Dragon Ball is preparing to celebrate 40 years since the first manga publication. Therefore, illustrators of famous Japanese series pay an exciting tribute to Akira Toriyama, to reveal layers of the Z Warriors, like the styles of their stories.
So we are faced with the manga layer Dragon Ball #31 developed by Yoshifumi Tozuka, creator of Undead Unluck.
Dragon Ball marks a time for your current manga illustrators and writers. Akira Toriyama was a kind of role model for the current authors of mangas such as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen or Shingeki no Kyojin.
Most of these writers were summoned by the Shonen Jump magazine to create their verses of a Dragon Ball layer. The breeder of Undead Unluck has the Namekian arc, which is the same as Freeza.
And so Gohan and Krillin appear as protagonists in the layer, while we search for the Dragon Balls on the planet of Piccolo and Dendê. At the end, you see Bulma chasing you in one of her ships across the vast lands of Namek. Everything in the unmistakable style of Yoshifumi Tozuka.
Yoshifumi Tozuka is a Japanese mangaka born in 1990. It aired in 2014 as the one-shot “Uchuu Kankou C-Arc” and its first series, Undead Unluck, began to be serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2020.
Undead Unluck is a series of events, comedy and fantasy that follows the story of Fuko Izumo, a girl with the chance of attracting misfortune for those around her. One day, she discovers Andy, a “Denier” with the ability not to die, and together they embark on an adventure to find a way to break Fuko’s curse.
The series was a commercial and critical success, with more than 3 million copies sold in Japan and an adaptation for anime that will be released in 2023.