Forum

We now have our very own dedicated board on a forum for our group!  Come talk with us and hang out.

Are We Dead?

By now most people who have been visiting this site has noticed a complete lack of updates. Is Manga Shouten dead?  Far from it!  We are, however, without a translator at the moment.

Iyouboushi was doing all of the translations for every release we’ve had.  He’s been pretty busy as of late and has not had time to translate anything new.  Hence, we do not have any new updates for you, our beautifully patient public.

We here just wanted to make an update to say that while we really don’t have anything new to offer today, we are not dead.  Updates will, inevitably, come.  Eventually.

DB Chapter 199

Another day, another release.

Dragon Ball – 199 (DBZ 05) – 「ラディッツとの対決」 (“Showdown with Raditz”)

DB Chapter 198

We’re back with a new release!

Dragon Ball – 198 (DBZ 04) – 「共通の大敵」 (“A Great Common Enemy”)

Enjoy!

Updates

Alright so we have a question for those who might be following our releases.

Should we keep the current release schedule with it being once a week with the occasional week off or should we switch to a “release when finished” method that might result in multiple releases a week (or sometimes only one, as usual) but may include more weeks off? Really the only real difference is when you want the releases. Do you want them one (almost) guaranteed a week or the potential for multiple releases a week whenever they are finished and uploaded?

We’re leaning towards the latter, actually. Dragon Ball is such a huge manga and there will be so many chapters that it might be better if we start releasing them when we’re finished, with the occasional weeks off for sanity breaks. If we release one chapter a week, it will take years before/if we finish.

But we want to hear what you guys think. Don’t be afraid to leave a comment with suggestions or ways for us to improve (on either this or other matters). However, should no one comment by the start of next week, we’re going to go ahead and change the way we do releases.

DB Chapter 197

All right everyone! This week we are proud to present Chapter 197 (Z03) which is entitled 「孫悟空の過去!!」 (“Son Gokuu’s Past!!”).

We hope you enjoy this chapter.

We also want to go ahead and make the announcement that there will be no new chapter next week. Real life is rather busy right now and we’re taking a week off. We apologize in advance.

DB Release Page Touchup

Just to let everyone know that we made a bit of a touch up on the Dragon Ball Release Page. Now you can see exactly which volume the chapters we release are from.

Is it a good update/look for the page? Should we consider trying to update the other release pages in the same fashion? Let us know by leaving us a comment.

DB Chapter 196

Chapter 196 (Z02) is entitled 「カカロット」 (“Kakarotto”). Unlike the Tankoubon version, the Kanzenban version is completely in color.

Hope you enjoy it!

Manga Toshokan Down/Manga Helpers Gone?

As you may or may not have noticed, it seems Manga Toshokan is currently down for maintenance/repair. As a result, our “online” links for our releases are also down.

We had a copy of them up on Manga Helpers but they’ve disappeared from the site. We have no idea why.

So basically, our “read online” links are down and everyone will just have to be patient until the sites work. You can still download the releases here, as they are not hosted on either of those sites.

Finally, we hope you look forward to Dragon Ball chapter 196, which will be released on September 20th.

DB Chapter 195

This week starts the Z saga of Dragon Ball with chapter 195: 「謎の異星人戦士」 (“The Mysterious Alien Warrior”).

Please enjoy it.