[2] With his background in a rock band, Kageyama said this director had previously revitalized his career by choosing him to sing the theme to Dengeki Sentai Changeman when he wanted a rock singer who could sing the upbeat theme songs that were being written for anime in increasing number in the 1980s.

This director told Kageyama he would be singing the theme to Dragon Ball Z and wanted him involved from the earliest stage.

[2] Kageyama had been reading the Dragon Ball manga in Weekly Shōnen Jump for quite some time and was shocked when he was offered the job.

[3] Kageyama and his band made a demo of the song that the singer described as American rock in the vein of Bon Jovi.

[5] Because of the music's complex chords and structures that can not be played with a single guitar, Mori sensed an atmosphere of progressive rock, which he is a fan of.

The first "Cha-La" comes from "chara ni suru" (チャラにする) and means "to pretend nothing happened", while "Head-Cha-La" comes from "hetchara" (ヘッチャラ), which means "It's OK."[5] Mori explained, "A lot of things might have happened in my life up until this point, but once I reset myself it all becomes OK and I'm ready to give things another shot.

Ike said he wanted to capture Dragon Ball's sense of mystery in the song and exude a "mystical kind of atmosphere".

[6] The lyrics were written by Naruhisa Arakawa, who was a screenwriter on the Dragon Ball anime, based on scat vocals that were added during the music's composition period.

[6] They worked with female singer Manna on how to best time the lyrics to draw out their uniqueness, added choir parts to give the words more impact, and used shouts and other elements to add more variety and color.

[6] After Manna finished recording her vocals, Ike continued to add elements to "turn up the sense of wonder".

Wanting a kind of chant that sounded like a magic spell at the beginning of the song, he added backmasked vocals inspired by the technique used to voice the aliens in the 1977 film Star Wars.

I recorded it on a 6mm tape and then just flipped it upside down and played it backwards through a 48-channel digital mixer, then pitched it up and added some effects.

*laughs*"[2] Arukara's 2016 song "Chaohan Music", which is an ending theme of Dragon Ball Super, pays tribute to "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!"

This version features a completely different composition and is coupled with a new recording of "We Gotta Power", a different Dragon Ball Z theme that Kageyama performed.

[10] It served as the theme song of the video game Super Dragon Ball Z, which was released four months later.

[14][15] The Italian band Highlord recorded a version that appears as a bonus track on the Japanese release of their album Instant Madness.

When the two versions are lined up alongside the film's original soundtrack, the artwork from all three connect to form a single large image.