Another Day, Another Adventure: A Dragon Ball Podcast

Akira Toriyama passed away recently on March 1st, 2024, and the world won't be the same without him. Colton & Sakaki have a somewhat unorganized talk in order to get their feelings out and ruminate on what Toriyama's influence meant to both the world and their friendship.

On today's adventure, we're joined by both Randy & Doug from We Gotta Podcast, as we discuss episodes 35-38 of the 1986 Dragon Ball anime! Where Goku crash lands in a snowy village and invades the nearby Red Ribbon army base located at the terrifying Muscle Tower! We discuss in particular how though the pacing of these episodes compared to the original manga material may unfortunately drag down quite a bit of the tension and comedy, they still manage to be quite enjoyable! Even...

On today's adventure, we're once again joined by co-host of Manga Mavericks & #Lum Squad, LumRanmaYasha, as we tone our glistening bodies to perfection and talk about episodes 32-34 of the original 1986 Dragon Ball anime and continue through the Red Ribbon Army arc! We discuss some differences between the anime and manga when it comes to the build up of Colonel Silver and the depiction of General Red, and we also even discuss Sakaki's thoughts after recently watching...

On today’s adventure, we’re joined by Kendra, host of the My Hero Academia Podcast, to cover episodes 29-31 of the original 1986 Dragon Ball anime! As Goku and friends depart and go their separate ways after the 21st Martial Arts Tournament and we’re treated to our first batch of mostly anime original material meant to help viewers transition into the Red Ribbon Army arc! Join us as we talk about why Episode 29 in particular ends up rendering Nam’s entire reason for participating in the...

On today's adventure, Colton & Sakaki are joined by their friend and fellow podcaster, LumRanmaYasha (Manga Mavericks, #Lum_Squad), to talk about their experience seeing Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero in theaters! We discuss our general thoughts on the film and how it stacks up to the last few from the franchise!

We apologize for how late this episode is and hope that you will look forward to our next actual episode of the podcast beginning our coverage of the Red Ribbon Army arc...

On today's adventure, we're joined by Nate Ming, marketing manager at Copic and artist of the webcomic, Shaw City Strikers, to cover episodes 26-28 of the original 1986 Dragon Ball anime, as we finally arrive at the final match of the 21st martial arts tournament between Goku and Jackie Chun! Nate provides his perspective as both a fan of action flicks and a martial artist himself as we go through the fight and talk about why its just so awesome! What references to other martial arts films...

On today's adventure, Colton & Sakaki take a small break from their watch-through of the 1986 Dragon Ball anime to talk about, quite frankly, an amazing Dragon Ball fan film, directed and produced by Naseer Pasha and his crew at Stray Dog Studios, entitled Legend: A Dragon Ball Tale! A short film about a prince named Vegeta, landing on Earth to recruit the long lost golden warrior, Goku, for an upcoming war right in the middle of a fight with his future wife, Chi-Chi, at the World...

On today's adventure, we invite on good friends and podcasting cohorts, LumRanmaYasha & VlordGTZ, as we discuss episodes 23-25 of the 1986 Dragon Ball anime! We continue the 21st martial arts tournament as we finish off the quarterfinals and head onto the semi-finals as Lum talks about why these episodes are so much fun, as well as highlighting some moments from the English dub! Meanwhile, Vlord talks about how cool Namu is while also acknowledging that Toriyama's Indian representation...

On today's adventure, Colton & Sakaki are joined by Toonami Faithful editor-in-chief, CJ Maffris, to discuss episodes 20-22 of the 1986 Dragon Ball anime as we finally begin the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai and watch our heroes quickly make it through the preliminary rounds and straight to the quarterfinals! Join us as we discuss why CJ should read the original manga, how not to pad out an anime episode and why Ranfan is an underrated hottie that'll send both CJ and Colton to...

On today's adventure, Colton & Sakaki are joined by fellow Dragon Ball podcaster, Randy (@saber_breaker), host of We Gotta Podcast, to cover episodes 17-19 of the 1986 Dragon Ball anime, as Goku & Krillin continue their harsh training under Muten Roshi to prepare for the upcoming martial arts tournament! Join us as we discuss whether Roshi's training counts as free child labor, Colton's love for bowl cut Yamcha, and whether pepper actually makes you sneeze like in cartoons!...