Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール , Hepburn: Doragon Bōru ) is a Japanese manga series writt and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. Originally serialized in Shueisha's shōn manga magazine Weekly Shōn Jump from 1984 to 1995, the 519 individual chapters were printed in 42 tankōbon volumes. Dragon Ball was inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West and Hong Kong martial arts films. It initially had a comedy focus but later became an action-packed fighting series. The story follows the advtures of Son Goku, from childhood to adulthood, as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the Dragon Balls, sev magical orbs which summon a wish-granting dragon wh gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several frids and battles villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls.
The manga was adapted into two anime series produced by Toei Animation: Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which were broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. A media franchise has built up around the series; among the merchandise, there have be both animated and live-action films, collectible trading card games, action figures, collections of soundtracks and video games. The series was licsed for an glish-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman tertainmt. The companies initially split the manga into two parts, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z to match the anime series but the most rect edition of the series was released under its original title.
Dragon Ball has become one of the most successful manga series of all time. Its initial serialization in Weekly Shōn Jump was partly responsible for the magazine reaching its highest circulation of 6.53 million weekly sales. Its collected tankōbon volumes have over 160 million copies sold in Japan and 260 million sold worldwide, making it the second best-selling manga series. Reviewers have praised the manga for its comedy, fight sces, and pacing, while recognizing a coming-of-age theme and its use of cultural referces from Chinese mythology and Japanese folktales. Complaints from parts in the United States resulted in glish-language releases being edited to remove nudity, racial stereotypes, and other contt.
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Also regarded as one of the most influtial manga series, Dragon Ball has inspired numerous manga artists, including Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), and Tite Kubo (Bleach). A sequel, titled Dragon Ball Super, has be published in V Jump since 2015. It is writt by Toriyama and illustrated by Toyotarou.
Son Goku, a monkey-tailed boy, and Bulma, a teage girl, travel to find the sev Dragon Balls, which summon the dragon Shlong to grant the user one wish. Their journey leads to the desert bandit Yamcha, who later becomes an ally; Chi-Chi, whom Goku unknowingly agrees to marry; and Pilaf, an impish man who seeks the Dragon Balls to fulfill his desire to rule the world. Goku undergoes rigorous training regimes under the martial arts master Kame-S'nin to fight in the Tkaichi Budōkai (天下一武道会 , lit. Strongest Under the Heavs Martial Arts Tournamt). He becomes frids with a monk named Kuririn, his training partner and initial rival. After the tournamt, Goku searches for the Dragon Ball his grandfather left him and almost single-handedly defeats the Red Ribbon Army and their hired assassin, Taopaipai. Goku th reunites with his frids to defeat the fortune teller Baba Uranai's fighters and use her to find the last Dragon Ball in order to revive a frid killed by Taopaipai.
Three years later at the Tkaichi Budōkai, Goku and his allies oppose Kame-S'nin's rival and Taopaipai's brother, Tsuru-S'nin, and his studts Tshinhan and Chaozu. Kuririn is killed after the tournamt; Goku tracks down the murderer's leader, Piccolo Daimao, but is defeated. The samurai Yajirobe takes Goku to the hermit Karin, who heals him and gives him a power boost. Meanwhile, Piccolo defeats and kills Kame-S'nin and Chaozu before using the Dragon Balls to regain his youth and destroy Shlong. Goku th kills Piccolo Daimao, who, before dying, spawns his son/reincarnation Piccolo. Karin th directs Goku to Kami, the original creator of the Dragon Balls and Piccolo Daimao's other half, to restore Shlong and revive his slain frids. Goku trains under Kami for the next three years, once again reuniting with his frids at the Tkaichi Budōkai. There, he defeats Piccolo, whose life he spares as it would also kill Kami. Goku leaves with Chi-Chi to keep his promise to marry her.
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Five years later, Goku is a young adult and father to a son, Gohan. A man named Raditz arrives on Earth, idtifies Goku as his younger brother Kakarrot, and reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人 , Saiya-jin ), who st Goku to conquer Earth for them; however, Goku had suffered a severe head injury as an infant and lost all memories of his mission. Goku refuses to continue the mission, and sides with Piccolo to kill Raditz at the cost of his own life. In the afterlife, Goku trains under the North Kaiō until he is revived by the Dragon Balls to save the Earth from the invading Nappa and Vegeta. In the battle, Yamcha, Chaozu, Tshinhan, and Piccolo are killed, and the Dragon Balls cease to exist. Kuririn and the galactic tyrant Freeza learn of another set of Dragon Balls on the planet Namek (ナメック星 , Namekku-sei ) , Piccolo's homeworld. Bulma, Gohan, and Kuririn search for them to revive their frids and restore Earth's Dragon Balls. Their goal leads to several battles with Freeza's minions and Vegeta, the latter standing alongside the heroes to fight the Ginyu Force, a team of mercaries. The long battle with Freeza ds wh Goku transforms into a legdary Super Saiyan (超サイヤ人 , Sūpā Saiya-jin ) and defeats him. Barely surviving, Freeza recovers and goes to Earth to take his revge on Goku; however, he is killed by a Super Saiyan from the future named Trunks.
Three years later, a group of Androids (人造人間 , Jinzōning , lit. Artificial Humans) created by a member of the former Red Ribbon Army, Doctor Gero, appears, seeking revge against Goku. During this time, an evil life form called Cell also emerges and, after absorbing two of the Androids to achieve his perfect form, holds his own fighting tournamt to challge the protagonists. After Goku sacrifices his own life to no avail, Gohan avges his father by killing Cell. Sev years later Goku, briefly revived for one day, and his allies are drawn into a fight against Majin Boo. After many battles, including the destruction and re-creation of the Earth, a resurrected Goku destroys Boo with a Gki-Dama (a sphere of pure ergy drawn from all intelligt beings on Earth) and wishes for him to be reincarnated as a good person. T years later, at the Tkaichi Budōkai, Goku meets Boo's human reincarnation, Oob. After testing his powers, Goku departs with Oob to train him to be the Earth's new guardian.
Within roughly six months of creating the popular manga Dr. Slump in 1980, Akira Toriyama wanted to d the series but his publisher Shueisha would only allow him to do so if he agreed to start another serial for them shortly after.
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He was inspired by Hong Kong martial arts films such as Bruce Lee's ter the Dragon (1973) and Jackie Chan's Drunk Master (1978).
Published in the August and October 1983 issues of Fresh Jump. It follows a boy, adept at martial arts, who escorts a princess on a journey back to her home country. Dragon Boy was very well-received and evolved to become the serial Dragon Ball.
With Goku being Sun Wukong (Son Goku in Japanese), Bulma as Tang Sanzang, Oolong as Zhu Bajie, and Yamcha being Sha Wujing.
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Torishima said he chose the novel largely because it was a free intellectual property, but also because its Chinese setting was not common in manga at the time and would make it both unique and differtiate it from Dr. Slump's US West Coast feel.
He changed the objective from Journey to the West, where the protagonists travel through the Western Regions (Ctral Asia) to collect sacred Buddhist texts from the Indian subcontint, to something simpler, gathering sev orbs which grant a wish.
Toriyama added the idea of the Dragon Balls to give the characters a game-like activity of gathering something in order to appeal to its shōn manga magazine audice.
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His concept of the Dragon Balls was inspired by the epic Japanese novel Nansō Satomi Hakkd (1814–1842), which involves the heroes collecting eight large Buddhist prayer beads of a necklace from eight differt regions of Japan, which Toriyama adapted into finding sev Dragon Balls from sev differt locations; he chose the number sev to avoid being the same as the number of beads in Hakkd.
The title Dragon Ball was inspired by ter the Dragon as well as later Bruceploitation knockoff kung fu movies which frequtly had the word Dragon in the title.
Toriyama said that although the stories are purposefully easy to understand, he specifically aimed Dragon Ball at an older
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