So, another user finished dumping the whole original series of Saint Seiya () in a series of threads over the past month. Inspired by that, I'm going to dump all of Gash Bell, AKA Zatch bell, since it's a criminally underrated series.
I'll be making a thread roughly around 5pm EST every day (Starting early todayf), and will post 1 volume every day until the whole run is posted..
Please refrain from making lengthy posts till I finish the volume in each thread (short replies to pages are fine), and don't post images at all till then, so the image limit isn't hit till i'm done.
Gash bell is a Shonen action/comedy series by Makoto Raiku. The basic plot premise is that there are 100 kids from the demon world who come into the normal world to fight until only 1 is left standing, who is crowned king.
You should give a shit about it because it has fantastic art, great humor, really good fights with great choreography that are won by tactics and planning, (for the most part), and has a lot of legitimately emotional scenes which help make the what would otherwise be generic power of friendship stuff seem genuine, since it brings characters out of legitimately depressing and sad circumstances.
Angel Phillips
>Where did you get the scans from?
The scans are from Null's release of the series, which can be found on Mangasaurus, Bato,to. Their site is: n-u-l-l.net/
As far as I know, these are the best quality scans of the manga in English. I know there's a few chapters of the Faudo arc done by a Portuguese group that have even better quality/higher resolution, but that's in Portuguese and not even the whole arc is at that quality level.
Ebookjapan has the whole series purchasable digitally in japanese at a superior resolution and quality then the scans i'm using, but nobody has ripped them yet (I plan to eventually once I can afford to).
Jaxson Lopez
>Hey, wait, you said Zatch bell? So this is that shitty pokemon rip off, right?
Gash bell got localized as Zatch Bell in north america around a decade ago, primarily with the anime being the big draw. The thing is, the anime is shit, even the original japanese one. It's santized compared to the manga (especially the localized version), and it outright cuts out the entire last arc. I assure you the manga is way, way better.
But admittedly, it starts out pretty rough, and most of what I said before about the reasons why it's good won't really be true untill a pretty good ways in, especially the art.
Jose Baker
If any user has some suggestions of how I can condense the FAQ, i'd apperciate it, BTW.
I'm kind of shit at wording things
Kevin Price
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Lincoln Cook
Readers may want to keep the designs of these chess pieces in mind, they might show up again later...
David Wright
I remenber reading posts highly praising this serie around here. Good luck for the dump.
Luis Howard
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Isaac Stewart
It admittedly starts out as a pretty generic shonen series. It'll be a full arc in before it really starts to get good. Not that the first 70 chapters are bad, but it's just not as remarkablee.
Cameron Martinez
>Gash Bell Aw shit nigga
Matthew Bell
Geez these scans start out really rough. It gets better later on I swear.
Wyatt Cruz
Also I hope I don't get banned for these pages
This isn't lewd I swear
Jackson Turner
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Gavin Flores
>you will never be minding your own business when a naked shota riding on a hawk shows up at your window to go on an adventure with you to be the best there is
Landon Barnes
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Julian Diaz
Please do not sexualize the Gash
Brandon Miller
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Jacob Jenkins
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Austin Johnson
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Noah Thompson
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Matthew Evans
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Alexander Ross
>implying there's anything sexual with what I said He was naked and they do go on adventures.
Isaac Bell
"Unu" is apparently one of those speech mannerism's in the japanese language that doesn't translate to other langauges.
I'm not entirely sure what it means, but in the series it's remaked later that Gash speaks in a regal manner, which that's an example of, so...
The wiki also notes
> in the original version, Zatch often ends his sentences with "(na) no da", an expression of emphasis.
Joseph Myers
Good luck dumping all that shit. Must be so dull. Have a star ⭐
Dylan Stewart
I'd actually like somebody who into's moon to clarify that for me, since I plan on typsetting and editing better scans of the series myself in a few months and i'd like to be able to include a translator note on it.
Alexander Roberts
It gives me an excuse to rattle off random trivia about the series so it's still fun.
I just hope people actually read the whole thing as I post it.
Tyler Hall
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Thomas Myers
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Benjamin Brooks
As someone who dumped shit before, people are always reading as you dump. Don't worry. Feels lonely as shit in these threads but you are not alone. See you
Ayden Perez
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Leo Garcia
That's because those were color pages so they take a toll. Hope you dump the entire series user, I'll be following.
About the FAQ, I think you should just write something short describing the series like what I used in the OP of Saint Seiya, otherwise it's just too much text.
Andrew Evans
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Eli Hill
Well, it's not just the color pages, really.
Justin King
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Julian Perez
The rest is a lot cleaner though. Darker pages are mostly the color ones.
Nathan Nguyen
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Benjamin Perez
Yeah, but I mean relative to the Faudo and Clear note arc scans, which are fantastic.
Jason Howard
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Jack Parker
>my son is kind of a total faggot, so go there and fix him up Best dad
Andrew Hall
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Isaiah King
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Parker Howard
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Angel Ramirez
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Blake Reyes
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Colton Robinson
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Cameron Fisher
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Austin Brown
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Bentley Morales
Man, Kiyomaro used to be a total cunt.
Jordan Cruz
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Samuel King
yep
Levi Smith
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Eli Sullivan
He is a cunt for the majority of the first volumes
Isaiah Cook
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Charles Brooks
>fuZAKERUna Bravo Makoto
Lincoln James
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Isaiah Reed
I'd have to see the actual line in Japanese, but most likely it's referring to using the negative form -nu instead of -nai, which is a lot more formal.
Angel Butler
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Hudson Rivera
You should put >Konjiki no Gash!!
as Subject in the OP
Lincoln Morgan
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Nathaniel Evans
I'll add it to the template
Kevin Thomas
Are either of you the SS dumper? I might actually need to leave in an hour and I might not be done then. If that happens, i'd really apperciate you finishing up volume 1 for me. The rar of it is here
Would it really have been that hard to just Google "Gash" before making it the name of your main character?
Luke Butler
It's a japanese series, user, do you go and google the word of something you wanna use in other languages before you decide on it?
Andrew King
That was one hell of a way to start a new series
Nicholas Hill
Anyways, this early on, a lot of the power of friendship and bullying stuff seems cliche, but the series gets really adept at making legitimately sad circumstances that hit you in the gut, and then using friendship as a theme to lift characters out of the despair.
Next volume has the earliest example of it being pulled off really well.
Bentley Wright
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Evan Moore
I will never forget the dream chapter Kiyomaro has near the end
Owen Myers
I always thought it was funny how Gash had very distinctive voice actors both in English and Japanese.
In the original he has the same voice as Chopper and in the dub, he's voiced by Jimmy Neutron. It was weird as fuck.
Carson Collins
It's not near the end, really, it's right at the end of the third arc/start of the 4th/final arc.
But yeah it's pretty ridiculous.
I read all of gash's line in his english voice. Or my memory of his english voice, anyways, I went back and listened to it and in reality it's not as good as I remember it.
Kio suffers from it even more.
Speaking of the anime, i'd post OP's and music like the saint seiya dumper did but I don't into the anime that much because the manga is just so much better
Gabriel White
Suzume was so great that I almost felt bad that she had no chance to get Kiyomaru
I always loved the DYNAMIC SPEED LINES in the art that the anime couldn't really capture that well. It's just so intense
Nicholas King
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Xavier Scott
This page always reminds me of that one page of Jojo: DiU with Enigma when the gun comes out of the folded paper
Ayden Bailey
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Jeremiah Cruz
>Gash's fucking face
Lucas Gonzalez
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Lucas Gray
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Caleb Diaz
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Jack Parker
You'll see this face and these eyes on Gash a lot in the series from here on out.
