Dragon Ball Z
Tags: good versus evil, violence

Plot synopsis:
Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball anime, with Son Goku as 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 big brother and that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin). The Saiyans had sent Goku (originally named "Kakarrot") to Earth as an infant to conquer the planet for them, but he suffered a severe head injury soon after his arrival and lost all memory of his mission, as well as his blood-thirsty Saiyan nature. Goku refuses to help Raditz continue the mission, which results in Raditz kidnapping Gohan. Goku decides to team up with his former enemy Piccolo in order to defeat Raditz and save his son, while sacrificing his own life in the process. In the afterlife, Goku trains under Kaiō-sama until he is revived by the Dragon Balls a year later in order to save the Earth from Raditz' comrades; Nappa and the Saiyan prince Vegeta. During the battle Piccolo is killed, along with Goku's allies Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Chaozu, and the Dragon Balls cease to exist because of Piccolo's death. Goku arrives at the battlefield late, but avenges his fallen friends by defeating Nappa with his new level of power. Vegeta himself enters into the battle with Goku and after numerous clashes Goku manages to defeat him as well, with the help of Gohan and his best friend Kuririn. At Goku's request, they spare Vegeta's life and allow him to escape Earth. During the battle, Kuririn overhears Vegeta mentioning the original set of Dragon Balls from Piccolo's home planet Namek (ナメック星, Namekku-sei). While Goku recovers from his injuries at the hospital, Gohan, Kuririn and Goku's oldest friend Bulma depart for Namek in order to use these Dragon Balls to revive their dead friends. However, they discover that Vegeta's superior, the galactic tyrant Lord Freeza, is already there, seeking the Dragon Balls to be granted eternal life. A fully healed Vegeta arrives on Namek as well, seeking the Dragon Balls for himself, which leads to several battles between him and Freeza's henchmen. Realizing he is overpowered, Vegeta teams up with Gohan and Kuririn to fight the Ginyu Force, a team of mercenaries summoned by Freeza. After Goku finally arrives on Namek, the epic battle with Freeza himself comes to a close when Goku transforms into a fabled Super Saiyan (超サイヤ人, Sūpā Saiya-jin) and defeats him.
Upon his return to Earth a year later, Goku encounters a time traveler named Trunks, the future son of Bulma and Vegeta, who warns Goku that two Artificial Humans (人造人間, Jinzōningen, lit. "Artificial Humans") will appear three years later, seeking revenge against Goku for destroying the Red Ribbon Army when he was a child. During this time, an evil life form called Cell emerges and after absorbing two of the Artificial Humans to achieve his "perfect form," holds his own fighting tournament to decide the fate of the Earth, called the "Cell Games". After Goku sacrifices his own life a second time, to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by defeating Cell after ascending to the second level of Super Saiyan. Seven years later Goku, who has been briefly revived for one day and meets his youngest son Goten, and his allies are drawn into a fight by the Kaioshin against a magical being named Majin Buu. After numerous battles resulting in the destruction and recreation of the Earth, Goku (whose life is permanently restored by the Elder Kaioshin) destroys Majin Buu with a Genki Dama attack containing the energy of everyone on Earth. Goku makes a wish for Buu to be reincarnated as a good person and ten years later, at another martial arts tournament, Goku meets Buu's human reincarnation, Uub. Leaving the match between them unfinished, Goku departs with Uub to train him to become Earth's new defender.

Review: It's character development and the plots of the whole DBZ story is superb, the animation is full of action, and every ending of an episode leaves you wondering what may happen next.
In 5th grade, my friends were Role Playing Dragon Ball Z during recess (it had just started to air around that time.) Of course, I wanted to role play with them, but didn't know-or remember- any female characters.
And it may take a while to understand the principles of DBZ if you start watching in the middle of a saga, but keep watching- it may take time (like me.) Akira Toriyama has definitely created a classic..
It covers over 500 episodes in it's entire run over three different animated series.I began watching with the Android/Cell sagas.
Characters have time to develop into interesting relationships among them, making moments where someone dies or is hurt even more emotional.It tells the story of Goku (son Goku in Japan) who is an incredible man born with an amazing fighting talent.
They are born with a natural instinct to fight, and conquer entire planets to sale to the highest bidder.That is only the beginning of DBZ, there are 200 episodes or so of a previous series called Dragonball that explain Goku's childhood-into-adult hood.
The show takes time to understand and become interested in, but once your there, you'll be hooked.There are over 290 episodes of DBZ, and the animation gets much better, as does the storyline.
If there's one word I can say to describe this series it would have to be "Success" because that's all it's ever been known for, from its very origin Dragon ball z has been helping establish not only itself but the brands that it's been associated with from the now very popular "SHONEN JUMP" which DBZ help cement as being the leader of an era which was known as the golden era of Manga 16 million circulation Dbz was the main push behind all of that it also helped other big titles come to fruition such as One piece and Naruto and many others.
The Dragon Ball Z series contain some of the most charismatic characters, great fighting sequences, and strong plots that covered thousands of years.
This is my favourite manga cartoon ever.The storyline,plot and fighting scenes are just excellent both me and my friends Robert Hannon,Luke Mutagh,Tyler Harris,Gregory Davidson,Patrick Osewa,Abdul Anwar absolutely love it My favourite character has to be gohan on the games playing as him i've never been defeated.I personally think that dragonball started off a little slow due to the fact that Akira Toriyama meant for it to be a comedy about a sayain boy arriving on a strange new planet(Earth)but as the first tournament started it slowly changed into the most memorable mangas ever.Many people think that the beginning of dragonball gt started off slow when they toured the universe i agree but when the bebi saga gets around thats when i think it gets good The games are also excellent getting better with every sequel.A few people I know think Naruto is better than DBZ.
The plot, the characters, the fight scenes, and the overall feel of the entire series makes a fan out of any child, and even many adults.I remember at one point I read somewhere that DBZ has around 67 million fans worldwide.
While DBZ originally had the characters acting mature, even in the face of the end of the world, FUNimation decided to take something great, and turn it into a show aimed for two year olds!
In my mind dragonball z has to be one of the greatest crossovers of comic to cartoon, for this simple reason its not real and its a break from reality and thus it had no boundaries in what it could do with its characters.I admit that the basic story was already there but what Funimation did was to make the dialog less wooden although due to limitations with strength of vocabulary and the inability to use words of a stronger nature that would have given the characters more of an edge, but the key thing in my mind is the music which in the original series from Japan was basic and frankly old fashioned so with the music created by Bruce faulconer the series went from being good to brilliant and thus gave it the ability to appeal to people today, but due to it being taken off air people don't have the chance now to enjoy it as much as I did when I was younger..
Most of that editing, which I didn't like (Not that I'm interested in seeing blood, or a persons rear end, I just don't think that children should be censored so much, and should instead see consequences to real actions.) stays in the third season, and the following seasons.For those of you that dismiss Dragon Ball Z as just another simple cartoon, I'll tell you to just give it a try.
but when you get to know it:IT ROCKS!!!I simply LOVE the plot (thanks to Akira Toriyama the writer of dragon ball Z) it always adds a new twist!How ever it isn't flawless...
Then when it started airing on Cartoon Network, I didn't like it (again because I didn't know what it was about.) But I got hooked on it quickly, thanks to my little brother.It was not until I found a certain website, which shall remain nameless, that I found out what I was watching was a severely hacked-up version of its former self.
The characters Dragon Ball fans know and love (notably Son Gokou) now sound more like stupid WCW wrestlers.
I grew up watching characters like son Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo , Frieza, Son gohan and many more
Watch The Sub. I love Dragon Ball and DBZ too but what i come to review here is the Funimation English release which is just a very mutilated mediocre and violated version of a Great series.
It goes from lame and cheesy American dub acting to bland American action movie performance, each time they talk is cringe-worthy, say what you want about Goku's original Japanese voice sounding as a woman at least the acting is good and the voice is actually memorable and endearing.
Now about the translation, this is the aspect that earned the "Mutilated" adjective i gave to this release, maybe the censorship is not as awful as in other Anime shows in the past, but it's not exempt of Americanisms, starting by trying to make Goku sound like Superman, Cheesing up the dialogue (Hope of the Universe my d@ck)and changing the motivation for some of the characters actions (Goku sparing Vegeta), not to forget the unnecessary monologues during the Cell arc, like the first aspect, it is lame.
The last aspect is the music change, taking out the Original Shunsuke Kikuchi's instrumental score and changing it to Faulconer Productions' synthesized score, which represents an obscene exaggeration of the common perception that Dragon Ball is just about muscled super powered guys fighting in a testosterone filled bullshit situation, it's just generic and tasteless, usually the music aspect is just a tertiary aspect, but here turns this series in an amalgam of all the worst aspects of DBZ (y'know the all just strong guys in endlessly dragging battles with no logic or substance and a lot of exaggerated power levels)creating one of the worst reputations this show ever had,so i may be going too far but i'll say this...
Also i not used to disrespect other people's preferences but here is where i loose it and refuse to believe an intelligent person actually thinks this violation is good or better tan the original.If you wanna see the real Dragon Ball Z anime, watch the sub and avoid this mess..
It's not a perfect show, but a good portion of the episodes on this set do hold up quite well, and there's a reason we'll still be watching "Dragon Ball Z" several years from now.
Sure, it was a very influential anime and I have to admit that the show had a great start, but I think that every real anime-fan like me knows that there is better stuff out there then DragonBall Z.
In DragonBall Z however, the attacks all look like random color energy-beams or balls and even though there are different names to them there is no real distinction which was kinda boring to me.If you are new to anime, then you could give this a try though.
I usually hear a lot of words in the dubbed versions that most kids wouldn't understand (e.c.: incompetent, dismay, pry, kamikaze, debacle, Oh yeah, ascend, etc.) Besides, I own a Kid Buu DVD with the dubbed & undubbed versions & I must have heard/read Goku say "ain't" at least a dozen times, once I switched it to Japanese!"The dubbed voices suck": Um, I don't know about you guys, but, I'd rather Goku sound like a (ahem) stressed out wrestler than a 50-year-old women who screams like a banshee every five minutes!"It has the lamest villains": What the crap!!!
Goku is my favourite of the lot, and no one comes close to him, but the great thing about this animated series is that the fans have their own set of likes and dislikes regarding the characters.
Others prefer Vegeta, Piccolo or Frieza, but personally, I, just like the majority prefer Goku who was the central character within this animated series for the most part.
In fact, in my opinion, the villains in this anime are so unique and well-executed that they were as critical and important to the popularity of the show as the heroes were.Prior to watching Dragon Ball Z, I didn't know anime was capable of delivering such outstanding levels of on-screen combat, and in my opinion, the fights are the show's strongest point: masterful, painful and, sometimes, even horrifying.It's like the best anime I've ever watched..
Based on the adventures of Goku and his friends,Dragon Ball Z is one hell of a ride from start to finish..It's got great characters,awesome villains,Ballistic fights that still are the pinnacle of anime..Even to this day,DBZ is famous what with it's sequel and games still going great guns(Dragon Ball Super,Not DB GT,that one was mediocre).Long story short,just watch DBZ..It's worth it!!.
Funny thing, out of the entire 222 episodes that Funimation dubbed of this show with that music, the fans that like it can only find less than 10 moments where it was actually good.
How can stupid morons compare a cool show like this,to American made garbage like Courage The Cowardly Dog;and especially Ed Edd and Eddy?No one should EVER,compare rotten,maggot filled garbage like Ed,Edd and Eddy; to any kind of anime!Thats like comparing catapillars to maggots!Heres the problem with it.Ed,Edd and Eddy is just like all the washed up,unoriginal,gross out shows that came out in the 90's.Because alot of those creators were too lazy to come up with something intellegent,and worth watching.Courage is okay to an extent,but its not based on something new.Been there,seen that!And as for Butt Ugly Martians,don't even get me started!I loved DBZ the first time I saw it in 1998.But I do admit that the American version has a lot of problems.It is almost pretty badly flawed.Most of voice actors did a horrible job.They've made many of the characters sound like blubbering idiots.Or they said stuff at times that didn't make sense,or was down right stupid.Some examples of this is when Krillen called Frieza Frosty,or said Frieza was going to go the way of dinosaurs.There are lots of dinosaurs in DBZ,ALIVE!Hows he supposed to go the same way?Or when Jeuice,(is that the right spelling),said to Racoom:"Hurry it up or you won't see TV for a month!"He then replies:"Okay,I like soap operas!"Then a lot of the censorship,(unnecessary that is),that left a lot to be desire.Like, when they drew an ugly towel over Goku's butt in one scene.They used exaggerated breathing to make the deceased Nammeks seem like they were just stunned.They even painted over scenes to conceal the dead bodies.In fact thats what they mostly did in the first series.Scenes,were chopped out,or episodes were missing;leaving important information a mystery.Or it left plot holes, causing  some of the show to be confusing.Funny lines were added,when the scene was supposed to be serious.They made Frieza,sound like a girl,when he sounds alot more terrorifying in the original Japanese version.And that poor excuse for music,ARRGGHH!Who came up with that garbage?Kraftwerk?I've heard better from a baby's toy!It sounds silly and idiotic.He**,it doesn't fit the emotion of the scene.It don't make you feel anything.Except annoyed.Despite these problems,(Made In America),it doesn't take away too much from the show.But it should've been on Adult Swim instead.I have come to fall in love with many of the characters like Bulma,Goku,Gohan,Vegeta,Chi Chi,Krillen,Goten,Trunks,the android twins,Cell,Frieza and many more.To me,in my opinion,the show is much more then just punch,kick,punch,or sending out balls of light.To me its about life and death,friendships,fighting for everyones life,putting your life on the line to save millions of others;and sometimes putting your life on the line to save your own.And to keep hope alive,no matter how bad it gets,or when all seems lost.That theres always a flicker of light,even in the darkest of times.If you fight for the good of others,you'll come out a winner.If you fight with hatred and vengance in your heart,you'll come out a loser.Yes, theres a lot to be learned from this show.At least they didn't take that away.There were some good voice actors too,like Vegeta,Android 17 and 18,Goten and Trunks,and Gotenks,Piccalo.You can't ever say that about Ed and Eddy,or Butt Ugly Martians.If they died,it be only to produce a laugh.And no one would miss them.The show has finally come to its conclusion,and I will miss it a lot.Thank you Cartoon Network,For giving us the best anime show around.It opened the way for many other anime shows like YuYu Hakasho.As for the bad hair,its not bad.Its based on the styles of the 1980's.Its pretty cool,and it did start in the 80's.Your hair probably looks like a poodles.This show has a lot of fantasy stuff in it as well.This show is best veiwed in orignal Japanese format,or at least the dubbed.You want to be able to drink up the scenery,and every little thing in the show,including the music.People like the super, stupid ghetto dorks,and the doofuses can go back to watching grossout dreck like,Cartoon Sushi,Beetlejuice,Phantom Investigators,Ripping Friends,Sam and Max,Brothers'Grunt,Space Goofs and the 90's version of Casper.Remember,the hack job done to Sailor Moon is much,much worse.:D.
I love to watch Dragon Ball Z I have been a fan a long time.
Action packed and epic as crap, this show put an icon on the Japanese animation industry.The story follows a grown up Goku, (main character of Dragon Ball where he was a kid, for those not familiar) as he and his friends battle an onslaught of enemies all around the universe looking to take over the world.
Because, by that time, you will know the main characters and their histories which are Goku, Bulma etc.And if you start to find dragon ball a bit boring then start DBZ from ep 1 and prepare to have your mind blown away.There is a lot of high octane fighting, action sequences so awesomely animated that your eyes will be blown.
i would like to see more if its next part ever made.i have also seen gt.but if any other series ever made i am sure i will never ever miss it and also i seen all movies of dragon ball z.so friend if ever next part is made plz tell me my ID is Rohit.kait@gmail.com bye byei also wann say that in every time every body gain next level i think humans must be get next level alsoso that when they fight with great power i must admit there power..
It's like the Battleship of animes: Boring and retarded story, uninteresting characters, linear as hell and huge explosions that keep you entertained for the moment.Now, I'm sure every single Dragon Ball Z fan out there (and there are many) are gonna get so mad for this, but this is the truth.
Well this is the truth of why they don't do this, when they spend so much time fighting one guy sometimes gets annoying you can't wait till they just end it and continue with the plot.-Bad translation, I hear in the original Japanese the series has better music and better voices.
the characters are terrible save vegeta, and as preachy as they come, gotta love goku's attitude towards fighting SUMMERISE BUU SAGA "hey vegeta now your as strong as me lets fight cuz i know its what you want, sure it will release buu, sure it will get the entire damn planet blown up but hey its FIGHTING!" don't watch this if you are older than 13, please =( you will sit and watch the epps and think "my life is ending one episode at a time"on the plus side the acting is pretty good and the saiyan (first) saga was good but thats about it.
I actually don't watch that show at all, but something in my mind told me to give it a chance to really see if Dragon Ball Z is a good Anime or not.
Though I do admit I love watching Goku kick some evil butt, I miss the humor and story lines of its predecessor Dragon Ball.I give DBZ 7 1/2 stars.
It of course did take me to watch a few episodes to get really into the plot and so on but by the time I'd seen several or more episodes of this amazing action show at the most, well that was it I was truly hooked and from that very moment I was a true Dragon Ball Z fan and I only wished that I had listened to my friends advise write from the start.