Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball was a popular anime series during the 1980s. But when its sequel, Dragon Ball Z,premiered in 1989, it took Toriyama's franchise to a whole new level. It continued the ...

It's easy to underestimate just how influential the Dragon Ball franchise is, but the Akira Toriyama manga essentially defined what an action shonen manga would be for the next 40 years. Goku became ...