General INFO.
Dragon Ball/Z/GT originated from a manga( comic book)in Japan. It was then made into a television show.It became a hit succes and many people watched it. This whole saga is divided into three different series. All of them deal with Dragon Balls. There are seven Dragon Balls. If you collect all seven, then the dragon Shenlong is then summoned and you are granted one wish. Then the balls fly off into all seperate directions and cannot be used for one year. Also they cannot make the same wish twice. There is also another set on the planet called Namek where the Namek race reside. The first was Dragon Ball. This emphasized humor more than fighting, but the fighting became very popular. So the creator then made Dragon Ball Z which was heavy on fighting. It still has it's very funny humor. It was in my opinion the best of the three, but I can't really say because I haven't seen the other two, just read 'em. After that he made Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball GT is practically the same as Dragon Ball Z but it dealt a little more in space and had the main character, Goku be wished back into a little boy. Dragon Ball then ended and the creator then started a new series
FUNimation,(thank god!!!) saw how well of a show it was and decided to tranlate it for America. I can't remeber what station it was on originally, maybe FOX, I know it was on FOX in my area Sunday mornings. Well anyway it was put on early in the morning so many people did not see it so it did not become popular. It was then sold to Cartoon Network and started airing episodes I believe in August of 98' and received very high ratings. 53 episodes were translated I think so FUNimation is translating more right now and it is rumored that it will be out this fall in 99'. I can't wait. If you want to affect the translations then E-MAIL them and encourage them to do more.Unfortunately for you diehard fans, if you ever watch it on Cartoon Network it is very edited and cut-up because of it's TV-Y7 rating. Hopefully they'll release unedited english versions of it but you can go to auctions and buy Japanese versions that are unedited but are subtitled only in english and have Japanese speaking characters.(Which I personaly think have some cool voices!) If you have any interesting info. then E-Mail it to me and ANY corrections about ANYTHING on my website, which I'm sure there are plently, then please tell me so I can fix them. OUTTIE!