Android 18 takes on several different looks in a new series of Dragon Ball fan art portraits.
Artist Abel Vera showed off their versatility by redrawing the powerful android warrior in nine different styles -- the first portrait presents a recreation of Android 18 as she originally appeared in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, while the other eight portraits show how the character would've looked if she had appeared in other popular anime and manga series, including Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Naruto and Bleach. In addition to posting each portrait on their Instagram, Vera also uploaded a video showing how they created each drawing to their YouTube channel.
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In addition to Android 18, Vera has also created art featuring Vegeta, Frieza and Attack on Titan's Eren Jaeger, also drawn in the style of other famous manga creators. These works can be seen on Vera's Instagram page. In addition to their stylistic exercises, the artist has also posted several incredibly detailed paintings based on Demon Slayer, Overwatch, Pokemon and their own original creations.
Fans looking to see more Dragon Ball characters drawn in the style of other famous manga creators should look to publisher Shueisha's Dragon Ball Super Gallery Project. The four-year long project picks a famous Shonen Jump manga author every month and tasks them with redrawing one of Akira Toriyama's classic manga covers in their own style. So far, the initiative has seen contributions from Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto, Bleach creator Tite Kubo, Chainsaw Man author Tatsuki Fujimoto, and most recently, Demon Slayer's reclusive creator, Koyoharu Gotouge. The project will release a new cover every month until Nov. 2024, the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Dragon Ball.
More androids will join the Dragon Ball cast in the series' next movie, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. The new movie is scheduled to be released in Japan next April and will see the introduction of two new warriors, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, who are reportedly new androids built by Goku's old foes, the Red Ribbon Army. The movie may not be the only Dragon Ball anime this year either, as series producer Akio Iyoku recently teased that there will be more Dragon Ball Super anime this year besides the movie. Details about this possible new release are still hard to come by, but fans are speculating that Iyoku was teasing the return of the Dragon Ball Super TV anime series, which ended in 2017. Since the anime's conclusion, the Dragon Ball Super manga has published the Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga and is nearing the end of its current Granolah the Survivor saga, neither of which have received an animated adaptation yet.
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