List of Doraemon chapters
The Japanese children's manga series "Doraemon" was written and illustrated by Fujiko Fujio. It was serialized in various children's manga magazines published by Shogakukan. Total of eight-hundred and fifty chapters were collected in tankōbon by Shogakukan under imprint. The first volume was published on July 31, 1974 and the last forty-fifth volume on April 26, 1996. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a pre-teen boy called .
Dragon Ball (manga)
"Dragon Ball" was serialized in the manga anthology "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from issue No. 51 on December 3, 1984, to No. 25 on June 5, 1995. As the readership of "Dragon Ball" grew up, the magazine changed to reflect their changing interests. The 519 individual chapters were collected into 42 "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha from September 10, 1985, through August 4, 1995. These saw any color or partly colored artwork grayscaled. For the series' 24th anniversary, the "tankōbon" received new cover art that has been used on all reprints since 2009. Between December 4, 2002, and April 2, 2004, the series was released in a collection of 34 "kanzenban" volumes that retain the color artwork from its "Weekly Shōnen Jump" run. This edition received newly drawn cover illustrations, and each volume included a poster of their respective cover image. These new illustrations were initially drawn in ink, scanned into a computer and colored using Corel Painter. Midway through, Toriyama changed to drawing them on a graphics tablet and coloring them with Adobe Photoshop.