Dragon Ball

Akira Toriyama's world famous manga Dragon Ball Z begins with Dragon Ball at 1989. It tells a story about a monkey- tailed young boy, Son Goku, whose only desire is to get stronger and to fight people who are stronger than him. Son Goku lives on a mountain somewhere, far from the city and lived a simple life, filled only with martial arts training and food hunting. Goku had a Dragon Ball, a magical orb which the legend said, that if you succeed in collecting 7 of them, a dragon will appear and grant whatever wish you desire. One day, a girl named Bulma came along looking for the Dragon Ball, and thus begin Goku's journey.

Dragon Ball is a comedic, fun, and very loose translation from chinese legend Journey to the west. The story is very 'light', and fun to read. Goku's first enemies, are funny enemies, that reader can find them 'quite entertaining' than dangerous. Goku's journey then bring him to meet Kamesennin or Mutenroshi (Master Roshi in English version) and his best friend ever, Kuririn (Krilin in English). Dragon Ball's story got a bit serious when Goku fight his first dangerous and real evil enemy, Piccolo. Piccolo is a demon of the past, that got resurected when Goku is fighting in the middle of a World Fighting Tournament (Tenka Ichi Budokai). When Krilin got killed by Piccolo's henchman, Goku decided to fight and defeat the demon once and for all. After a long, hard, journey and with help from his new acquired allies, Goku managed to defeat Piccolo. But at the second before his death, Piccolo lays an egg, and a new young Piccolo is reborn from the egg.

Goku then go with Kami Sama (Kami in English version) and Mr. Popo to train until the next World Tournament, where he will be fighting the new reborned Piccolo. Returned to the next tournament as a young man, he surprises his friends by his new attitude and calmer appearance. In this tournament Goku reunited with Chi Chi, a girl from his past that will be his wife. After a heavy fight that involves destroying all the arena and the arena buildings, Son Goku finally defeated Piccolo. But as Kami moves to kill him, Goku stop Kami, and saves Piccolo's life. He knows, that Piccolo is actually shares Kami's soul. If Piccolo dies, Kami will dies too. He assures Kami, that if Piccolo will attack again, he will stop him again. After Goku gives Piccolo a Magic Bean to save his life, Piccolo immediately flew away and swear that he will kill Goku someday.

With this said and done, Goku take Chi Chi away, hop on his Kintoun Cloud, and flew away, leaving his friends behind. This is the end of the Dragon Ball title.


 

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