

Without a power source to radio his superiors, Jaco is stuck on Earth with the reluctant Omori being his only hope of helping him earn enough Sky Gold to power up his damaged spacecraft. The problem is that Jaco is clumsy to a fault and colliding with the Moon has forced him to crash-land on an island inhabited by only a grumpy old scientist named Omori. The Galactic Patrol has sent Jaco on a mission to Earth to stop an incoming hostile alien from taking over the planet. Jaco the Galactic Patrolman is a comedic science fiction tale about an inept but eager alien named Jaco, who is, as you may have guessed, an officer of the Galactic Patrol. Slump and Dragon Ball, wrote this manga for the 45th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump. 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, famed creator of Dr. 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).
