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First tankōbon volume cover. Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.The story follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered.
First tankōbon volume of Dragon Ball, released in Japan on September 10, 1985. Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. The story follows the adventures of Son Goku, a child who goes on a lifelong journey beginning with a quest for the seven mystical Dragon Balls. Along the way, he goes through many ...
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha.
Dragon Ball was published in five volumes between June 3, 2008, and August 18, 2009, [64] [65] while Dragon Ball Z was published in nine volumes between June 3, 2008, and November 9, 2010. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Viz published new 3-in-1 volumes of Dragon Ball , similar to their Viz Big Edition, across 14 volumes between June 4, 2013, and September 6, 2016.
Shueisha began publishing colored versions of the Dragon Ball Super tankōbon digitally on April 3, 2020. Viz Media began posting free English translations of the chapters to their website on June 24, 2016, [3] with a print release of the first volume following on May 2, 2017. They have published 22 volumes in North America as of December 2024.
Viz Media's North American cover of the first volume for Dragon Ball Z, which was the seventeenth volume from the original Japanese releases. Dragon Ball Z (originally published in Japan as Dragon Ball chapters 195–519) is the English title for the last two thirds of the Dragon Ball manga, which was written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.
Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater (Japanese: 鳥山明 作劇場 （ とりやまあきらマルさくげきじょう ）, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira Marusaku Gekijō, lit. "Akira Toriyama's Blankpiece Theater") is a Japanese manga anthology consisting of three tankōbon volumes released between 1983 and 1997 that collect several one-shots written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.
An animated film, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, was the first film in the Dragon Ball franchise to be produced under the Super chronology. Released on December 14, 2018, with a new art style, most of the film is set after the "Universe Survival" story arc (the beginning of the movie takes place in the past). [ 67 ]