Thursday, May 7, 2009

Where to Watch DBZ Episodes Online

DBZ is short for Dragon Ball Z and many fans use this to refer to this show or specific episodes on the series. If you want full length shows for GT, Z and all other dragon ball TV shows you will have to do a little bit or research online. But if you just want some clips, video sharing sites like YouTube have plenty of clips that you can view or watch. Just go to their website and do a search for the episode that you want and you'll get several listings of videos that users have uploaded and that you can watch over the internet.


DBZ is a very popular Japanese animated TV series produced by Toei Animation (used to be produced by Toei Doga). It is the sequel to Dragon Ball Anime, the first 16 volumes of a 42 volume Dragon Ball Manga series created by Akira Toriyama. DBZ adapts the last 26 volumes of the original manga (Manga is the Japanese word for comics). The series features the adventures of Son Goku and his companions who defend the Earth and other fictional planets from different super villains. The series has lots of fans and viewers worldwide and thousands of people search internet search engines looking for news, episodes, games and more online. The series has finally become extremely popular in the US too. Here are some tips to help you locate and find places where you can watch Dragon Ball Z episodes online over the internet.

One of the easiest places to find links to video streams to the series is the discussion sections of fan sites. The series has millions of fans some of whom have set up websites where they frequently post gossip, news and other things. Some sites have discussions forums which are quite helpful if you are looking for specific information about the show. You will normally find a knowledgeable person who will be able to tell you or provide you a link to a site where you can find the information or video streams that you need. Remember, there are lots of fans who are looking for the same episodes that you are after and many committed fans usually like to share their discoveries with other fans. So fan sites are a good place to start if you are looking for DBZ episodes or where to download and watch them online.


You can also watch the episodes from the websites of the television stations that are currently airing the series. Just look in the TV guides provided by satellite and cable television companies and make a list of the channels that are showing the series. Next visit their websites and find out if they stream or web cast their programs online. If they do, then you don't have to look any further unless you are looking for particular episodes.


You can also try checking TV guides for international and foreign TV stations. There are many sites online that lists these stations including their internet TV streams so that you can watch their programs using windows media or the Realplayer. Note down the ones that are showing the DBZ program and bookmark them so that you can find them easily next time you want to watch an episode. There is also software that you can use to pick up TV streams from thousands of TV stations. If you do a search online, you'll find a lot of search engine listings with different software offering this type of facility. In order to make a good choice, read several reviews about the software from various independent sites so that you don't get ripped off.

Super Dragon Ball Z Cheat Codes

Collect seven Dragon Balls to make a wish. Items on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes from Shenron are unlocked after making a second wish.


Kaio-Sama Planet: Watch the ending of Original mode five times.

King Kai Planet: Make over five wishes to unlock this wish on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

King Piccolo: Listed on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

Majin Vegeta: Listed on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

Mecha Frieza: Make over ten wishes to unlock this wish on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

Ultimate Gohan: Listed on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

Videl: Make over five wishes to unlock this wish on the Enhanced Set Of Wishes.

Dragon Finish: Successfully complete Original mode with Goku, Gohan (Cell Arc), Vegeta, Cell, Freeza, or Majin Vegeta without using any continues.

Dragon Vitality: Have a total of 50 battles (Original, Vs., Z-Survivor).

Dragon Soul: Have a total of 100 battles (Original, Vs., Z-Survivor).

Nappa's Flame Pillar: Have a full Draw Match in Original, Vs., Z-Survivor mode.

New Alternate Costume: Wish and unlock Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Piccolo, Kuririn, Android 18, Chichi, or Videl's third costume color to unlock an alternate costume for that character.

New Model Scouter: To get a new blue Scouter, get your battle power to one million. Your Scouter will break. Collect the Dragon Balls to get the wish.

Final Model Scouter: Unlock the New Model Scouter, then get your battle power to a certain level to unlock the wish.

Change Wallpaper in Customize Mode: Press Up, Triangle, Down, X, L1, Square, R1, Circle. If you entered the code correctly, Goku will speak.

Majin Boo Narration Voice: Successfully complete Original mode with Majin Boo.

Videl Narration Voice: Successfully complete Original mode with Videl.

Play Dragon Ball Z Games

The original Dragon Ball was a Japanese manga series which was first serialised in a Japanese weekly. It first appeared in 1984 and was extremely popular. It spread throughout the world in a variety of formats and translations and appeared on television as dubbed serials. Dragon Ball Z was created after the original series was completed and continued where this left off. As with all successful television series, there has been a great deal of merchandise released. Items such as cards, games and toys have been a huge hit with children and have increased the popularity of the Dragon Ball stories. With computer games being so popular, it is no wonder that many children, and indeed adults, are keen to play Dragon Ball Z games and these are now huge sellers.

If you want to play Dragon Ball Z games you will find that there is a huge choice of titles available in the United States. These games are available for all the popular consoles including Playstation, Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, Gamecube, X Box, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced. All the games feature the well known characters and most will include up to 150 different characters and many levels of play.

For the younger fans who are keen to play Dragon Ball Z games, you will find that the fighting engine in some of the games, for example Ultimate Battle 22, make the play simple enough for even the youngest players. Most of the games can be played by multiple players and some, such as Taiketsu, are absolutely brilliant for challenging your friends in multi player battles.

If you want to play Dragon Ball Z games amongst your friends you must be certain that you have compatible equipment and all aspects of installation are correct. You will then be able to have long and heated battle amongst your friends. Some of the later Dragon Ball Z games show in improvement in the graphics. This was always a great aspect of the games, but recently you notice some wonderful facial expressions during the fighting and if they are not doing too well then you may start to notice that the characters start to look a little battle weary and their clothes show the effect of repeated fighting. Every little detail, such as these, goes to make the series of games very enjoyable.

Some of the games can become quite involved. In most cases, as you progress, you will meet up with new characters, of which there is a seemingly unending supply. You do not need to be a fan of the Dragon Ball series to play Dragon Ball Z games. A general understanding of the story lines can be gained from playing the games themselves and keeping an eye on things. Scenarios can become quite complicated at times but, as you get to know the characters and plots, you will find that you can become as involved as you wish.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

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Wanting to break from the Western influences common in his other series, when Akira Toriyama began work on Dragon Ball he decided to loosely model it on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. He also redeveloped one of his earlier one shot manga series, Dragon Boy, which was initially serialized in Fresh Jump and released in a single tankōbon volume in 1983. This short work combined the comedic style of Toriyama's successful six-year series Dr. Slump with a more action-oriented plot and paid homage to famous martial art actor Jackie Chan.Toriyama notes that his goal for the series was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story.


In the early concept of the series, Goku and Piccolo were from Earth. With the introduction of Kami, the idea of having fights from other planets was established and Goku and Piccolo were changed to alien species. For the female characters, Toriyama felt it was not fun to draw "weak females" so he created women that he felt were not only "beautiful and sexy", but also "strong". Going against the normal convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size, he designed many of Dragon Ball's most powerful characters with small statures, including the protagonist, Goku.


The fighting techniques were initially unnamed, but the series editor felt it would be better to name them all. Toriyama proceeded to create names for all of the techniques, except for the Kamehameha which his wife named when Toriyama was indecisive about what it should be called. When creating the fictional world of the series, Toriyama decided to create basing it from his own imagination to avoid referencing popular culture. However the island where the World Martial Arts Tournament is held is modeled after Bali. When having fights in the manga, Toriyama had the characters go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. In order to advance the story quickly, he also gave most fighters the ability to fly so they could travel to other parts of the world without inconvenience. This was also the reasoning behind Goku learning to teletransport (thus allowing characters to move to any planet in a second).


After the first chapters were released, readers commented that Goku seemed rather plain, so his appearance was changed. More characters (such as Master Roshi and Krillin) and martial arts tournaments were added to give the manga a greater emphasis on fighting. Knowing readers would expect Goku to win the tournaments, Toriyama had him lose the first two while continuing his initial goal of having Goku be the champion and hero. At the end of the Cell arc, he intended for Gohan to replace Goku as the series protagonist, but then felt the character was not suited for the role and changed his mind.

Toriyama based the Red Ribbon Army from a video game he had played named Spartan X in which enemies tended to appear very fast. After the second tournament concluded, Toriyama wanted to have a villain who would be a true "bad guy." After creating Piccolo as the new villain, he noted that it was one of the most interesting parts of the stories and that he, and his son, became one of the favorite characters of the series. With Goku established as the strongest fighter on Earth, Toriyama decided to increase the number of villains that came from outer space. Finding the escalating enemies to be a pain to work with feeling it was too simple, he created the Ginyu squad to add more balance to the series. During this period of the series, Toriyama placed less emphasis on the series art work, simplifying the lines and sometimes making things "too square." He found himself having problems determining the colors for characters and sometimes ended up changing them unintentionally mid-story. In later accounts, Toriyama noted that he didn't plan out the details of the story, resulting in strange occurrences and discrepancies later in the series.

Goku next journey

Plot dragonballZ



A monkey-tailed boy named Goku is found by an old martial arts expert who raises him as his grandson. One day Goku meets a girl named Bulma and together they go on a quest to retrieve the seven Dragon Balls, mythical objects that can summon a dragon who will grant any wish. Along the way, they meet and befriend a plethora of martial artists. They also undergo rigorous training regimes and educational programs in order to fight in the World Martial Arts Tournament, a tournament in which the most powerful fighters in the world compete. Outside the tournaments, Goku faces diverse villains such as Emperor Pilaf, the Red Ribbon Army, a demon known as Piccolo Daimao and his offspring.

As a young adult, Goku meets his older brother, Raditz, who tells him that they come from a race of extraterrestrials called Saiyans. The Saiyans had sent Goku to Earth to destroy it, but his ship crashes upon arrival. Goku fell into a deep ravine and lost all memory of his mission. 

Goku refuses to help Raditz continue the mission, after which he begins to encounter others who want to battle him, such as the Saiyan prince Vegeta. He also encounters Frieza, who is considered to be one of the strongest beings in the universe, after which Goku begins training his first child, Son Gohan, to be his successor. Years later, a group of soldiers from the Red Ribbon army known as androids appear to kill Goku. Another android, Cell, absorbs Androids #17 and #18 from the Red Ribbon army to increase his power, then fights Goku and Gohan, resulting in the former's death. Goku is capable of returning to life, but decides to stay dead for seven years to train in the Other World. When he returns, he is drawn into a battle for the universe against an extraterrestrial named Majin Buu

Joined by Vegeta and Gohan, the evil half of Buu is destroyed and the Good Buu (Mr. Buu) settles down with them. Ten years later at a martial arts tournament, Goku meets evil Buu's human reincarnation, Uub. At the end of the series, Goku takes Uub away on a journey to train him as another successor.

Dragonball z


Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Inspired by the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West, it follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through middle age as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical objects known as the Dragon Balls, which are known to grant any wish. Along his trip, Goku meets several friends and fights against several villains who plan to get the Dragon Balls to grant their wishes and some who aim to conquer the world.
The 42 tankōbon have been adapted into three
anime series produced by Toei Animation: Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. Additionally, Toei has developed seventeen animated feature films and three television specials. Several companies have developed various types of merchanising such as a collectible trading card game, and a large number of video games.
The series is licensed for an English language release in North America by
Viz Media, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz Manga, and in Australia and New Zealand by Chuang Yi. Several companies have dubbed and aired the three anime series in North America. In China, it was produced a live-action film adaptation in 1989. In 2002, 20th Century Fox began production of the first American-made live-action film which was released on April 10, 2009.
Since its release, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular manga series of its time in both Japan and North America. It enjoys a high readership, with over 150 million volumes of the series sold by 2007. Several
manga artists have noted that the manga series was the inspiration for their own now popular works, including Naruto and One Piece. The anime is also highly popular, ranking number 12 among the best anime series of all time in 2006. Reviewers praise the art, characterization, and humor of the manga story. The anime series have had more mixed reviews, with the first also praised for its characterizations, but the second was criticized for its long, repetitive fights, and the third series considered repetitive with childish fights and "goofy" character designs.