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The animated series

Dragon Ball is a manga by Akira Toriyama that first appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in 1984. Toriyama will use the Chinese tale Journey to the West (Si Yeou Ki) to create his manga.

In 1989, Toriyama made his hero grow up and the animated series was renamed Dragon Ball Z. The world of Dragon Ball grows by revealing the origins of Son Goku who will have to fight increasingly powerful opponents.

The series then reveals the past of Son Goku who is of the Saiyans race, barbarian people conquering planets. Helped by his friends, our hero will be brought to fight his brother, Raditz arrived on Earth and later two other Saiyans, Nappa and Vegeta. At the end of an epic fight with Vegeta, Son Goku spared him and the two Saiyans became eternal rivals.

On the planet Namek where our heroes traveled to search for other crystal balls (Dragon Balls) in order to revive their fallen friends. Son Goku met a powerful figure, the tyrant Freeza (original Frieza), responsible for the destruction of the Saiyans' home planet and their deaths. In a memorable battle between the two opponents, Son Goku, enraged at seeing his friends being killed by the tyrant, transformed into a Super Saiyan and defeated Frieza. In a mecha form, he will come to Earth with the plan to wipe out the Earthlings before Son Goku returns. His plan will fail when Vegeta's son Trunks, from the future, intervenes to warn the Z Team of new enemies.

Our friends will have a lot to do with the androids of the Red Ribbon Army. Son Goku, sick of the heart, will have to heal himself while his friends face the Androids 19 and 20 and subsequently the Androids 17, 18 and 16 programmed to kill our hero. Then comes from the future, a strange creature named Cell. This new enemy needs to absorb Androids 17 and 18 to become perfect; plan that he will succeed in carrying out. During the Cell Games, tournament organized by Cell, he will send to the mat the world champion of martial arts, Hercules (Mr. Satan), to then compete against Son Goku. Goku will give up the fight to make way for his son, Gohan.

Dragon Ball Z finished, Toei Animation then launches Dragon Ball GT, an animated series in which Son Goku and Vegeta will transform into Super Saiyan 4, and then Dragon Ball Kai, a redesign of the Dragon Ball Z anime to better fit to the manga.

To the delight of fans, two films were unveiled, titled Battle of God and The Resurrection of 'F' (Fukkatsu no F in original version), and will be released in 2013 and 2015 respectively. They will serve as the basis for Dragon Ball Super.

Dragon Ball Super will be adapted in parallel in an animated series by Toei Animation and in manga by the mangaka Toyotarō, succeeding Akira Toriyama who nevertheless remains master of the project. The world of Son Goku is getting bigger once again as our heroes are now part of Universe 7 and there are twelve in all.

The Gods of Destruction and their minions appear and among them, Lord Beerus and his second, Whis, who are in search of the Super Saiyan God. Their quest will lead them to meet our heroes. Son Goku, always eager for a fight, realizes that there are other very powerful people. Faced with Frieza, resurrected and wanting revenge on his worst enemy, Son Goku and Vegeta will have to transform into Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan (renamed Super Saiyan Blue) to fight the new form of Freezer named Golden Freezer.

Our two favorite Saiyans will go into the future at the behest of Trunks to fight off an evil looking physical being of Son Goku, Goku Black, and Zamasu who want to exterminate humans. Then comes the Tournament of Power, martial arts tournament for the survival of the Universes, organized by Zen’ō.