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Dragon Ball Omnibus #11
Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 11: Includes Vols. 31, 32, 33
Dragon Ball introduces a young monkey-tailed boy named Goku (a wry update of the classic Chinese "Monkey King" legend), whose quiet life changes when he meets a girl named Bulma who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma could use the help of a certain super-strong boy...
Earth faces its deadliest threat ever! Cell is a biologically engineered abomination constructed from the universe’s most powerful beings, including Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and even Freeza! To increase his power and achieve his perfect form, Cell must absorb powerful warriors and steal their energy. Now Cell is about to issue a terrible ultimatum to Earth: produce one warrior who can stand up to Cell one-on-one or he will destroy every living thing on Earth!
Earth faces its deadliest threat ever! Cell is a biologically engineered abomination constructed from the universe’s most powerful beings, including Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and even Freeza! To increase his power and achieve his perfect form, Cell must absorb powerful warriors and steal their energy. Now Cell is about to issue a terrible ultimatum to Earth: produce one warrior who can stand up to Cell one-on-one or he will destroy every living thing on Earth!
560 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2015
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About the author
Akira Toriyama
1,910 books1,744 followersAkira Toriyama (鳥山明) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
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October 15, 2018
A very good collection of Dragonball. This more of a set up collection. I know what they were doing, but I did want more action. I did like the weakness in the just pain strength department. This issue is more about the prices in place. For the games to come. This makes this slowed down collect necessary. Even to be fair there were a couple of big fights in this collection I would give it 4.5 stars but I hate to say it it was just a bit too slowed down.
January 23, 2020
Cell is possibly one of the coolest villains, and I’m really curious to see where this goes.
August 9, 2020
With three evil androids that were created by the late Dr. Gero running amok, there is a greater threat towards the Earth as Piccolo – fused again with Kami – confronts Cell, an artificial life-form begun by Gero and completed by his computer. Biologically engineered from the cells of the greatest warriors, including Goku, Piccolo and even Freeza, Cell arrives from the future, so that he can reach his complete form by absorbing the androids 17 and 18.
We have seen villains in other superhero properties that share the same abilities of other characters, which is often lead to some unoriginal and poorly-conceived climaxes like X-Men Origins: Wolverine. However, the way Akira Toriyama uses Cell throughout his volume, whether it is visually through his three forms, as well as how the characters are motivated because of his actions, makes him one of the standout villains of the entire manga. Although Toriyama repeats the idea of a villain’s final form is a smaller and sleeker design than previous forms, Cell works on a visual idea, as well as personifying the worst aspects of the Z fighters.
Whilst you have most of the Z fighters going through a sense of fear because of Cell, which leads to them training intensely to hopefully rival his strength, characters like Vegeta and Android 17 are so arrogant that they think Cell is below them, which obviously leads them to their downfall. To give Vegeta, if he says he’ll transcend the Super Saiyan, he commits to that goal as Toriyama presents a stunning splash page of Vegeta charging up with his golden hair extending and a great muscular body. This isn’t quite Super Saiyan 2, but it’s “Super Vegeta” and is pretty glorious.
Vegeta has the ability to destroy Cell, but because the latter hasn’t reached his perfect form yet, the former allows his enemy to track down his target, just so Vegeta can beat the soon-to-be Perfect Cell. This continues one of my favourite dynamics, which is between Vegeta and Future Trunks as the son has to see how arrogant and monstrous his father is. In terms of characters making mistakes, Kuririn probably makes the biggest one in this arc, as after receiving Bulma’s remote control to shut down the androids, Kuririn ends up destroying it, due to having a crush on 18.
After his father getting his ass kicked by Perfect Cell, Trunks – who is even stronger than his father as he can also transcend the Super Saiyan – steps up his game, but ultimately fails, due to his brute strength that lowers his speed and thus can’t get a hit on Cell. As brilliant as he is in illustrating action and considering that Toriyama knows how to punctuate a character hitting someone else, he understands that not every fight sequence has to be about brute strength, but should be about how a fighter should strategically think about their next move before making it.
As Cell threatens the world by creating his own fighting tournament known as “The Cell Game”, where he invites any fighter to go up against him, there is a ten-day wait for this event. And thus we get the typical chapters of characters training hard, some of which do in the Room of Spirit and Time, which causes one day outside the chamber to be expanded into one year inside.
Another criticism is the introduction of arguably the most annoying character in Dragon Ball, Hercule AKA Mr. Satan. As the World Martial Arts Champion, who proclaims to be the Earth’s protector through the eyes of the public, he lacks the many skills that have defined the Z fighters, so if someone flies in or fires an energy blast, Hercule sees it all as a trick and simply thinks he can defeat Cell, despite lacking the strength to do. I cannot sanction Mr. Satan’s buffoonery!
As the next volume will conclude The Cell Game, we are approaching what I considered one of, if not the greatest moment when I first watched DBZ years ago and I’m hoping the manga captures that feeling for me.
We have seen villains in other superhero properties that share the same abilities of other characters, which is often lead to some unoriginal and poorly-conceived climaxes like X-Men Origins: Wolverine. However, the way Akira Toriyama uses Cell throughout his volume, whether it is visually through his three forms, as well as how the characters are motivated because of his actions, makes him one of the standout villains of the entire manga. Although Toriyama repeats the idea of a villain’s final form is a smaller and sleeker design than previous forms, Cell works on a visual idea, as well as personifying the worst aspects of the Z fighters.
Whilst you have most of the Z fighters going through a sense of fear because of Cell, which leads to them training intensely to hopefully rival his strength, characters like Vegeta and Android 17 are so arrogant that they think Cell is below them, which obviously leads them to their downfall. To give Vegeta, if he says he’ll transcend the Super Saiyan, he commits to that goal as Toriyama presents a stunning splash page of Vegeta charging up with his golden hair extending and a great muscular body. This isn’t quite Super Saiyan 2, but it’s “Super Vegeta” and is pretty glorious.
Vegeta has the ability to destroy Cell, but because the latter hasn’t reached his perfect form yet, the former allows his enemy to track down his target, just so Vegeta can beat the soon-to-be Perfect Cell. This continues one of my favourite dynamics, which is between Vegeta and Future Trunks as the son has to see how arrogant and monstrous his father is. In terms of characters making mistakes, Kuririn probably makes the biggest one in this arc, as after receiving Bulma’s remote control to shut down the androids, Kuririn ends up destroying it, due to having a crush on 18.
After his father getting his ass kicked by Perfect Cell, Trunks – who is even stronger than his father as he can also transcend the Super Saiyan – steps up his game, but ultimately fails, due to his brute strength that lowers his speed and thus can’t get a hit on Cell. As brilliant as he is in illustrating action and considering that Toriyama knows how to punctuate a character hitting someone else, he understands that not every fight sequence has to be about brute strength, but should be about how a fighter should strategically think about their next move before making it.
As Cell threatens the world by creating his own fighting tournament known as “The Cell Game”, where he invites any fighter to go up against him, there is a ten-day wait for this event. And thus we get the typical chapters of characters training hard, some of which do in the Room of Spirit and Time, which causes one day outside the chamber to be expanded into one year inside.
Another criticism is the introduction of arguably the most annoying character in Dragon Ball, Hercule AKA Mr. Satan. As the World Martial Arts Champion, who proclaims to be the Earth’s protector through the eyes of the public, he lacks the many skills that have defined the Z fighters, so if someone flies in or fires an energy blast, Hercule sees it all as a trick and simply thinks he can defeat Cell, despite lacking the strength to do. I cannot sanction Mr. Satan’s buffoonery!
As the next volume will conclude The Cell Game, we are approaching what I considered one of, if not the greatest moment when I first watched DBZ years ago and I’m hoping the manga captures that feeling for me.
November 28, 2019
Cell is here and he's ready to EAT YA!
Cell is a lot of people's favorite Dragon Ball Villain. To me, he was always interesting, but never loved him. Upon re-reading, my opinion mostly stays the same. What is interesting about him is how easy he can adapt to everyone. First facing off against Piccolo, then Andriod 16, Vegeta, trunks and so on. He knows each fighter and their weakness, and decides to play victim even to win a fight. Also, we get to see Vegeta and Trunk's new power, as well as a sneak peak into what Gohan and Goku have been up to.
The end result is a lot of big fights, some new finishing moves, some surprising turns, and a nice build up to the cell games by the end. It works pretty well. Mr. Satan arrives here and he is as annoying as ever, I forgot how much I hated this character. He's def the worst part of this volume. But besides that, it's a damn good time. A 4 out of 5.
Cell is a lot of people's favorite Dragon Ball Villain. To me, he was always interesting, but never loved him. Upon re-reading, my opinion mostly stays the same. What is interesting about him is how easy he can adapt to everyone. First facing off against Piccolo, then Andriod 16, Vegeta, trunks and so on. He knows each fighter and their weakness, and decides to play victim even to win a fight. Also, we get to see Vegeta and Trunk's new power, as well as a sneak peak into what Gohan and Goku have been up to.
The end result is a lot of big fights, some new finishing moves, some surprising turns, and a nice build up to the cell games by the end. It works pretty well. Mr. Satan arrives here and he is as annoying as ever, I forgot how much I hated this character. He's def the worst part of this volume. But besides that, it's a damn good time. A 4 out of 5.
January 3, 2025
Hm... this was a bit disappointing than the one before. I mean... what was that move with the deactivation switch Kuririn? That was so out of character of him, it ruined his self a bit I think. What bothers me so much is that it was illogical, because at that point and time the androids were evil. So to Kuririn just give up destroying them, or at least deactivating them was a bit forced for me. Even if he is a perv.
Also this time around the humour was a bit tacky for my taste, and also the way our characters can become more powerful was rushed. And also, at this point there's so much of a difference in power lays between Goku and the others (namely Tenshinhan, Yamcha, Kuririn) that there's literally no point in having them around sadly.
Anyway, I still like this arc too, Vegeta is a badass though a bit too cocky, and I'm eager to see what will Goku do with Cell.
Also this time around the humour was a bit tacky for my taste, and also the way our characters can become more powerful was rushed. And also, at this point there's so much of a difference in power lays between Goku and the others (namely Tenshinhan, Yamcha, Kuririn) that there's literally no point in having them around sadly.
Anyway, I still like this arc too, Vegeta is a badass though a bit too cocky, and I'm eager to see what will Goku do with Cell.
June 9, 2025
This is all Vegeta’s fault!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 10, 2024
Puro awayan lang ba talaga ang Dragon Ball? Haha!
Is Goku really the strongest of them all? How much power can he gain exactly? It seems like every time he gets stronger, there's a new enemy who is much more stronger. But then Goku is able to surpass his previous strength.
Sure, he craves battles and fights. But surely, there must come a point when he just wants to have some peace e no?
I'm just saying it's a cycle.And I'm not bored yet.
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Piccolo: You still have another day before you've used all your time!
Goku: It's pretty rough in there, even if you're not doing anything. I'll do better resting my body.
Vegeta: Ha! Even the great Kakarrot admits defeat against the rigors of the room.
Goku: Maybe. But there's a point where stressing your body more is just torture, not training.
Wahahahaha! Goku does not thrive in a toxic environment.
I love this scene, because relatable in a work or personal environment.
Why do we always need to push ourselves?
We could also use some Goku in our lives.
Goku: I've got nothing against you guys using the room, though. You've probably still got room to improve.
Vegeta: What did you say?! Are you suggesting that you are more advanced that I am?!
Goku: Uh-huh. A lot.
Parang sila Rukawa at Sakuragi lang tong dalawa e. Hahaha!
Is Goku really the strongest of them all? How much power can he gain exactly? It seems like every time he gets stronger, there's a new enemy who is much more stronger. But then Goku is able to surpass his previous strength.
Sure, he craves battles and fights. But surely, there must come a point when he just wants to have some peace e no?
I'm just saying it's a cycle.
---
Piccolo: You still have another day before you've used all your time!
Goku: It's pretty rough in there, even if you're not doing anything. I'll do better resting my body.
Vegeta: Ha! Even the great Kakarrot admits defeat against the rigors of the room.
Goku: Maybe. But there's a point where stressing your body more is just torture, not training.
Wahahahaha! Goku does not thrive in a toxic environment.
I love this scene, because relatable in a work or personal environment.
Why do we always need to push ourselves?
We could also use some Goku in our lives.
Goku: I've got nothing against you guys using the room, though. You've probably still got room to improve.
Vegeta: What did you say?! Are you suggesting that you are more advanced that I am?!
Goku: Uh-huh. A lot.
Parang sila Rukawa at Sakuragi lang tong dalawa e. Hahaha!
August 6, 2023
Practically nonstop action with great training scenes in between. While I wasn't the biggest fan of any of the androids in the anime 16, 17, and 18 have all grown on me. Looking forward to the conclusion and onto the Buu saga.
August 23, 2025
The end of the Cell saga. It's good. (I'll be including my review for the true end of the sage leading into buu even though that isn't in this volume)
Goku doesn't save the day. In fact, he makes some braindead choices that almost cost everyone their lives. But he makes up for it in the end.
There's some great character moments here. I love Vegeta's response to the death of Trunks. I love Gohan's moment when he finally breaks. The whole Mr. Satan bit is pretty funny, only slightly veering into obnoxious.
Cell regenerating as perfect cell from a single cell is BS. Ridiculous pull to resurrect the villain. But it made for an epic final moment where Gohan truly seals the deal with the support of his dad.
I completely see why everyone thinks this should've been the ending point for Dragon Ball. Goku has truly died, sacrificing himself to save the Earth. But it's Gohan who ends up stepping in as the new protector, able to do what Goku couldn't. There's always someone stronger, and in this case, that's Gohan. It's a happy, cathartic ending. Even Trunks gets a good ending in the future timeline. I'm pretty sure Toriyama throws all this away in the Buu saga, which is disappointing. But judging solely on where we are at the end of this arc, I'm satisfied.
Goku doesn't save the day. In fact, he makes some braindead choices that almost cost everyone their lives. But he makes up for it in the end.
There's some great character moments here. I love Vegeta's response to the death of Trunks. I love Gohan's moment when he finally breaks. The whole Mr. Satan bit is pretty funny, only slightly veering into obnoxious.
Cell regenerating as perfect cell from a single cell is BS. Ridiculous pull to resurrect the villain. But it made for an epic final moment where Gohan truly seals the deal with the support of his dad.
I completely see why everyone thinks this should've been the ending point for Dragon Ball. Goku has truly died, sacrificing himself to save the Earth. But it's Gohan who ends up stepping in as the new protector, able to do what Goku couldn't. There's always someone stronger, and in this case, that's Gohan. It's a happy, cathartic ending. Even Trunks gets a good ending in the future timeline. I'm pretty sure Toriyama throws all this away in the Buu saga, which is disappointing. But judging solely on where we are at the end of this arc, I'm satisfied.
August 21, 2017
Yup, it's another volume of Dragon Ball, and it's pretty fun, although the series might have reached diminishing returns by this point. This time around, the villain is a time-traveling, genetically engineered monster named Cell, and he's so powerful, nobody can seem to take him on. But he decides to return to one of the old tropes of the series by staging a fighting tournament in which everyone can fight him, and if they lose, he'll kill everyone on earth. It works well enough, but as seems to be the norm by this point in the series, it takes quite a while to get to the good stuff. Anyway, it's fine, and there's plenty of fun action and occasional goofy jokes. Only a few more volumes to go!
June 20, 2017
Probably my favorite DBZ volume.
March 2, 2019
3.5 for Satan. Hercule Satan that is. Hate him much.
May 23, 2019
Este de verdad me gusto mucho porque me hizo reir en muchas ocasiones
March 5, 2023
Volume 11 contains books 31, 32 and 33 which contains chapters 362 to 396 + bonus story The History of Tranks. Three more volumes to go. Crazy/fun as ever!
August 20, 2023
Of course it was so good! I’m not shocked!
Want to read
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November 30, 2024
If I remember correctly, this volume is the lead into one of the more fun arcs in the whole series. Lot's of buildup and tension growing here.
February 14, 2025
Five stars for Mr. SATAN alone!
It was a great volume with a lot of important developments and hints at the future, but what better way to finish than the champ himself, HERCULE SATAN! lol
Classic.
It was a great volume with a lot of important developments and hints at the future, but what better way to finish than the champ himself, HERCULE SATAN! lol
Classic.
October 14, 2021
Great stuff. The Cell games begin!
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