List of Dragon Ball episodes (series)

"Dragon Ball" is the first in a trio anime adaptations of the highly popular "Dragon Ball" manga series by Akira Toriyama. Produced by Toei Animation, the anime series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on February 26, 1986 and ran until April 12, 1989. Spanning 153 episodes, it covers the first 16 volumes of the 42 volume manga series. [cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=243|title=Dragon Ball (TV)|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2008-06-03] It is followed by "Dragon Ball Z", which covers the remaining manga volumes, and "Dragon Ball GT", the plot of which was created solely for the anime.

Harmony Gold USA licensed the series for an English language release in North America in the late 80s. In the their voice dub of the series, Harmony renamed almost all of the characters, with some names appearing very odd, such as the central character Son Goku being renamed to "Zero" and the character Korin's name changed to "Whiskers the Wonder Cat". This dub version was ill-received and was quickly canceled.Fact|date=July 2008

In 1995, Funimation Entertainment acquired the full license for the series for both broadcast and distribution in North America. Funimation initially had BLT Productions create the English voice track for the series and the series was edited for content. Thirteen episodes aired in syndication before Funimation canceled the project due to low ratings, switching to the sequel anime series "Dragon Ball Z", which was more action oriented. Fact|date=July 2008 In March 2001, Funimation announced the return of "Dragon Ball" to American television, featuring a new English audio track produced in house and less editing.cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-03-09/rough-air-date-for-dragonball |title=Rough Air Date for Dragon Ball |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2001-03-09 |accessdate=2008-07-19 ] [cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-05-02/dragonball-on-cn-debut-date-confirmed |title=Dragon Ball on CN debut date confirmed |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2001-05-02 |accessdate=2008-07-19 ] The redubbed episodes ran on Cartoon Network from August 2001 [cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-21/dragonball-re-dub |title=DragonBall Re-dub |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2001-08-21 |accessdate=2008-07-19 ] to December 2003. Funimation also broadcast the series on Colours TV and their own Funimation Channel starting in 2006. [cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-11-12/dragon-ball-returns-to-us-tv |title=Dragon Ball Returns to US TV |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2006-11-12 |accessdate=2008-07-19 ] Funimation began releasing the uncut episodes to Region 1 DVD box sets in March 18, 2003. Ech box set, spanning an entire saga of the series, included the English dub track and the original Japanese audio track with optional English subtitles. The Emperor Pilaf Saga, however, has not been released to DVD, due it still being licensed for distribution by Lionsgate.

"Dragon Ball" uses two pieces of theme music for the entire series. '"Makafushigi Adventure!" by Hiroki Takahashi is used for the series opening theme and Ushio Hashimoto's "Romantic Ageru Yo" is used for the ending theme.

Episode listing

Emperor Pilaf saga

General Blue saga

Tien Shinhan saga

DVD releases

North America

Funimation Entertainment began releasing "Dragon Ball" to DVD Funimation originally began releasing "Dragon Ball" in "Ultimate Uncut" DVD releases

In 2006, FUNimation canceled the "Ultimate Uncut" DVD releases and moved to remaster all 291 episodes of "Dragon Ball Z" on DVD season boxsets. These contain remastered footage in widescreen format and also the choice between the English dialogue with either the American BGM or the original Japanese BGM. Also some of the FUNimation voice cast re-dubbed themselves in the episodes that they originally started from in order to keep consistency with the new dub. Some of the current voice actors, who were not present during the dubbing of these early episodes, have also re-dubbed themselves over the old voices. In 2007, Season 1 (39 episodes) was released on 6 February, Season 2 (35 episodes) was released on 25 May, and Season 3 (33 episodes) was released on 18 September. In 2008, Season 4 (32 episodes) was released on 19 February, as well as the two "DBZ" specials in a remastered form, Season 5 (26 episodes) was released on 27 May, as well as the first two "DBZ" movies in a remastered form, and Season 6 and the third and fourth movies will be released on September 16, 2008. Season 7 and the fifth and sixth movies will be released on November 11, 2008. Dragon Ball GT Season 1 will also be released on November 11, 2008.

Funimation plans on releasing box sets of Dragon Ball when Lionsgate's license of the first movie and 13 episodes expires in 2010.

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