Shortly after this, the government informs Omori that he will have to vacate the island within a week due so that they can build a luxury hotel for politicians on the land. Omori hates humanity after the loss of his wife and lives isolated on the island where he previously studied a way to control time.Īfter realizing that Jaco is indeed an alien sent to protect the Earth, Omori agrees to help repair his damaged space ship only to find that an extremely expensive metal may be required to power the ship. Unfortunately, Jaco ends up crash landing near an island where only the elderly scientist Omori resides. The Galactic Police have detected an alien pod being sent to the planet Earth and due to the Earth’s low level of technology and strength they have dispatched Jaco to the planet to put a stop to the alien once it arrives. Viz has collected the entirety of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman in one volume and now that it has been released, is this a story worth reading? While he has long since finished the Dragon Ball manga, he hasn’t stopped writing small stories and in 2013 he wrote Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, a series that takes place in the world of Dragon Ball. With his manga Dragon Ball he managed to create a series that to this day remains one of the most recognized anime in the West with Dragon Ball Z. Viz released the collected edition in English (both in print and in digital form) in January 2015.Ī complete breakdown of all eleven chapters as well as the “ Dragon Ball Minus” bonus chapter from the collected edition, each including detailed notes (name puns, in-jokes/references, etc.), can be found below.Akira Toriyama is a name that almost every anime and manga fan knows. A digital collected version was released 04 July 2014. Tsubasa Yonaga and Issei Futamata were cast as Jaco and Omori, respectively.Ī collected edition of the manga was released Japan 04 April 2014 in both regular ( tankōbon-sized) and “ Super Elite” ( kanzenban-sized) editions.

In early 2014, Shueisha produced a four-installment “Vomic” (“Voiced Comic”) covering the first two chapters of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman. Both author commentaries can be found in our “ Translations” section ( Comments #1 / Comments #2).

Accompanying Chapters 1 and 2 were bonus paid content in the form of special, lengthy comments from author Akira Toriyama about the development and production of the new series.

Dragon Ball Digital Color Edition Releaseĭuring the month of August 2013, the Jump LIVE! app for iOS and Android provided free-to-read digital versions of the chapters every Monday (for example, Chapter 1 arrived in the app on 05 August, as Chapter 4 was released in print).

Galactic patrolman