"Dragon Ball Z: Doragon bôru zetto" (1989) TV series 1989-1996

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

Minoru Okazaki

Writers:

Katsuyuki Sumizawa (writer)
Akira Toriyama (story)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | unknown

Release Date:

26 April 1989 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller

Tagline:

Seven for a wish.

Plot:

Five years after the end of "Dragonball", Son Gokû reunites with his friends, bringing along his four-year old son Gohan...

Plot Keywords:

Warrior | Fight | Idealism | Mass Murder | Villain

Cast

Jôji Yanami	...	Narrator / ... (291 episodes, 1989-1996)
Masako Nozawa	...	Son Gokû / ... (290 episodes, 1989-1996)
Mayumi Tanaka	...	Kuririn / ... (243 episodes, 1989-1996)
Ryô Horikawa	...	Vegeta (219 episodes, 1989-1996)
Toshio Furukawa	...	Piccolo (207 episodes, 1989-1996)
Hiromi Tsuru	...	Bulma (181 episodes, 1989-1996)
Takeshi Kusao	...	Trunks / ... (144 episodes, 1989-1996)
Daisuke Gôri	...	Mister Satan / ... (126 episodes, 1989-1996)
Naoko Watanabe	...	Chi-Chi / ... (120 episodes, 1989-1996)

Runtime:

25 min (291 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Brazil:12 | Brazil:Livre (cut) | USA:TV-Y7 (cut US version) | West Germany:12 | USA:TV-PG (uncut US version)

Company:

Bird Studios

Trivia:

The character named Bulma changes her hairstyle, 16 times from DB to the end of DBZ

Goofs:

Plot holes: In Dead Zone, Garlic Jr. avenges his father by trying to kill Piccolo, and therefore Kami, at the beginning of the movie. Yet Garlic Jr. wants to get the Dragon Balls to wish for immortality. Killing Kami/Piccolo will cause the Dragon Balls to vanish. Because of this, Garlic Jr. should have gotten immortal life BEFORE attacking Piccolo. It's also possible Garlic Jr. didn't know killing Kami would destroy the Dragon Balls, but this is unlikely as his father tried to become Kami, and therefore Garlic Jr would therefore have knowledge of the subject.

Quotes:

Vegeta: [after killing Android 19] Too Bad! I only wish that there was a junkyard, so could give him a proper burial.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Robot Chicken: Robot Chicken Christmas Special (#1.21)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

We Gotta Power

Came in 2002 (Where I live), looked like garbade, but underrated

Wha-? Are you crazy, Nah...the thing is, I really like this show, and it's NOT because of the fighting. Too many people just dimiss the show as a mindless punch-a-thon, as "that fighting anime that turned me off all fighting anime." The thing is, the characters are all really nicely developed. As we watch the show over the years, we get to see the characters grow, and it happens so gradually that we don't even realize it's happening. Toriyama's Freeza saga was probably the best-told part, despite the fact that the anime completely f-ed it up--the reason for everyone to be there in the first place actually made sense, and the transition from the Vegeta fight to the Freeza fight (and the reason Vegeta eventually joined with the rest of the group) was actually logical. I think the show has a lot more substance than everyone else says, but I realize by now that everyone's already made up their mind about the show and no matter what I say, their opinions will stay the soon.