Cross Epoch

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A cross over devised by One Piece author, Eiichiro Oda, and Dragon Ball Z author, Akira Toriyama.

The cross over is one chapter long and displays the characters living in a world together.
One character from each series is teamed up with their 'counterpart' from the other.

Luffy and Goku (the strongest/lead)
Zoro and Piccilo (the badasses)
Nami and Bulma (the 'babes')
Sanji and Roshi (the perverts)
then Vegeta is a lord with Robin, Usopp, and Trunks as his loyal crew
...
It's quite amusing and very fun

So I hunted this down after hearing it was a crossover between One Piece and Dragonball, because who wouldn't want to read something like that? You have two wonderful artists combining their already loved characters together in what should be an awesome story, right?

Wrong.

The story is completely and totally random, and had I not read One Piece or Dragonball I would have been at a total loss. It makes slight references to minor plot points of the other two stories, but it does not have the "pirates" or "z-fighters" themes at all. It's just these really random characters going around doing their (what we can ... assume) daily routines. It's totally plotless.

The art is wonderful. It's well drawn, the characters fit together seamlessly, and there's a lot of action in the background. Very common of the OP and DB series. In fact, the art is probably the best thing about this manga, because you can see (with official art!) what the characters look like together.

The characters, again, are wonderful. However, they are also using the same personalities from their mother series, so if you haven't read OP or DB before you would be at a total loss as to what is happening, or why they are doing certain things within the manga.

Enjoyment value was okay; again, it's OP and DB, and even if it is a totally crack story, it was amusing to see some characters together. Props out to Sanji and Roshi hanging out together. That was awesome.

Overall, if you have read Dragonball and One Piece, you should probably read Cross Epoch just to say you did. It's not a great story, but it's still fun to look at the art and see what characters Toriyama and Oda decided should work together, based on their personalities and/or gender. It's not any sort of monumental story that you'll dig out a great plot from, but I would say that it is worth reading.

Ah, let's see here. The characters are nothing like themselves from their respective manga. The saving grace is the art. The story is...what? Look, this was the most unenjoyable read since Medaka Box. Just save yourself the awfulness and keep your eyes away from this one-shot.

Oh, and I couldn't even tell if Vegeta was a villain in this, and where was Gohan?? Wasting of the dragon ball, why does Piccolo need a train when he can fly? Why is Krillin a conductor? Master Roshi choosing sex over saving people? Though a good jab at his personality, it is in no way how he would've ... acted in Dragon Ball.