39 Facts About Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984.

Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with elements of Hong Kong martial arts films.

From 2009 to 2015, a revised version of Dragon Ball Z aired in Japan under the title Dragon Ball Kai, as a recut that follows the manga's story more faithfully by removing most of the material featured exclusively in the anime.

Dragon Ball has become one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

Since its release, Dragon Ball has become one of the most successful manga and anime series of all time, with the manga sold in over 40countries and the anime broadcast in more than 80countries.

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The anime, particularly Dragon Ball Z, is highly popular around the world and is considered one of the most influential in boosting the popularity of Japanese animation in Western culture.

Dragon Ball later becomes a Super Saiyan and defeats the powerful alien tyrant Freeza; this sets the tone of the rest of the series, with each enemy the characters face becoming stronger than the last, requiring them to attain further training.

The title Dragon Ball was inspired by Enter the Dragon and later Bruceploitation knockoff kung fu films which frequently had the word "Dragon" in the title, and the fighting scenes were influenced by Jackie Chan movies.

Dragon Ball wanted to break from the Western influences common in Dr Slump, deliberately going for Chinese scenery, referencing Chinese buildings and photographs of China his wife had bought.

Dragon Ball said that Muscle Tower in the Red Ribbon Army storyline was inspired by the video game Spartan X, in which enemies appear very fast as the player ascends a tower.

Dragon Ball then created Piccolo Daimao as a truly evil villain, and as a result called that arc the most interesting to draw.

Since the completion of Dragon Ball, Toriyama has continued to add to its story, mostly background information on its universe, through guidebooks published by Shueisha.

In 2013, he stated that because Dragon Ball is an action manga the most important aspect is the sense of speed, so he did not draw very elaborate, going so far as to suggest one could say that he was not interested in the art.

Dragon Ball once said that his goal for the series was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story.

Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga series of all time, and it continues to enjoy high readership today.

Dragon Ball is credited as one of the main reasons manga circulation was at its highest between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.

Dragon Ball sold a record number of collected tankobon volumes for its time.

However, in 2001, after releasing three volumes censored, Viz announced Dragon Ball would be uncensored and reprinted due to fan reactions.

Dragon Ball GT premiered on Fuji TV on February 7,1996 and ran until November 19,1997 for 64 episodes.

TV Asahi conducted two polls in 2005 on the Top 100 Anime, Dragon Ball came in second in the nationwide survey conducted with multiple age-groups and in third in the online poll.

Dragon Ball is one of the most successful franchises in animation history.

Dragon Ball Z proved to be a rating success in the United States, outperforming top shows such as Friends and The X-Files in some parts of the country in sweeps ratings during its first season.

Dragon Ball ranked second overall in the search number ranking for the past 10 years released by LYCOS in 2005.

Dragon Ball Z was listed as the 78th best animated show in IGN's Top 100 Animated Series, and was listed as the 50th greatest cartoon in Wizard magazine's Top 100 Greatest Cartoons list.

Harris commented that Dragon Ball GT "is downright repellent", mentioning that the material and characters had lost their novelty and fun.

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Dragon Ball criticized the GT character designs of Trunks and Vegeta as being goofy.

The plot of Dragon Ball GT has been criticized for giving a formula that was already used in its predecessors.

The 1996 feature film, Dragon Ball: The Path to Power, was a full-length theatrical release with a running time of 80 minutes, and was produced to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the anime as a re-imagining of the first few arcs of the series.

Dragon Ball franchise has spawned multiple video games across various genres and platforms.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse was the first game of the franchise developed for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Today, "Dragon Ball Online Global" is a new, European version of Dragon Ball Online and it is being developed, while open beta server is running.

Each of the Japanese "Dragon Box" DVD releases of the series and movies, which were released from 2003 to 2006, as well as the Blu-ray boxed sets of Dragon Ball Kai, released 2009 to 2011, come with a Dragon Book guide that contains details about the content therein.

Since its debut, Dragon Ball has had a considerable impact on global popular culture.

Dragon Ball is widely referenced in American popular culture, from television and music to celebrities and athletes, and the show has been celebrated with Goku making an appearance at the 2018,2019, and 2021 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades, and with Dragon Ball murals appearing in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City and Denver.

Dragon Ball is immensely popular in other regions of the world, such as Latin America, where public screenings of the Dragon Ball Super finale in 2018 filled public spaces and stadiums in cities across the region, including stadiums holding tens of thousands of spectators.

Dragon Ball has been cited as inspiration across various different media.

Key characteristic that set Dragon Ball Z apart from American television shows at the time was a serialization format, where a continuous story arc stretches over multiple episodes or seasons.

Dragon Ball has been channeled and referenced by numerous musicians.

Producer of the Tekken video game series, Katsuhiro Harada, said that Dragon Ball was one of the first works to visually depict chi and thereby influenced numerous Japanese video games, especially fighting games such as Tekken and Street Fighter.