Friday, March 29, 2013  Dragon Warrior: A 90s TV Dub That's
(Mostly) Uncut?!  Akira Toriyama is probably the most well known
manga-ka in the world, with only the "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka
besting him.  Ask just about anyone what the first Toriyama
anime North America ever got & they'll all say Dragon Ball Z... 
But they would be wrong.  Back in 1989 Harmony Gold tried
bringing the original Dragon Ball anime to North America with
altered names (like "Goku" becoming "Zero"), but after being
test marketed it never actually aired.  Still, the first
Toriyama anime to ever come over to North America is an
incomplete dub done by the well-versed Saban Entertainment,
Toriyama-related only by original character designs...  I think
you know where I'm going with this.  The Dragon Quest series of
RPGs is one of the biggest video game franchises in Japan, so
popular that an actual law was enacted in Japan that requires
all DQ games to launch on Sunday so that businesses don't suffer
from a lack of productivity.  In North