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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, thanks to poor reception of its gameplay, and never released outside of Asia ''Dragon Ball Online'' was noted for including series creator Akira Toriyama, as one of lead designers of the game]]. Toriyama [[Word of God|had noted]] the plot of the game is ''[[Canon|is considered canon]]'' to the world of ''Dragon Ball''.

 

 

 

''[[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.

There were many [[Non-Serial Movie|Non Serial Movies]] (only a few could be wedged into the series' timeline) released at least once a year, three set in the ''Dragon Ball'' timeline and thirteen for ''Dragon Ball Z''. Two made-for-TV movies were made for ''Dragon Ball Z'', which are technically in [[Canon]]. There was also a seventeenth feature film based on the original series produced to commemorate the [[Milestone Celebration|tenth anniversary]] of the franchise, as well as a web special in 2008 produced to commemorating the 40th anniversary of ''[[Shonen Jump]]''.

 

 

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".

 

 

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>

 

 

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