Dragon Ball
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Dragon Ball
- Score
- 7.98/10 (727,996 votes)
- Rank
- #763
- Popularity
- #152
- Type
- TV
- Episodes
- 153
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Aired
- 1986–1989
- Season
- Winter 1986
- Studios
- Toei Animation
Gokuu Son is a young boy who lives in the woods all alone—that is, until a girl named Bulma runs into him in her search for a set of magical objects called the "Dragon Balls." Since the artifacts are said to grant one wish to whoever collects all seven, Bulma hopes to gather them…
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Key facts
- Genre
- Adventure Fantasy comedy Martial arts
- Based on
- Dragon Ball , by Akira Toriyama
- Developed by
- Takao Koyama , (#131–153)
- Directed by
- Minoru Okazaki [ ja ] Daisuke Nishio
- Voices of
- Masako Nozawa Hiromi Tsuru Mayumi Tanaka Kōhei Miyauchi Tōru Furuya Hirotaka Suzuoki
- Music by
- Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Opening theme
- " Makafushigi Adventure! " by Hiroki Takahashi [ ja ]
- Ending theme
- "Romantic Ageru yo" by Ushio Hashimoto [ ja ]
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Number span no of episodes
- 153 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Keizo Shichijō [ ja ] Kōzō Morishita [ ja ] , (#132–153)
- Producers
- Tokizō Tsuchiya (#1–101) Kenji Shimizu [ ja ] , (#1–28, 92–153) Junichi Ishikawa, (#131–132)
- Cinematography
- List Motoaki Ikegami Kiyoshi Saeki (#19, 21) Noriko Suzuki, (#20, 22, 97–103 odd) Takao Satō, (#44–64 even; 67–77 odd) Tetsu Nakamura, (#66, 71, 76) Hirotoshi Rissen (#80) Kenji Ninomiya (#93) Tetsuo Ōfuji, (#98–152 even) Katsunori Maehara, (#105–153 odd)
- Editor
- Shinichi Fukumitsu
- Running time
- 24 minutes
- Production companies
- Fuji Television Toei Animation
- Network
- Fuji Television
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Wikidata facts
- FilmAffinity ID
- 271885
- Official website
- www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/dragon
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- start time
- 1986-02-26
- end time
- 1989-04-12
- number of episodes
- 153
- title
- ドラゴンボール
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Article
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It ran for a total of 153 episodes on Fuji Television and its FNS affiliates from February 26, 1986, to April 19, 1989. The series adapts first 194 chapters of the manga series Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama, which was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995. The anime was broadcast in 81 countries worldwide and is the first animated television series in the Dragon Ball franchise. It follows the adventures of Goku, a young eccentric boy with a monkey tail and exceptional strength who has a passion for fighting and battling enemies.
Animated film adaptations based on the series include: Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986), Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987), Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (1988), and the 10th anniversary film, Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996). The series was immediately followed by a 1989 direct sequel, titled Dragon Ball Z, which had its own follow-ups with Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball Daima. The English dubbed version of the original Dragon Ball series released in the United States was edited for content and dialogue.