this growing green economy, there is an increasing number of home energy auditing firms out there that specialize in educating you on how you can manage energy costs and your carbon footprint. Do some asking around — or simply go online — to find a home energy auditor near you. And don't forget to check if you qualify for a rebate. Home energy auditors provide a service that leaves you with another "A" word that's absolutely priceless: awareness.
DIYers, rejoice: Are you crafty? Do you have an intimate relationship with your tool bench? Get to work on these small-scale, energy-saving home improvements that can be completed on the cheap and with minimal effort. Usually just a quick trip to your local home improvement or hardware store is required. Many of these tasks are most effective when the weather gets chilly, but it's never too early to start making a winter weatherization checklist. Plus, in addition to keeping cold air out and warm air in during the winter months, some of these projects can help keep warm out air and cold air in on sweltering summer days when you're running the AC. A few DIY-y tasks to consider: installing foam outlet gaskets, chimney balloons and attic stair covers; making a homemade draft snake; and going to town with a caulk gun.
Apply yourself: If your fridge is on the fritz and you've been considering replacing it, now is the time. Swapping out old, clunky appliances for newer, more efficient models has never been easier, thanks to state-run incentive programs that reward you with government green for going green. Energy-guzzling household appliances, especially that fridge, play a significant role in a home's overall energy consumption, about 17 percent, so consider transitioning out older models. But remember: don't trash a perfectly good, functional appliance just because it isn't EnergyStar-branded. And don't search high and low for EnergyStar clothes dryers, space heaters and microwaves ... they don't exist.
See, that wasn't so hard now was it? Now repeat after me: I will make my home more energy-efficient in 2012.
More personal pledges to consider:
- Once a week, I will walk one place instead of driving.
- I will actually use my reusable bags.
- I will get my kids (and myself!) outside more this year.
- I will do a toxin audit of my home.
- I will support my town's local and green businesses this year.
- I will eat more meals at home.
- I will read three environmentally themed books this year.
- Instead of throwing them away, I will recycle my old electronics before buying new ones.


text: Australia could take spent fuel from nuclear power stations overseas. This one is in South Korea. IAEA Imagebank/Flickr May 11, 2016 Location, location, location: why South Australia could take the world's nuclear waste Ben Heard, University of Adelaide South Australia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended a nuclear waste site for the state.


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ProLite III laptop case full review
My search for a new laptop bag started as soon as the Virgin check-in attendant announced that my hand luggage was too heavy to accompany me on my flight to Boston.
This was the same bag and contents that has travelled with me across countries and seas, continents and oceans many times over. Inside its myriad pockets and sleeves was one 15-inch laptop, a power adaptor, various cables and plug changers, a couple of magazines, two books and an iPod.
Virgin's weight allowance was a mere 6kg. My laptop weighed 2.5kg on its own, and all its parts probably another 1.5kg. That doesn't leave a lot for reading materials, etc – and then, as I dumped books and magazines on non-laptop-lugging colleagues, I started thinking that one of the heaviest parts was the damned bag itself.
Weighing 1.77kg this slim case was designed for Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro portables but fits other similar-sized portables. It is available for 13.3-, 15.4- and 17-inch laptops, priced at £69.95 for 13/15 models and £79.95 for the 17.
Available in businessperson black only, the ProLite features a tough "ballistic" nylon shell, with grey lining. It isn't a super-stylish show-off design, but it's a damn site better-looking than most business laptop cases.
There are numerous compartments for cables, adaptors, phone, iPod, papers and discs, etc – more than in Brenthaven's MetroLite. The quick-access pocket is even lined with felt so you don't scratch your sunglasses – a neat touch. You really can fit a load of stuff in here – but remember the new airline weight restrictions.
The padded shoulder strap can also fold inside the case for even more protection. The wheelie strap is also handy for attaching the case to standard wheeled luggage – a real arm/shoulder saver at the airport.


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