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DVD home video releases of the Dragon Ball anime series have topped Japan's sales charts on several occasions. [18] [19] In the United States, the Dragon Ball Z anime series sold over 25 million DVD units by January 2012. [20] As of 2017, the Dragon Ball anime franchise has sold more than 30 million DVD and Blu-ray units in the United States. [1]
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.
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.
Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball series, with Son Goku now a young adult and father to his son, Gohan.. A humanoid alien named Raditz arrives on Earth in a spacecraft and tracks down Goku, revealing to him that he is his long-lost older brother and that they are members of a near-extinct elite alien warrior race called Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin).
First volume of the Dragon Ball DVD series, released by Pony Canyon on April 4, 2007. Dragon Ball is the first of two anime adaptations of the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama . Produced by Toei Animation , the anime series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on February 26, 1986, and ran until April 19, 1989.
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In late 2013, the company released the first season box set on the Blu-ray Disc format. In June 2009, Funimation announced that they would be releasing Dragon Ball Z in a new seven volume set called the "Dragon Box". Based on the original series masters with frame-by-frame restoration, the first set was released November 10, 2009.