Dragon Boy (manga)

Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater
Cover of Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 1
鳥山明○作劇場 (Toriyama Akira Marusaku Gekijō)
Manga
Written by	Akira Toriyama
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Imprint	Jump Comics
Original run	July 8, 1983 – August 4, 1997
Volumes	3

Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater (Japanese: 鳥山明○作劇場（とりやまあきらマルさくげきじょう）, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira Marusaku Gekijō^?) is a series of three manga tankōbon released between 1983 and 1997 that collect several one-shots written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. The stories were originally published in various Shueisha magazines between 1978 and 1994.

Four stories featured in the series, Pink, Kennosuke-sama, Cashman – Saving Soldier and Go! Go! Ackman, were adapted into short anime films. The three volumes were re-released with the suffix Kai (改, "updated" or "altered") added to the title as part of the Shueisha Jump Remix imprint between June 2003 and 2004. The Manga Theater series has been released in several European countries, including France and Italy.

The first installment, Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 1, was published on July 8, 1983. Re-released under the Shueisha Jump Remix imprint in June 2003.

The second installment, Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 2, was published on March 10, 1988. Re-released under the Shueisha Jump Remix imprint in July 2003.

The third installment, Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 3, was published on August 4, 1997. Re-released under the Shueisha Jump Remix imprint in June 2004.

In 2008, Shueisha released a two-volume bunkoban series of Toriyama's short works, entitled Akira Toriyama Mankanzenseki (鳥山明満漢全席, lit. "An Emperor's Feast of Akira Toriyama"). This version, while omitting several one-shots from Manga Theater, includes the two-chapter Alien X-Peke (1996), published after the end of Dragon Ball, as well as the full-color seinen manga Lady Red (1987). The second volume also includes "The Anime and Me" (1989), a full-color autobiographical strip from the first Dragon Ball Z Anime Special magazine, as well as a new afterword by the author. The first volume was published on August 8, 2008, and the second on September 18, 2008.

...
Wikipedia