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Dragon Ball Z's story has a much more depth and action filled in it than Dragon Ball's. Akira Toriyama turns Goku's enemies form being 'funny and entertaining' to a truly evil, strong, and even sadistic characters. The main theme of the Dragon Ball saga is slightly turned, from searching the dragon balls theme, to somekind of quest for power and saving the universe theme. Although the Dragon Balls are still become an important part of the story, but the story mostly circle around Son Goku's journey to become the strongest man in the Universe.

The story picks up where Dragon Ball has left off. As the next chapter of Dragon Ball saga, Dragon Ball Z begins years after the last scene of Dragon Ball, where Goku left his friends to go with Chi Chi. This time, Goku return and appear in front of his friends with a boy, who is in fact his son, Son Gohan. At the same time, a strange alien from other planet arrived, and looking for our hero. As it turns out, this alien is called Raditz, Son Goku's brother. This is the moment of truth, where Akira Toriyama introduced us to a fact that Goku is actually an alien race called Saiyans from the planet Vegeta. This is the begining of Son Goku's quest to become the strongest man on the universe, since Saiyans are a warrior race, which born and live for fights, and will grew stronger and stronger everytime they survive an almost death situation.

This chapter of the story are then called Saiyan Saga. In this saga, Goku fights three strongest Saiyans that survived the planet's destruction, Vegeta, Nappa and the weak Raditz. This chapter/ saga introduced Vegeta to the fans, who will not only became a famous character on his own in manga/ anime world, but also build a foundation for a all cold, silent- strong type, a bit evil, hero's rival characters in manga and anime nowadays. By knowing his origins and meeting stronger enemies, Goku grows even stronger. To defeat these aliens who threatened to destroy the earth, Goku had to team up with Piccolo and all his friends, including Krilin and his son Gohan. Vegeta is finally defeated, but Goku let him escapes the earth.

The aftermath of his battle with Vegeta leaves Goku paralyzed for some time. So in order to help their friends that was killed in the battle, Krilin, Son Gohan and Bulma have to go to Planet Namec, to find and use the dragon balls there. But what they didn't know, is that a universe tyrant is also in that planet, looking too for the dragon balls. His name is Frieza, the strongest enemy Goku will have to face this far. This chapter, will then be called the Frieza Saga. Vegeta who escapes the earth after the events in Saiyan Saga also arrived in namec to find the mystical orbs. This is when things got complicated, where three different teams are looking for the same dragon balls. Our heroes on one side, Vegeta on the other, and Frieza and his cronies on the other. To defeat Frieza, Goku has to transform into a legendary warrior, Super Saiyan. As a super saiyan, Goku experience quite a change. His muscle is bigger, his eyes are sharper with even some evilish looks in it, he became quite temperamental, and especially his hair turned yellow and even pointier. This is the Super Saiyan traits every fan will love even until now.

After Frieza Saga, Dragon Ball Z went through two more major sagas, the Cell Saga and the Maajin Buu Saga. The Cell Saga brings our heroes face to face againts a very powerful humanoid called Cell. This saga introduced to the reader a character called Trunks, who in facts Vegeta and Bulma's son from the future. This saga is said to be the inspiration for the TV New Hit series Heroes, the first season. Uncanny similiarity is seen between the two stories, such as:

1. A mysterious killer who killed people by absorbing their power/ essences - Cell in DBZ, Sylar in Heroes.
2. A hero from the future who came back to warn of the danger, this hero brings a sword on his back - Future Trunks form DBZ and Future Hiro from Heroes.
3. The view used to show Trunks looking at the destroyed city in DBZ's scene (Trunks' Story) is very similiar to the scene where Hiro Nakamura went to the future and see the destroyed New York.
4. In the end of the story, someone blows up, and another one saves the city by taking the man who is going to blew up someplace else - Cell blows up, and Goku take him to Kaii World in DBZ, and Peter Petrelli blows up, and Nathan Petrelli take him up to high altitude in Heroes.

This saga also introduced Super Saiyan 2 phase, the second transformation after the normal Super Saiyan. It leaves Son Gohan as the hero of the story.

The final chapter of Dragon Ball Z Maajin Buu Saga, gives the fans Maajin Buu. A very powerful demon with a bit mystical power. Maajin Buu's character is funny in it's own way. This final chapter gives alot of new characters, facts and powers, like Super Saiyan 3, Fusion and Pottara. Goku's second son, Son Goten is introduced in this saga. Super Saiyan 3 is very different than Super Saiyan 1 and 2. In the third transformation, Goku's hair become long and yellow. He got electricity all over his body like the one in the Super Saiyan 2, and his eyes got even sinister. His eyebrows disappears and 2 layer of pupil is seen. To defeat Maajin Buu, Goku use the help of everyone in the earth and universe including the people in Hell to build a Genki Dama (Spirit Bomb in English) and ends Maajin Buu's life forever.

Thus ends the Dragon Ball Z saga. The story actually ends at the Tenka Ichi Budokai, when Goku finds his wish granted, and leaves the arena with the reincarnation of Maajin Buu, a boy that called Uub. He leaves his friends and families again, to train Uub how to fight, so he can fight him properly one day. After all, Son Goku loves a good fight.

Today, 20 years after it's first release, Dragon Ball Z is still as huge as ever, with loyal fans all over the world. Dragon Ball Z becoming more then a saga, but almost a legend. New Dragon Ball's stuff are still made every month, from video games, accesories, toys, action figures, even the manga got re- released, to a big budget movie DBZ, by Twentieth Century Fox set to release in 2009.