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I woke up early this morning wanting to watch something fun and inspirational while I worked on pages for Goblyn. The second I sat down I instantly started hearing the theme song to Dragon Warrior , the English translated version of the Japanese anime Dragon Quest: Legend of The Hero Abel. You see, while many people in the US site the Dragon Ball series as their introduction to Akira Toriyama’s work, mine was through his work on the original Dragon Quest animated show. It has its moments of utter goofiness, and even terrible localization as a lot of anime was done in the early days of it being brought over to America. (i'm looking at you Saban entertainment) But it has more awesome moments then bad and that’s why it holds a special place in my heat. It was the first time I was exposed to Akira Toriyama’s style of art, and I was instantly drawn to it. I was also drawn to the story structure, which was just like a video game (including calling eac

PREVIOUS  ~  NEXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this issue makes me feel a lot better about going back a few issues and starting over.  the size of the cast at this point ( 9 teams ) and their interactions really allow me to  make the world of Munch Chunky seem full of life. and that's the kind of story telling I like. C: all of the characters have motivations that will be revealed and rivalries that will bubble over as the game gets more intense. this is the first round. technically the elimination round. it's built so that the most teams get eliminated at this point, than at any other point in the match. what am I doing...  I'll let the characters in the actual story explain it to you as the series goes on more. Diddle is filled with this info. ha ha.