Jaco the Galactic Patrolman Paperback – January 6, 2015

Any fan of Dragon Ball and the work of Akira Toriyama will love this quick read.Taking place ten years before the events of the first chapter of Dragon Ball, this story follows Jaco, who is a Galactic Patrolman (Space Police). He's sent to Earth after the Galactic Police receive a warning that a Saiyan Pod is on its way to the planet. Jaco needs to find that pod and destroy the Saiyan within before it can exterminate life on Earth. However, Jaco's ship is damaged as he lands and he finds himself stranded on Earth with a hermit named Omori. Omori is a former scientist and discovers that Jaco's ship is missing its fuel supply, which is an extremely rare and expensive metal on Earth. Joined by Tights Briefs (Bulma's older sister) Jaco needs to find the Saiyan pod, recover his fuel supply and return home.This story contains exactly the kind of comedy and action you expect form Akira Toriyama and acts as a nice extension of the Dragon Ball series which adds some interesting characters. On top of that, the manga also includes a short story featuring Bardock and his wife Gine and takes place just before the destruction of Planet Vegeta.With not one but two stories, this manga has it all for Dragon Ball fans and is a must-read.

I want to preface this by saying I don't like Dragon Ball Super at all, it fails to capture what the original series did for me. I'm not sure why I decided to pick this up having said that but I'm glad I did. Toriyama knocks it out of the park with this one. The humor is on-point the entire time and I found myself laughing out loud at a few parts. The plot is simple but engaging enough to keep you reading by introducing new characters and uncovering more struggles for them to go through to help Jaco get home. If youre expecting action like you probably would from Dragon Ball you won't find it here, but that's definitely ok. Theres a very minor action scene, if you could even call it that it's that minor, in the middle of it but this story is solely focused on the humor, characters and the interactions between them. And if you still aren't sold because you like DBZ too much, they have included Goku's origin story as a bonus chapter at the end. A nice touch for the fans.Overall I very much enjoyed this spin-off from Toriyama. It's very reminiscent of the light-heartedness I adored in the original Dragon Ball series. And if youre like me where you also do not like Dragon Ball Super or don't like Jaco from that show, maybe give this a shot anyway because it might change your mind.

This is an amazing story on it's own by Akira Toriyama. However, it's even better if you love Dragonball, which I assume is the reason a lot of people are buying this. This book adds new lore to the Dragonball universe, and elaborates on some existing lore. Jaco is going to be making an appearance in the new Dragonball movie, and you will enjoy that movie even more if you read this book.When it comes to the actual content, you will be dissapointed if you are expecting huge fight scenes. There is little fighting, but nothing long-lasting or extremely exciting. This story is about the characters more than anything, and is very light-hearted. It also has the classic Akira Toriyama comedy, which personally I don't really enjoy as much but it works very well in this book and there were actually some parts where I had a pretty good laugh. Overall, I would recommend this EVEN if you are not a Dragonball Z/Dragonball fan. However if you are a fan, I would say it's a necessity.

Jaco The Galactic Patrolman is Toriyama at his best.Jaco is a member of the Galactic Patrol sent to Earth by the Galactic King with a mission; gather information about Earth and stop a powerful alien from annihilating it. Distracted by a video in his space ship, he bumps into the moon and crash lands on an island whose sole inhabitant is a scientist who is attempting to perfect time travel. Jaco decides to live with the scientist while his ship waits to be repaired, and he struggles to adjust to and understand Earth customs.Wacky adventures await our hero as the time of his mission approaches, where he must find this alien and kill it or Earth will suffer devastation.A bonus chapter can be found at the end of this book, which is about the alien and his home world.It's classic Toriyama comedy and adventure that is sure to please all ages.