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==Papiels characters==
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/06/papiel-vegeta-sayan.html Vegeta]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/06/papiel-gohan-sayan-2.html Gohan]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/06/papiel-piccolo.html Piccolo]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/06/bueno-aqu-tenis-el-vdeo-de-freezer.html Freezer]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/07/papiel-de-trunks.html Trunks]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/07/papiel-del-dragon-shenlong.html Shenlong]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/06/papiel-celula.html Cell]
* [http://curi222.blogspot.com/2008/08/papiel-de-buu-de-dragon-ball.html Buu]


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Dragon Ball
First tankōbon volume, released in Japan on November 10, 1985
ドラゴンボール
(Doragon Bōru)
GenreMartial arts, Science fiction
Manga
Written byAkira Toriyama
Published byJapan Shueisha
English publisherAustralia New Zealand Chuang Yi

Canada United States Viz Media

United Kingdom Gollancz Manga
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original run1984 – 1995
Volumes42 (List of volumes)
Anime
Directed byMinoru Okazaki
Daisuke Nishio
StudioToei Animation
Released February 26, 1986 – April 12, 1989
Anime
Dragon Ball Z
Directed byDaisuke Nishio
StudioToei Animation
Released April 26, 1989 – January 31, 1996
Anime
Dragon Ball GT
Directed byOsamu Kasai
StudioToei Animation
Released February 7, 1996 – November 19, 1997
Movies
  1. Curse of the Blood Rubies
  2. Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle
  3. Mystical Adventure
  4. The Path to Power
  5. Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
  6. Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
  7. Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might
  8. Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
  9. Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
  10. Dragon Ball Z: Return of Cooler
  11. Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!
  12. Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
  13. Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound
  14. Dragon Ball Z: Broly Second Coming
  15. Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly
  16. Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
  17. Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon

Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール, Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and its 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Inspired by the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West, it follows the adventures of its lead character, Son Goku from his childhood into old age. The manga series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz Media, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz Manga, and in Australia and New Zealand by Chuang Yi.

Dragon Ball has since been adapted into three different anime series, seventeen animated feature films, three television specials, a collectible trading card game, and a large number of video games. A live-action film has been in development since 2002, and is now slated for release on April 10, 2009.

Plot

See also: Lists of Dragon Ball characters

A monkey-tailed boy named Son Goku is found by an old martial arts expert and raised as his grandson. One day, during a full moon, Goku transforms into a giant ape and accidentally kills his adopted grandfather, but later has no recollection of it. Several years later, Bulma, on a quest to retrieve the seven Dragon Balls and have her wish granted by the dragon that will appear, meets Goku, now living alone with the four-star Dragon Ball that he treats as his dead grandfather. Goku decides to accompany Bulma on her quest, and along the way, meets and befriends many martial artists, undergoes rigorous martial arts training regimes and educational programs, and faces various challengers and villains, often at the Tenka-ichi Budōkai.

As the series continues, Goku goes from childhood into adulthood, and his first child, Son Gohan goes through similar experiences. As Goku evolves, so do many his rivals, including Piccolo and Vegeta, with some changing from evil to good. Goku himself dies and comes back to life several times, and becomes the top martial arts superhero in the universe.

Differences in anime adaptations

Both the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime are based on the same original Dragon Ball manga. Dragon Ball follows Goku's adventures as a child up until his marriage as an adult; roughly the arcs that had the most fantasy and humor elements. Dragon Ball Z takes up the story five years after where the Dragon Ball anime leaves off, with the introduction of Goku's young son and the arrival of a new, more powerful foe. Dragon Ball GT is the sequel to Dragon Ball Z, but is not based on the original manga by Toriyama.

Filler was used to pad out the series for many reasons; in the case of Dragon Ball Z, more often than not, it was because the anime was running alongside the manga, and there was no way for the anime to run ahead of the manga since Toriyama was still writing it.

The company behind the anime, Toei Animation, would occasionally create side stories to either further explain things, or simply to extend the series. Filler does not come only in the form of side stories though; sometimes it is as simple as adding some extra attacks into a fight. For instance, many scenes in the anime appear quite protracted, featuring long shots of the characters faces and stand-offs lasting an entire episode and even spanning multiple episodes for a single fight. As the anime series was forced to expand 12-14 pages of manga image and text into 20-22 minutes of animation footage, these changes were introduced to fill the complete television time slot or to allow the anime writers to explore some other aspects of the series' universe. The Garlic Junior arc, between the Freeza Saga and the Cell Saga, and the Afterlife Tournament arc, between the Cell Saga and the Majin Buu Saga, are examples of this.

Themes

At its core, Dragon Ball maintains the central tenets of the Weekly Shōnen Jump core philosophy of "friendship, struggle, and victory." As the series shifts from a "heart warming" story into a more action oriented piece, the protagonists go through an unending cycle of fighting, winning, losing, learning important lessons, then returning to the fight. As the series progresses, the heroes continue this cycle by using miraculous devices to achieve life after death, continuing their on-going battles with the dead heroes continuing to learn lessons as defeats his or her challengers.[1]

Production

"Dragon Boy" redirects here. For the Canadian mini-series, see Dragon Boys.

Wanting to break from Western influences common in his other series, Akira Toriyama decided to create a manga series that is loosely modeled on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.[2][3] In creating Dragon Ball, Toriyama also redeveloped one of his earlier one shot manga series, Dragon Boy, which was initially serialized in Fresh Jump and released in a single tankōbon volume in 1983.[3] This short work combined the comedic style of Toriyama's successful six-year series Dr. Slump with a more action-oriented plot.[citation needed] It also had scenes which paid homage to famous martial art actor Jackie Chan.[3]

In creating the female characters for the series, Toriyama didn't want to draw "weak females" as he feels it isn't fun to do. Hence, the women in the series are not only "beautiful and sexy", but "strong."[4] He also decided to go against the normal convention that the strongest characters would be the largest ones, and instead had many of Dragon Ball's strongest characters have small statures, including the protagonist, Goku. In the end, his goal was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story.[4]

Media

Manga

Main article: List of Dragon Ball chapters

Written and illustrated by Toriyama, Dragon Ball was initially serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump starting in 1984.[5][3] The series ended in 1995 when Toriyama felt exhausted and felt he needed a break from drawing.[3] The 519 individual chapters were collected by Shueisha in a series of 42 tankōbon volumes.[6] The first tankōbon was released in November 10, 1985, while the last one was released in August 4, 1995.[7][8] In 2004, the manga was re-released in a collection of 34 kanzenban, which included a slightly rewritten ending, new covers, and color artwork from its Weekly Shōnen Jump run.[5]

The distributing company Viz Media has released all 42 volumes in English in North America. Viz titles volumes seventeen through forty-two of the manga Dragon Ball Z, similar to the anime series adapted from those volumes, to reduce confusion for its readers.[5] Both manga series began publication in March 2003. The last volume of the first part was released in August 3, 2004, while the last one of the second part was released in June 6, 2006.[9][10] As of June 2008, Viz began re-releasing both manga series in a wideban format called "VIZBIG Edition", which collects three individual volumes into one oversized one.[11][12] Viz includes the title pages from the series' original run in Weekly Shonen Jump in a "Title Page Gallery" section at the back of each volume.[citation needed]

Crossovers

A year and a half into Dragon Ball, Toriyama included an extended cameo by some of the characters and locations from his previous creation, Dr. Slump. Toriyama and Eiichiro Oda teamed up to create Cross Epoch, a single chapter crossover between Dragon Ball and Oda's hit series One Piece. This single chapter appeared in the December 25, 2006 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump[citation needed]

Neko Majin Z

Main article: Neko Majin

Originally a one-shot bearing little relation to Toriyama's other series, the first chapter of Neko Majin appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump in April 1999 (WJ #22-23). Though there were some similarities, it didn't become a self-parody of the Dragon Ball manga, until Neko Majin Z, which had cameos of characters from the author's magnum opus. As of 2005, the series was completed with eight total chapters (five of which are Dragon Ball parodies).[13] These chapters were compiled into a "kanzenban"-style package for release in Japan on April 4, 2005.[14]

Anime series

See also: List of Dragon Ball episodes

Dragon Ball

With the high popularity of the Dragon Ball manga, three lengthy anime television series were produced by Toei Animation to adapt the manga chapters. The first, named simply Dragon Ball, premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on February 26, 1986 and ran until April 12, 1989.[3][15] Spanning 153 episodes, it covers the first 16 volumes of the 42 volume manga series.[15]

Harmony Gold USA licensed the series for an English language release in North America in the late 80s. In the their voice dub of the series, Harmony renamed almost all of the characters, with some names appearing very odd, such as the central character Son Goku being renamed to "Zero" and the character Karin's name changed to "Whiskers the Wonder Cat". This dub version was ill-received and was quickly canceled.[citation needed]

In 1995, Funimation Entertainment acquired the full license for the series for both broadcast and distribution in North America. Funimation initially had BLT Productions create the English voice track for the series and the series was edited for content.[16] Twenty-six episodes aired in syndication before Funimation canceled it due to low ratings, switching to the sequel anime series Dragon Ball Z.[3] In March 2001, Funimation announced the return of Dragon Ball to American television, featuring a new English audio track produced in house and less editing.[16][17] The redubbed episodes aired on Cartoon Network from August 2001[18] to December 2003. Funimation also broadcast the series on Colours TV and their own Funimation Channel starting in 2006.[19] Funimation began releasing the uncut episodes to Region 1 DVD box sets in March 18, 2003. Each box set, spanning an entire saga of the series, included the English dub track and the original Japanese audio track with optional English subtitles. The Emperor Pilaf Saga, however, has not been released to DVD, due to it still being licensed for distribution by Harmony Gold.

In 2003, a new dub, produced by Blue Water Studios, was created and began to air in the United Kingdom and Canada. It used different episode titles and voice actors versus the Funimation version.[15]

Dragon Ball Z

With the ending of Dragon Ball, Toei Animation quickly released a sequel series, Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ(ぜっと), Doragon Bōru Zetto, commonly abbreviated DBZ). Picking up where the first left off, Dragon Ball Z is adapted from the final twenty-six volumes of the manga series. It premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on April 26, 1989, taking over its predecessor's time slot, and ran for 290 episodes until its conclusion on January 31, 1996.[3][20]

Following its licensing of Dragon Ball, Funimation Entertainment licensed Dragon Ball Z for an English language release in North America. For Dragon Ball Z, Ocean Group was contracted to produce an English dub track. The dubbed episodes premiered in the United States on The WB in September 1996. In May 1998, the broadcast was canceled and Funimation stopped production of the dubbed episodes. Three months later, the series began airing on Cartoon Network as part of the channel's new Toonami programming block. Soon after, Funimation started dubbing the series again, now using their own in-house voice actors and with a new musical score. The new dub of the series ran on Cartoon Network from September 1999 to April 2003, with the editing having reduced the length of the series to 276 episodes. In August 2004, Geneon Entertainment lost its licensing rights to the old Ocean Group dub of DBZ, and Funimation chose to re-dub the first 67 episodes of the series, restoring the removed content and replacing the old dubbing with the same voice cast used in the later episodes. These redubbed episodes were released to Region 1 DVD in uncut box sets, starting in April 2005, and aired on Cartoon Network throughout the summer of the same year. The Funimation dubbed episodes also aired in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland.[citation needed]

In the United Kingdom, the Funimation dubs of episodes 107 through the final episode were replaced with a new dubbed version. This version used a dub language track produced by Ocean Group studios, but continued using most of Funimation's English language scripts and titles.[citation needed]

Dragon Ball GT

Produced by Toei Animation, Dragon Ball GT (ドラゴンボールGT, Doragon Bōru Jī Tī, G(rand) T(our)[3]) premiered on Fuji TV on February 2, 1996, and ran until November 19, 1997.[21] Unlike the first two series, it was not based on the original Dragon Ball manga.[22] Unable to retain the same "magic" as the first two series, it spanned only 64 episodes before ending.[3]

Funimation Entertainment licensed the series for an English language Region 1 DVD release and broadcast in North America. Funimation's English dub of the series aired on Cartoon Network from November 2003 to January 2005. The television broadcast skipped the first 16 episodes of the series. Instead, Funimation created a composition episode entitled "A Grand Problem", which used scenes from the skipped episodes to summarize the story. The skipped episodes were later aired after the remaining episodes of the series had been broadcast.[21] The dubbed episodes also aired in Canada on YTV, which divided the episodes into two seasons instead of sagas.[23][24]

Specials

  • Dragon Ball Z: A Lonesome, Final Battle~The Father of the Z Warrior Son Goku, who Challenged Frieza
  • Dragon Ball Z: Tatta Hitori no Saishū Kessen ～Freeza ni Idonda Zetto Senshi Son Gokū no Chichi
  • Bardock: The Father of Goku
  • Dragon Ball Z: Resistance to Despair!! The Remaining Super-Warriors, Gohan and Trunks
  • Dragon Ball Z: DoragonbōruZetto Zetsubō e no Hankō!! Nokosareta Chō-Senshi • Gohan to Torankusu
  • The History of Trunks
  • Dragon Ball GT: Goku Sidestory! The Proof of his Courage is the Four-Star Ball
  • Gokū Gaiden! Yūki no Akashi wa Sūshinchū (悟空外伝! 勇気の証しは四星球)
  • A Hero's Legacy
  • Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!

Anime films

Main article: List of Dragon Ball films

Papiels characters

Video games

Main article: List of Dragon Ball video games

Because of its huge commercial success, the Dragon Ball franchise has spawned multiple video games in several genres, including fighting, platforming, role-playing, and card battling.

Soundtracks

Main article: Dragon Ball Soundtracks

Many Soundtracks were released to the Anime, movies and the games.[citation needed]

Live action films

A live-action Cantonese film adaptation of the series, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, was released in China in 1989.[3] Considered a "tacky" version of the story by critics,[3] the plot revolves around a rag-tag group of heroes, led by "Monkey Boy" (Son Goku) trying to stop King Horn from using the wish-granting "Dragon Pearls" (Dragon Balls) to rule the world.

In March 2002, 20th Century Fox acquired feature film rights to the Dragon Ball franchise[25] and began production on an American live action film entitled Dragonball.[26] Ben Ramsey was tapped to create a screenplay based on Dragon Ball Z[27] Directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow,[26] the film is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 8, 2009.[28]

Art books

There are two companion books to the series, called the Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files, released in May 1997 and December 1997 by Shueisha's Jump Comics Selection imprint. They include series information, illustration galleries, behind-the-scenes information, and more. They were out of print for many years, but were re-released in April 2006 and this edition is still in print.[citation needed]

Reception

Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga series of its time, and it continues to enjoy high readership today. By 2000, more than 126 million copies of its tankōbon volumes had been sold in Japan alone.[1] By 2007, this number had grown to pass 150 million.[6] It is the "quintessential mainstream manga" driven by an unending story. Its immense popularity resulted in the series being continuously extended, first through the use of acrobatic devices that regularly kept the series from falling into the routine characters and story lines, then by having the central characters surpass death itself using miraculous devises. In Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture Takashi Murakami notes that Dragon Ball's "never-ending cyclical narrative moves forward plausibly, seamlessly, and with great finesse."[1] Goku's journey and his ever growing strength resulted in the character winning "the admiration of young boys everywhere".[2]

In a survey conducted by Oricon in 2007 between 1,000 people, Son Goku, the main character of the series, ranked first place as the "Strongest Manga character of all time."[29] Other manga artists, such as Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto and One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, have stated that Goku inspired their series' main protagonists as well series structure.[30][31]

When TV Asahi conducted an online poll for the top one hundred anime, the Dragon Ball series came in place twelve.[32]

References

  1. ^ a b c Murakami, Takashi (2005-05-15). "Earth in My Window". Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture. Linda Hoaglund (translator). Yale University Press, Japan Society. pp. pp. 105-106. ISBN 0300102852. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ a b Wiedemann, Julius (2004-09-25). "Akira Toriyama". In Amano Masanao (ed.) (ed.). Manga Design. Taschen. pp. p. 372. ISBN 3822825913. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help); |pages= has extra text (help)
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