A Letter To Viz
By GeneralTso ~ http://www.dbcollection.com/GeneralTso/

7/27/00

To Viz Communications, Inc.:

I am a web master with a small Dragon Ball based site. After watching the progress of DB in the US for 5 years, I think I have found two product lines that could be a major success to your company. Both are officially released in Japan and most of the major world countries, and both are done by the same people who made DB.

First is the 10 volume Daizenshyu (encyclopedia) set (2 of the volumes are worthless since they cover Japanese cards, so the potential release here would be 8). The Daizenshyu are huge illustrated/written "coffee table" books about Dragon Ball. They contain a ton of information portaining to Dragon Ball, and, most importantly, they are about Japanese Dragon Ball, not American. There is a huge market for the "Japanese version" of DB, quote "a version that is unedited, pure, and a good show, unlike FUNimation's version". Though Viz has stayed loyal to the true essence of Dragon Ball, many people, both old fans and new, have discovered this kind of DB, and they want to know about it. Web sites that translate their information from the Daizenshyu are by far the most popular (www.planetnamek.com, www.goes.com/~dbzinfo/). These two sites get more hits than any others (excluding FUNimation's site). These books also include personal stuff by the elusive Manga-ka, Akira Toriyama.

The second is the "Jump Select Comics" Color movie manga series (these are like what you produce for Pokémon movies). Many people want to see the movies and specials that FUNimation has not and may never release. These products can take those people and give them the expirence they want.