Toriyama's humor/parody manga Nekomajin, released after Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, features several concepts introduced in the series, and several Dragon Ball Z characters make various appearances in this manga. read more
Unlike the first two anime series, it is not based on Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga, being created by Toei Animation as a sequel to the series or as Toriyama called it, a "grand side story of the original Dragon Ball.". read more
To keep it simple, DBZ is the continuation of the story that started in Dragon Ball. It revolves around the alien Goku who was raised on Earth, his son Gohan, and their friends (known as the Z-Fighters) in their quest to get stronger and defend Earth from evil. read more
Dragon Ball Z (Japanese: ドラゴンボール Z (ゼット), Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto, commonly abbreviated as DBZ) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the sequel to the Dragon Ball anime and adapts the latter 325 chapters of the original 519-chapter Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. read more