And to me, a special and personal art, not a corporate piece of entertainment, is worth reading regardless of quality. Dragon Ball's solid, not perfect. The art is great, the fights are awesome and the characters are genuine and humorous. Also it was a great scene funny and feel good scene where Hercule takes credit for the victory over Cell, befriends the nice Buu, and through this he is actually the one that helps defeat evil Buu by asking his fans to hold up their arms after Goku and Vegeta fail to get any response on their same request. This weekend I binged through the whole series again, up until the new Dragon Ball Super books that I’m excited to get into now. There are a number of metaphors of the journey being the destination. Two examples are when Goku dies and has to run the 1 million km road above hell to meet his next trainer, doesn’t need any water/food/sleep since already dead, the challenge is pushing harder and harder, and that itself is the training. Similarly with the legendary Z sword, Gohan training to pull it out, as well as training to use the stupidly heavy thing, was the reward itself. It turned out the sword was just a dumb very heavy sword.

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Dragon Ball ain't deep, dark, or even that well written, but it's full of heart, passion, and love. My love of manga as a medium is much to do to how personal it feels.. It's a single creator building and it's always something that feels special. From Horimiya to Bleach. From Ayako to Mob Physco, it always feels special. Dragon Ball is no different. Sure it's a battle manga about collecting McGuffins but it never feels like anything else. It's wild and I love it, and while I can't reasonably give it more then a 3.5 because it has some real storytelling issues, Dragon Ball is just special.Dragon Ball is Akira Toriyama's first venture into the adventures of Goku and friends, and it's magical albeit a little rough. It definitely doesn't hold up to 2021 social standards in terms of sexualization and while it does feature many fun female characters like Chi Chi, Bulma, Lunch, and the Crone, it is still an important point for those who don't enjoy reading material that doesn't quite hold up in that regard. But for me, that doesn't take away from what makes it great. Goku and friends battle intergalactic evil in the greatest action-adventure-fantasy-comedy-fighting series ever! The Dragon Ball Z Complete Box Set contains all 26 volumes of the manga that propelled the global phenomenon that started with Dragon Ball into one of the world's most recognizable and best-selling manga. Also includes an exclusive double-sided poster and collector's booklet featuring fun Dragon Ball Z trivia and guides as well as an interview with its legendary creator.

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Lots of comedy as well. The weigh in world tournament where everyone was trying to hide their real strength on the measurement device then Vegeta simply destroyed it was so funny. There’s so many nice memories in these stories. So much intensity, struggle, and progression. The philosophy scattered in is really great too, such as an Android being the one that snaps Gohan into harnessing his emotion. I again read it in college, this time everything, from Dragon Ball’s stories of Goku and Bulma to Dragon Ball Z with Frieza, Cell, and Buu.Legend has it that if all seven of the precious orbs called “Dragon Balls” are gathered together, an incredibly powerful dragon god will appear to grant one wish. Unfortunately, the orbs are scattered across the world, making them extremely difficult to collect. Enter 16-year-old Bulma, a scientific genius who has constructed a radar to detect the exact locations of the Dragon Balls. She’s on a mission to find all seven orbs, but first she must convince young Son Goku to join her on her quest. With a monkey tail, superhuman strength and a magic staff for a weapon, Son Goku is ready to set out on the adventure of a lifetime... Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The Dragon Ball Z Complete Box Set contains all 26 volumes of the manga that propelled the global phenomenon that started with Dragon Ball into one of the world’s most recognizable and best-selling manga. Also includes an exclusive double-sided poster and collector’s booklet featuring fun Dragon Ball Z trivia and guides as well as an interview with its legendary creator. I was a little bit disappointed with DBZ after DB, but i slightly expected how it'd turn out. As it progresses, the series becomes obsessed with increasing Goku and his ilk's 'strength' through various Deus Ex Machina' s, and the entirety of Toriyama's effort is to draw male action figures with rectangular chests delivering punches (or Kamehahas). Over time the series takes a very obvious toll on him, with his humour completely vanishing towards the end and he sounding like a short broken record, portraying his own (originally inspiring) protagonist as the paragon of exercising hard in the world (impressing his peers, teacher, earthlings, lord of earth, lord of world and lord of lords in the way (you can see how it drags on. Toriyama first uses adjectives, then brings in a unit to measure power, has it revved up , then introduces another one, and finally moves to adjectives again)). On a seperate note, the series os replete with misogyny and harrassment and the frequency with which old lechers appear reminds you of a certain movie industry. I dont mean to undermine Toriyama's obvious effort in drawing explosive battles with great cleanliness, but i wish he had hired a storyteller