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'''''Dragon Ball''''' began as a manga written by [[Akira Toriyama]], chronicling the adventures of a cheerful monkey boy named Son Goku, in a story that was originally based off the Chinese tale ''[[Journey to the West]]''. The manga was soon adapted into one of the most popular animes ever made.
In ''Dragon Ball'', Goku and a huge cast of friends and enemies search for the magical Dragon Balls that they could use to make a wish come true. Of course, no sooner had someone gathered and used the Dragon Balls than they would have to be sought out again. On top of all this Goku was training up to fight in the periodic "Strongest Under the Heavens" tournament. The series is generally broken down into the following sagas: Emperor Pilaf, the first World Martial Arts Tournament, the Red Ribbon Army, Tienshinhan, King Piccolo and Piccolo Jr, with minor filler plots. After defeating these major threats to the world, Goku finally won the tournament on his third attempt and went off to get married.
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After that, the anime (and the American version of the manga from that point) experienced a name change to '''''Dragon Ball Z
Since ''Dragon Ball'' saga was a superhit, ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' was created as an anime-only continuation by [[Toei Animation|Toei]], with some character design by Toriyama. ''GT'' was not as well received, lasting 64 episodes before cancellation (although this was still much longer than originally intended), and [[Canon Discontinuity|its status as part of ''Dragon Ball'' canon has since been compromised]], because...
After several years of no new media beyond video games repeating the history, a reunion OVA ''Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!'' was produced and a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, simply titled ''[[Dragon Ball Online]]'' was released. While the MMO was short lived
The series's 20th anniversary brought with it ''Dragon Ball Kai'' (Kai meaning "revision"), an [[Updated Rerelease]] released incrementally starting in 2009. Kai not only scanned the original animation in HD as expected for a
After the ''Kai''
''[[Dragon Ball Xenoverse]]'' and its sequel salvage many elements of ''Online''{{'}}s plot and includes it in the post ''Battle of Gods'' canon. However, like most spinoff media, Toriyama only served an advisory role with minor art design.
The success of ''Dragon Ball'' is hard to dispute -- it became one of the biggest hits ever in Japan, it was the series that popularized manga and anime the most in Europe, Americans always have an idea of what it is when they hear its title, every single Latino who grew up during the
There were many [[Non-Serial Movie
To date, there's been three [[Live Action Adaptation
In the early 2000s, the manga was re-released in Japan as the "Kanzenban" or "Perfect Edition," with brand-new covers drawn by Toriyama. This condensed the original 42 volumes down to 34, included all of the original color pages, and every other issue included a booklet with a drawing by current, popular Shueisha artists, talking about how much ''Dragon Ball'' had influenced them. The final volume in 2004 included a new, adjusted ending written and drawn by Akira Toriyama.
Now also has a [[Spin-Off]] manga called ''[[Dragon Ball]] SD'' in Saikyo Jump by [[Naho Ooishi]], which began on December 3, 2010, exactly 26 years after the first chapter of the original series was first published in [[Shonen Jump]]. As of June 21, 2011 there's another [[Spin-Off]] called "Episode of Bardock", [[What If]] Bardock survived, also by Naho Ooishi; later in the same year the Bardock short received an [[Animated Adaptation]], and Shueshia started to reprint brand new copies of the ''original'' manga, all of it in its original 42 Volumes glory, although with a different stylized logo for "Dragon Ball".
There are a couple of [[Abridged Series]] out there, including ''[[Alternate Reality DBZ]]'' and the enormously popular version by [[Dragon Ball Abridged|Team Four Star]]. There's also a weekly [[Podcast]] hosted by the ''[[Daizenshuu EX]]'' crew. Finally, it's worth mentioning ''[[Dragon Ball Multiverse]]'', whose drawings are impossible to differentiate from the official material.
Needless to say, its impact on Shonen manga is, well... impressive — to say the very least, its influence now impossible to ''not'' see in almost any work in the subgenre. Although not the first employ the vast number of the tropes its most associated with, it became the de facto ''face'' of them. To this day, the Shonen work, and various Anime in general that use elements from, pay homage, or parody, this series continue its legacy. For proof, one need only look as far as these three anime — often considered the most current and direct of its spiritual successors: ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', and ''[[Bleach]]''.<ref> And its [[Fannage|popularity]] [[Memetic Mutation|levels are OVER NINE THOUSAND!]]</ref>
Among many others, also subject to [[The Wiki Rule]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131007013928/http://www.dragonballencyclopedia.com/qdb/Dragon_Ball_Encyclopedia Over here] (archived)
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