THE LIBRARY

Drunken Master, an editor's kung fu plan, and Journey to the West, in Toriyama's stated record.

Z was a 1989 TV rebranding. Toriyama picked the last letter because he wanted to stop.

One world: Goku chased General Blue into Penguin Village in chapter 81, and Arale finished the fight.

519 chapters, a debut three months after Dr. Slump, and a circulation peak of 6.53 million in the final year.

A geezer, a China doll, and a bug monster: the phone calls that rebuilt the villains, in Toriyama's own retelling.

A 1986 Epoch shooter almost nobody has seen, and the Famicom game America received with its own name scrubbed off.

Japan named it for a shout in the theme song. America renamed it for a tournament, and the split lasted nineteen years.

Volume 1 in Japanese and English side by side, the four Japanese editions of the manga, and the doors to the craft, anime, and games questions.

42 tankobon, 34 kanzenban with new Toriyama covers and a rewritten ending, 32 Full Color volumes, and 18 magazine sized volumes: one manga, four Japanese shapes.

No plan, a storyboard that doubled as the draft, one assistant, a G pen good for forty pages, and a manuscript driven to Nagoya Airport after all night sessions.

Animator Toyoo Ashida's taut line taught his pen speed, Goku had to grow up, and Super Saiyan hair stayed uninked to save the blacking in.

About 38 pure filler episodes in 291: the Garlic Jr. arc, a fake Namek, a driving test, an afterlife tournament, and the stretched fights in between.

Chi-Chi ordered it, in episode 125 from February 5, 1992, the anime original driving test that became the most beloved filler in the series.

He named it, drew its cast, its robot, and its spaceship, and called the 64 episode Toei sequel a grand side story of the original Dragon Ball.

291 episodes became 159, the voices were recorded again, and the new Yamamoto score was withdrawn in 2011 and replaced with Kikuchi's original music.

Shunsuke Kikuchi, of Kamen Rider and Doraemon: 23 packages and hundreds of pieces for Dragon Ball and Z, still touring concert halls.

Toriyama chose Masako Nozawa from the auditions in 1986. She also voices Gohan, Goten, and Bardock, and holds two Guinness world records for the role.

Dimps' 2002 PlayStation 2 fighter: the anime rebuilt in 3D, 3.5 million copies shipped, a rebuild ordered by Torishima, and a score replaced in the HD remaster.

The opening arc of Dragon Ball: a monkey-tailed boy, a teenage inventor, and a wish-granting dragon, before the series became a martial arts epic.

Dragon Ball's longest early adventure: Goku alone against an entire army, introducing androids, Dr. Gero's legacy, and the Korin Tower climb.

The arc where Dragon Ball turned dark: a demon king, dead friends, and the first time the series' stakes became permanent.

The opening of Dragon Ball Z: Goku learns he is an alien, dies fighting his brother, and Vegeta arrives. Where the Z era truly begins.

Namek, the hunt for a second set of Dragon Balls, and the first Super Saiyan transformation. The best-selling stretch of the manga explained.

Time travel, androids, and a villain built from everyone's cells. The Cell saga explained, including how editorial changes shaped it.

The final arc of the original manga: seven years later, a pink ancient monster, fusion in both its forms, and the ending Toriyama chose.