Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.
Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls.
[1][2] Between December 4, 2002, and April 2, 2004, the manga was re-released in a collection of 34 kanzenban, which included a slightly rewritten ending, new covers, and color artwork from its original magazine run.
[3][4] A sōshūhen edition that aims to recreate the manga as it was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump with color pages, promotional text, and next chapter previews, was published in 18 volumes between May 13, 2016, and January 13, 2017.
Viz initially titled volumes seventeen through forty-two of the manga Dragon Ball Z to reduce confusion for their readers.
[7][8] Between June 2008 and August 2009, Viz re-released both series in a wideban format called "Viz Big Edition", which is a collection of three volumes in one.
[11] This version uses the Japanese kanzenban covers and marks the first time in English that the entire series was released under the Dragon Ball name.
Dragon Ball SD is a colored spin-off manga written and illustrated by Naho Ōishi that has been published in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine since its debut issue released in December 2010.
[92] The manga is a condensed retelling of Goku's various adventures as a child, with many details changed, in a super deformed art style, hence the title.
(DRAGON BALL外伝 転生したらヤムチャだった件, Doragon Bōru Gaiden: Tensei-shitara Yamucha Datta Ken) is a three-chapter spin-off manga written and illustrated by Dragongarow Lee about a high school boy who wakes up after an accident in the body of Yamcha in the Dragon Ball manga.
!, Sūpā Doragon Bōru Hīrōzu Yunibāsu Misshon) is a manga written and illustrated by Yoshitaka Nagayama.