Dragon Ball

ドラゴンボール Manga

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Format MANGA
Status Finished
Start date Nov 20, 1984
End date May 23, 1995
Average score 83/100
Popularity 50447
Favorites 5560
Genres Action
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Supernatural

Tags

Martial Arts 96%
Centers around the use of traditional hand-to-hand combat.
Travel 93%
Centers around character(s) moving between places a significant distance apart.
Shounen 93%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
Super Power 90%
Prominently features characters with special abilities that allow them to do what would normally be physically or logically impossible.
Male Protagonist 90%
Main character is male.
Cultivation 85%
Features characters using training, often martial arts-related, and other special methods to cultivate qi (a component of traditional Chinese philosophy, described as "life force") and gain strength or immortality.
Time Skip 78%
Features a gap in time used to advance the story.
Aliens 77%
Prominently features extraterrestrial lifeforms.
Henshin 75%
Prominently features character or costume transformations which often grant special abilities.
Coming of Age 71%
Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
Cyborg 66%
Prominently features a human character whose physiological functions are aided or enhanced by artificial means.
Afterlife 63%
Partly or completely set in the afterlife.
Anachronism 60%
Prominently features elements that are out of place in the historical period the work takes place in, particularly modern elements in a historical setting.
Magic 57%
Prominently features magical elements or the use of magic.
Gods 55%
Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
Adoption 48%
Features a character who has been adopted by someone who is neither of their biological parents.
Military 48%
Centered around the life and activities of military personnel.
Shapeshifting 46%
Features character(s) who changes one's appearance or form.
Nudity 45%
Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.
Robots 43%
Prominently features humanoid machines.
Tragedy 40%
Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
Meta 40%
Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
Rural 38%
Partly or completely set in the countryside.
Dragons 32%
Prominently features mythical reptiles which generally have wings and can breathe fire.
Dissociative Identities 25%
A case where one or more people share the same body.

Sinopse

Dragon Ball follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls for their own desires. Along the way becoming the strongest warrior in the universe.

Part II of Dragon Ball is also known as "Dragon Ball Z" in North America.

Note: Includes one extra chapter.