Dragon Ball

Type: Media

As of November 2026, Dragon Ball has been mentioned in one podcast episode on GLOBAL NEWS PODCAST (Sep 2020). Mentioned as a pop-culture/media reference amid a stream of entertainment and product terms; no clear discussion thread is developed.

Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha. Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with elements of Hong Kong martial arts films. Dragon Ball characters also use a variety of East Asian martial arts