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[DBP]
The Dragon Ball Project
The Code
Strictly Honored
Dropped or stopped distributing that title when an official license hit their territory, the gold standard of The Code.
Profile
Founded by Jason Doyama, one of the earliest scanlation projects ever documented, alongside the Kimagure Orange Road Project, working the same crude MS Paint text-over-scan method years before IRC-era groups formalized the process. Doyama closed the project down after Viz licensed the manga, a real, on-record instance of a group actually honoring the license rather than continuing to run.
Signature style
Text laid directly over scanned pages by hand in MS Paint, the literal starting point of manga scanlation as a practice before "scanlation" was even a word for it.
Linked lore 1
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Dragon Ball Z
Doyama's Dragon Ball Project
Fansub & Scanlation History
Pre-1992 · Usenet & FTP
