#furujun

[secretsofdbz]

Artists, colorists, and more? A call to action :p

Today, I'd like to talk about Furusawa Jun'ya, aka Furujun, one of my faaaaave DB artists ever. He sadly passed away on May 1st 2020 (when his boat disappeared) and he is the one who created the most iconic (and only DB pin-up) Trunks piece in the franchise.

(as well as all other iconic Trunks pieces you can think of, because Furujun was very, very gay for Trunks and we stan)

Anyway why this, why now? Because a little while ago I got my dirty, DIRTY hands on "The Works", his first published sketchbook after he became an official Shueisha artist, and it turns out that book not only contains the prep sketchwork for this illustration, but also the lineart.

And today, I'd like to share these in particular, perhaps it could become a trend to color, edit or redraw this piece for Furusawa's death anniversary?

Please tag me if you participate!

And perhaps we can make it a #dbredraw trend <3

#dbredraw #future trunks #furusawa junya #furusawa jun'ya #furujun #trunks briefs

[dbfandom]

May 8th is Gohan's day!

Here's another translation I did of one of Furusawa Jun'ya's entries from the doujinshi Orange Juice 2 (published 1989, July 30th).

Furujun (Furusawa's pen name) later became an official illustrator for Shueisha and Toei.

Note: I translated 父悟空 (Father-Goku with Father used as a last name instead of 孫 (Son)) as Dad!Ku.

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#ごはんの日 #悟飯の日 #Gohansday #gohan #goku #son gohan #dragon ball #dragon ball Z #doujinshi #furusawa jun'ya #furusawa junya #my translations #furujun #japanese to english

[that-guys-anime-archive]

From "みんな愛のせいね2", a Dragon Ball Z anthology doujinshi by the circle "みっくすSaらだα":

I didn't realize that one of the contributors was Furujun!! This is the only illustration of his in this doujinshi, but the back of the book advertises some of his other works. (Orange Juice 3, and a Goku x Chi-Chi anthology titled "BEST COLOR")

I don't own the first "みんな愛のせいね" doujinshi (I could find very little info about it in general) so I'm curious if he participated in that one as well 🤔

#.txt #dragon ball z #dbz #all of the doujinshis by this circle have been wonderful #the third one being nearly 300 pages and having an interview with Toriyama is kind of insane though LOL

[cloudykino]

LOOKING FOR DOUJINSHI HERO BY JUNYA FURUSAWA/"FURUJUN"

ok so hear me out. I've looked EVERYWHERE and I've barely been able to find a few actual pages of this thing and they are rarely scans which is really sad, since many seem to own it and it's pretty rare and expensive these days it's also very long clocking at around 120 pages so it has plenty of artwork, I've attempted looking through Japanese sources but it's very hard not knowing Japanese myself, if anyone knows a source or you actually have the book, I'd really love to see it since I love his work :) thanks!

#dragon ball #dragon ball z #db #dbz #SOCIETY IF JUNYA FURUSAWA WAS STILL ALIVE #rip :( #he left some pretty great work behind though

[80s90sdragonballart]

As I discussed in this post from a few days ago, Jun’ya Furusawa, one of the most prominent of all the official Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z promotional artists of the 80s and 90s (and who had sadly passed away last year), was also himself a massively dedicated fan of the series before, during, and well after his time as one of the anime’s many promo artists. Under the penname “Furujun” he’d gotten his start originally as a notable Dragon Ball Doujinshi artist during his college years before his talents were noticed by Bird Studios and lead to him being hired on as one of the Dragon Ball anime’s promo artists. But even all throughout during his time as a promo artist, as well as during the years afterward since then (well after the series’ original conclusion), Furusawa never stopped being a passionate DB fan, and continued drawing Dragon Ball fan art for his own personal enjoyment.  In honor of his passing one year ago, I have here collected a bunch of his own personal Dragon Ball fan artwork that he drew on his own time both during and well long after his tenure as an official promotional artist. Normally this isn’t a blog that collects or posts fan art of any sort: but given Furusawa’s massive, massive prominence as an official Dragon Ball promotional artist during the series’ original run and how much of his work makes up such a large chunk of this blog’s content, I think its more than fair to make an exception just this one time in honor of the man’s outstanding work and his enduring legacy as one of the many talented artists (aside from Akira Toriyama himself) who helped make Dragon Ball as special as it was during its original run. RIP Jun’ya “Furujun” Furusawa ??/??/???? - 5/1/2020

#Dragon Ball #Dragon Ball Z #Jun'ya Furusawa #Junya Furusawa #Furujun #Son Goku #Goku #Chi Chi #Vegeta #Son Gohan #Gohan #Kuririn #Tenshinhan #Chaozu #Piccolo #Oozaru #Bardock #Toma #Selypa #Pambukin #Toteppo #Akira Toriyama #23rd Tenkaichi Budokai #Freeza #Namek

[saiyanb]

By: Furujun

From the book “Hero”

Published 1992/12/29

#Furujun #Gochi #Goku #Chichi #Gohan #Christmas

[miginaka]

Source

DRAGON BALL Z SHITAJIKI by Junya Furusawa aka Furujun 

Animetopia production

#dragon ball z vintage #Dragon Ball Z #DBZ #vegeta #piccolo #goku #gohan #Akira Toriyama #Toei Animation

[inajitsu-blog]

【腐】◆ログ⑥ by くず餅

※Permission to upload this was given by the artist.

#diamond no ace #ace of diamond #furuya satoru #isashiki jun #furujun #in honor of jun's birthday #Reposted by inajitsu

[secretsofdbz]

Someone sold this original Furujun manuscript online today/yesterday, and boy, it's so beautiful... Furusawa Junya my beloved we miss you so much!

#furujun #furusawa junya #chichi #goku #doujinshi

[dbfandom]

Here's another one I translated! It's a one-pager from Furusawa Jun'ya, which can be found in one of his anthologies (Hero).

Enjoy some terrible gag manga humor!!

If you like my work and want to support my buying habits for old doujins for preservation purposes, please consider buying me a ko-fi

(this one was far more expensive than one ko-fi though haha Furusawa my beloved is expensive :'( )

#krillin #vegeta #gohan #dragon ball #doujinshi #dragon ball z #my translations #japanese to english #furujun

[dbfandom]

hey! just wondering, do you know what was doujin scene was like for db in its early history? like before Z started airing/the saiyan saga started getting published? what characters were most popular, what dynamics were getting written about, what the tone of works was, if it even had a convention presence at all etc. thank you!

Kami fucking Dende you're asking me to go back to pre-1988 lmaooo I'm a good archeologist bue that's woah. You guys know I'm old, but not that old right?!

(Reminder that the chapter in which Vegeta kills Cui on Namek came out in the Weekly Shonen Jump just before the Berlin wall fell)

So I did some digging to find stuff published before 1990 to have a glance at what existed, some stuff did make it to online catalogues, and truth is that the scene was still in its infancy back then, especially for a gag shonen that didn't have many pairing options. The doujin scene truly went big from 1996 onwards (aka when the Comiket moved to a larger exposition center).

Even Orange Juice 2 which came out in July 89 still has Raditz stuff in it...

This was drawn by Junya Furusawa (pen name Furujun) by the way, who was a big GoChi doujin guy.. He later did a looooot of promo art. Some of which you may know ;-) He kept doing fanart for his own enjoyment though. (in order: GoChi stuff from 91 and two promo arts he did for Toei/Shueisha)

(We owe this guy a lot, F in the chat please)

Anyway back to the 80s.

I surprisingly found someone who did a lot of Tenshinhan & Chiaotzu (Chaozu) stuff back then. And I do mean & and not / eh xD

Here's the thing; I believe those who were active 35 years ago probably moved on to other projects and left their doujin years behind them; it's kind of like your party days in your 20s, they use pen names and the stuff they created quietly falls in oblivion... If they made it to the pro-world of mangakas and assistants. Even more so if they made it to the corporate "proper job" world!

I will ask though, just in case something appears!

Thanks for the question!

#doujinshi #80s #junya furusawa #furujun

[dbfandom]

May 7th is Gochi day!

Here's a translation I did of one of Furusawa Jun'ya's entries from the doujinshi Orange Juice 2 (published 1989 July 30th).

Furujun (that was his pen name) later became an official illustrator for Shueisha and Toei.

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#悟チの日 #Gochiday #Gochi #悟空 #チチ #goku #chichi #dragon ball #junya furusawa #furusawa jun'ya #doujinshi #my translation work #悟チチの日 #my translations #japanese to english

[80s90sdragonballart]

Been quite awhile since I’ve even logged into tumblr, much less updated this blog. I know I’m about a year belated with this, but this is nonetheless far, far too relevant to this blog’s main purpose for me not to comment on. Early last year Jun’ya Furusawa passed away. I’m sure even most of the die hard DB fans who are reading this might be wondering “Who the hell is Jun’ya Furusawa?”  You very well may not know his name, but you CERTAINLY know his artwork for the series. In fact, a VAST chunk of it makes up a huge, *huge* selection of this blog’s images!  There’s frustratingly little biographical information about him that’s out there. Hell, I couldn’t even find an actual date of birth on the guy for this post! But from what information is available: Jun’ya Furusawa’s relationship with Dragon Ball started out sometime in the early to mid 1980s, when he was simply a college student and fan of the series. A talented artist himself who was able to almost seamlessly mimic Akira Toriyama’s signature style, he had drawn numerous pieces of fan art and Doujinshi (fan manga) for Dragon Ball that he’d submitted to numerous anime magazines (under the pen name “Furujun”). Before long, his work caught the attention of Bird Studios, who hired him on to be one of Dragon Ball’s numerous official promotional artists, a position he held for the latter parts of original Dragon Ball’s run, and the entirety of Dragon Ball Z’s run. During this time, Furusawa had drawn an absolute TON of the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime’s promotional art pieces that were used on literally *countless* posters, wallscrolls, calendars, shitajiki (pencil boards, which were very popular forms of merchandise for anime and manga throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s), trading cards, video game and toy box art, magazine ads, and so on. Early last year in 2020, evidently Furusawa had left on some sort of sailing trip aboard a small ship, but went missing and his body has to date not been found. He was declared legally dead on May 1st 2020. Again I cannot overstate this: it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to have been a fan of Dragon Ball for ANY length of time and to have NOT seen much of Furusawa’s artwork, many of which have gone on to become flat out iconic images that most of us associate with the series. If you’re on this blog, you’ll see TONS of his work plastered all throughout here. Its not at all an exaggeration to say that Jun’ya Furusawa’s Dragon Ball promotional artwork is just as much the “face” of the series in its classic run as Toriyama’s own artwork was. Even well after Furusawa had finished his professional relationship with Dragon Ball as its official promotional artist (sometime around the start of Dragon Ball GT I believe), he remained a fan throughout the rest of his life, and continued drawing fan art and various pieces of Dragon Ball art on his own time for his own enjoyment. By all accounts, he was a VERY enthusiastic fan of the series, its characters, and the whole Dragon World, and his palpable love for Dragon Ball very much shined through in most of his pieces. From what I can gather, evidently Furusawa was also a massive fan of the non-Saiyan characters (Tenshinhan, Yamucha, Chaozu, Kuririn, etc) and their continued presence in much of the latter bulk of Z’s promotional art was evidently at least in some part due to his own insistence on continuing to draw them, even well after they had drifted into becoming more ancillary characters. Unfortunately, anime promotional artists are so rarely ever properly credited, so it is exceedingly hard to narrow down exactly who did which piece of promotional art: Furusawa did however release an art book containing the sketch material for much of his work for the series throughout the 80s and 90s sometime around 2015 I think (or thereabouts), so that at least helps narrow down some significant chunk of which promo works are his. It’ll be a long, painstaking process, but at some point I do intend to go back through this blog’s archives and retroactively add Furusawa’s name to each piece that’s his (as I would also like to be able to do to every other classic 80s and 90s Dragon Ball promo art piece posted here, were it at all possible to narrow them all down). For the time being though, even if its more than a year late, I just wanted to dedicate a post in this blog - which is dedicated with immense amounts of love and respect to SO MUCH of his work, as well as that of the countless other often uncredited Dragon Ball promotional artists - to the man who’s art and passion for this series had come to define Dragon Ball’s image almost as much as that of its creator, Akira Toriyama throughout the vast bulk of its original 1980s and 1990s Japanese run. Anyone reading this blog who happens to know when Furusawa’s birthday actually is, feel free to DM it to me, and I’ll add it into this post. RIP  Jun’ya “Furujun” Furusawa ??/??/???? - 5/1/2020 Even though its been quite awhile since I’ve last updated this blog, I do now have more pieces of 80s and 90s promo art to add to it, so finally after some years of inactivity on my end, expect more updates on here.

#Jun'ya Furusawa #Junya Furusawa #Dragon Ball #Dragon Ball Z #Furujun #anime