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Dragonball is loosely based on a Chinese fairy tale about a monkey king. A teenage girl named Bulma crosses paths with an unusual monkey boy named Son Goku. Goku looks human with the exception of his monkey tail. But that's not all that's different about Goku. He's the purest of heart. He has amazing strength and a natural ability to fight. If Goku looks at a full moon, he transforms into a giant ape (Oozaru) and loses his reason as he destroys anything in his path. Bulma's a snobby little rich girl who realizes Goku would come in handy while on her search (this was before she knew about his transformation thing). She wants his four-starred dragonball which he refuses to give to her because Goku believes the dragonball holds the spirit of his deceased grandfather. Bulma convinces Goku to join her in the journey to find the dragonballs so that she can make a wish to the Eternal Dragon: Bulma wants the perfect boyfriend. Goku agrees and their adventurous tale begins. Later in the series, Dragonball takes a different turn and becomes more martial-arts-oriented as Goku trains with a new rival and later best friend, Kuririn, under Kamesennin. At first Dragonball was a popular manga and was then turned into an anime. The humor of this series is a bit vulgar for my taste but I put up with it since I adore Goku so much and/or because it's just too downright funny to care. Here in the US, Viz is kind enough to release translated manga of the series. And, bless their hearts, they don't flop it to conform with the US way of reading things (here we read from left to right but in Japan they read from right to left). However, while the comics were at first unedited, Viz has decided to censor them due to "parental concerns." There are a few dubbed videos of Dragonball usually found in a box set but the show has been changed. For example, in the episode where Bulma convinces Master Roshi/Kamesennin to give her his dragonball, he gives it to her out of the kindness of his heart after the turtle lectures him for asking Bulma to go out on a date. In the Japanese version, Roshi/Kamesennin gives it to her when Bulma agrees to show him her panties (later she realizes she wasn't wearing any panties and so he got a bonus). Anyway, there were other parts of what I've seen of this series that I loved and make me laugh. =)

Dragonball Z takes place when Goku is older and is married and has a son named Gohan and later another son, Goten. This series, while still humorous at times, was more serious and martial-arts-oriented. In this series, we meet important characters like Vegeta, Trunks, and Gohan who were not in Dragonball. A lot of the time the fight gets interesting because these guys have special abilities that we just don't get to see here in reality..and Akira Toriyama has a very cool imagination that I can relate to. Some people watch this show simply for the action and find nothing of greater value there-they tend to overlook this show as simply a bunch of punches and kicks flying this and way that but to me, DBZ is actually an epic tale about good vs. evil among other themes. The show's fatal flaw is it's massive amount of filler material. At first, it looks like this show is the same thing every day in every episode but if you start watching it long enough consistently, you begin to see the saga form and then you've got yourself a beautiful storyline and wonderful characters (some disagree with me on that though). I should also note to anyone totally new to DBZ that there is some controvesy over it's North American release by a lil' company named FUNimation. FUNi (as I often refer to them) at first heavily censored DBZ due to strict guidelines about broadcasting kid's shows. In my personal opinion, DBZ's no kid's show to begin with-or so I've read. Anyway, FUNimation later moved on to Cartoon Network where overboard censorship is no longer necessary however they are still doing what some feel is an unsatisfactory job in a terrible attempt to Americanize DBZ. Several fans have different positions on FUNi's actions. You have the "DBZ otaku" who are passionate purist fans infuriated at FUNimation and on occasion use dubbed DBZ for a dose of comic relief. They're also called "DBZ Cultists" and "Subbies" I believe. There are also a few supporters of FUNimation on this side. You have the people who watch the dub (and thus are called "dubbies") that either don't know anything about the show's alteration, do know and actually agree with FUNimation, or who are like me, know about the changes, don't like them, and are trying to get what they can of the original version. I watch both dubbed and fansubbed DBZ, and have even gone so far as to buy the little bit of commercially subtitled DBZ (Dead Zone and The World's Strongest). FUNimation is now releasing hybrid DVDs that have both dubbed and subbed versions on them and I own one of those DVDs as well.


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She wants his four-starred dragonball which he refuses to give to her because Goku believes the dragonball holds the spirit of his deceased grandfather. Bulma convinces Goku to join her in the journey to find the dragonballs so that she can make a wish to the Eternal Dragon: Bulma wants the perfect boyfriend. Goku agrees and their adventurous tale begins. Later in the series, Dragonball takes a different turn and becomes more martial-arts-oriented as Goku trains with a new rival and later best friend, Kuririn, under Kamesennin. At first Dragonball was a popular manga and was then turned into an anime. The humor of this series is a bit vulgar for my taste but I put up with it since I adore Goku so much and/or because it's just too downright funny to care. Here in the US, Viz is kind enough to release translated manga of the series. And, bless their hearts, they don't flop it to conform with the US way of reading things (here we read from left to right but in Japan they read from right to left). However, while the comics were at first unedited, Viz has decided to censor them due to "parental concerns." There are a few dubbed videos of Dragonball usually found in a box set but the show has been changed. For example, in the episode where Bulma convinces Master Roshi/Kamesennin to give her his dragonball, he gives it to her out of the kindness of his heart after the turtle lectures him for asking Bulma to go out on a date. In the Japanese version, Roshi/Kamesennin gives it to her when Bulma agrees to show him her panties (later she realizes she wasn't wearing any panties and so he got a bonus). Anyway, there were other parts of what I've seen of this series that I loved and make me laugh. =) Dragonball Z takes place when Goku is older and is married and has a son named Gohan and later another son, Goten. This series, while still humorous at times, was more serious and martial-arts-oriented. In this series, we meet important characters like Vegeta, Trunks, and Gohan who were not in Dragonball. A lot of the time the fight gets interesting because these guys have special abilities that we just don't get to see here in reality..and Akira Toriyama has a very cool imagination that I can relate to. Some people watch this show simply for the action and find nothing of greater value there-they tend to overlook this show as simply a bunch of punches and kicks flying this and way that but to me, DBZ is actually an epic tale about good vs. evil among other themes. The show's fatal flaw is it's massive amount of filler material. At first, it looks like this show is the same thing every day in every episode but if you start watching it long enough consistently, you begin to see the saga form and then you've got yourself a beautiful storyline and wonderful characters (some disagree with me on that though). I should also note to anyone totally new to DBZ that there is some controvesy over it's North American release by a lil' company named FUNimation. FUNi (as I often refer to them) at first heavily censored DBZ due to strict guidelines about broadcasting kid's shows. In my personal opinion, DBZ's no kid's show to begin with-or so I've read. Anyway, FUNimation later moved on to Cartoon Network where overboard censorship is no longer necessary however they are still doing what some feel is an unsatisfactory job in a terrible attempt to Americanize DBZ. Several fans have different positions on FUNi's actions. You have the "DBZ otaku" who are passionate purist fans infuriated at FUNimation and on occasion use dubbed DBZ for a dose of comic relief. They're also called "DBZ Cultists" and "Subbies" I believe. There are also a few supporters of FUNimation on this side. You have the people who watch the dub (and thus are called "dubbies") that either don't know anything about the show's alteration, do know and actually agree with FUNimation, or who are like me, know about the changes, don't like them, and are trying to get what they can of the original version. I watch both dubbed and fansubbed DBZ, and have even gone so far as to buy the little bit of commercially subtitled DBZ (Dead Zone and The World's Strongest). FUNimation is now releasing hybrid DVDs that have both dubbed and subbed versions on them and I own one of those DVDs as well.