![]() ![]() While the original manga and anime started out as a Supernatural Martial Arts comedy series inspired by Journey to the West, by the Demon King Piccolo Arc it had become more serious and featured violent and sometimes bloody battles, and this continued throughout Z ( with the partial exception of the Buu Arc). However Z represents Dragon Ball at its most popular, and so is often treated as its own entire sub-franchise due to the overall obscurity of the first third of the story (in America, ViZ branded all the manga volumes adapted by this anime with the Dragon Ball Z name). While Z is often considered a separate anime from the preceding one, in reality it's more of a marketing rebrand, since the production team was almost identical and it aired on the same schedule without missing a beat. While the manga kept its original name throughout its run everywhere in the world ( except in English), the anime's title was changed from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z, which Toriyama suggested because he felt he would be ending the story soon, with the last letter of the Latin alphabet meaning to indicate this. ( For the proper reading experience, run the music from here, here, or here (or here, if you're really hardcore) while reading this page.)ĭragon Ball Z is Toei's anime adaptation of the latter two thirds of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, originally broadcast from 1989 to 1996. ![]()
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