Dragon Ball Book Trailer Released
The Dao of Dragon Ball has an exciting new trailer!
Over the weekend I taught myself how to use Adobe After Effects, and with the help of a template and the creative inspiration of a new book cover, I crafted this video.
It’s a short teaser of what the book contains and why it might interest you, and I put a LOT of time into it (though the majority of that was spent with trial and error through After Effects and Flash), so I hope you guys dig it.
Feel free to check the trailer out on the home page or at YouTube for the full size version.
New Dragon Ball Book Cover
The theme for the book cover was to try and capture some of Goku’s personality in a simple and clean way. I borrowed the orange from the color of his dogi, the blue from his boots, belt and shirt, and the yellow from his Super Saiya-jin hair.
The logo consists of the orange star from Orange Star High School combined with a Daoist yin-yang in the colors already mentioned.
And I chose a simple but large font that was easy to read from far away as well as in the form of a tiny thumbnail, such as you might see on Amazon books.
The characters below the yin-yang are “Long Qiu Dao” (in Chinese) and translate as “Dragon Ball Dao,” or in other words, The Dao of Dragon Ball. This way it becomes clear at a glance that the book contains East Asian content, and perhaps that will fascinate someone long enough to open the book or read the back cover.
For comparisons sake, you can also check out another mockup I created for the cover in June of 2009.
Dragon Ball Book Progress Update
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your support on the site and to those who have pre-ordered the book. All of you are being very patient and I want to give you a progress update.
Right now I have two chapters left to finish before the rough draft of the book will be complete.
The first chapter is Immortal and Invincible. It will discuss the history of eastern martial arts and the mind body cultivation practices of Daoism, along with a practitioner’s quest for physical and spiritual immortality. It will also unveil how a body can, from an eastern paradigm, attain invincibility.
Both immortality and invincibility are themes in Dragon Ball, and I think this will be a very interesting chapter for fans of the series.
The second chapter is Divine Combat. This chapter will reveal the history of combat and hand to hand battles in the myths and legends of various cultures around the world, and how martial arts has always played a role in our culture, including our modern society, right on up to DBZ, martial arts flicks, anime, the Matrix and beyond. The connection between legendary battles in heaven, the deliverance of martial arts from gods to man, and the progress of martial arts in our civilization will be made very clear.
I’m sincerely trying to complete these chapters before the end of October, with an e-book release in November or December.
There are so many steps needed to complete a goal like this, and I’m becoming a better writer and person in the process, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to improve.
Of course I want this book out more than anyone and I would like to once again thank all of you for your patience and support.









