Dragon Ball Z

「僕達は天使だった」「Boku-tachi ha Tenshi Datta」 「We Were Angels」 (Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Osamu Tozuka, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama). In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, the prophecy of 1999 was used as the ressurection of Dracula and added that all born of the day of Dracula's demise are "Dark Candidates" meaning that that they'll be next in line to be Dark Lord. 「でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー!」 「Detekoi Tobikiri ZENKAI Power!」 「Come Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!」 (Lyrics: Toshihisa Arakawa, Music: Takeshi Ike, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: MANNA). In Scott Adams's comic strip Dilbert, "Nostradogbert" is a pseudonym of Dogbert. Rock the Dragon DBZ Theme DBZ Uncut Theme Eternal Sacrific - Tendril (Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan theme song). In the DC Comics Universe, Nostradamus was an ancestor of Zatara and Zatanna. 「WE GOTTA POWER」 (Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music & Arrangement: Keiju Ishikawa, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama). A Phantom story from 1983 by Ulf Granberg and Jaime Vallvé featured an appearance by Nostradamus.

「CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA」 (Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music: Chiho Kiyooka, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama). The story was made by Massimo Marconi and Massimo De Vita.
. The boy of course became Nostradamus and the ripped pages from books explained his visions of the future. You can see the episode numbering given on the Uncut DVD releases, with the correct episode numbering listed beside it in brackets. The boy had to go back to his own time and his memory of the future was erased, but before that he grabbed pieces of books. Below is a list of every uncut DVD released (and too be released) by FUNimation. In an Italian Mickey Mouse story, Mickey and Goofy travel back in time and by accident a young boy followed them back to the present.

It is still unknown whether FUNimation will re-release all the DVDs with the correct episode and volume numbering but it is unlikely. It is composed by Tonci Huljic. Most of the old uncut DVDs by FUNimation (Gi'nyu Saga and up) do not have volume numbers and if they do, the numbers are inaccurate. Maksim, the cross-over piano player, plays a song entitled Nostradamus on his third CD. Because of Saban's cuts, all FUNimation released uncut DVDs have incorrect episode and volume numbering. Rapper Nas referred to himself as Nastradamus. This episode was released as a "Bonus" episode on the Frieza - Transformation DVD. English singer/songwriter Al Stewart wrote a song called "Nostradamus", concerning the prophecies, for his 1973 album Past, Present, and Future.

FUNimation later cut one in the Freeza saga as well (Episode 80, Piccolo the Super-Namek). In 2005, Dutch band Kayak released a rock opera called Nostradamus - Fate of Man. 1-67), 14 episodes worth of scenes were cut. And in 1999, he set what was thought by some to be Nostradamus's prediction of the end of the world for soprano and chamber ensemble in The Final Prophecy. FUNimation dubbed the first release of DVDs which consisted of episodes 1-53 (jap. Composer Robert Steadman has twice used Nostradamus' prophecies in pieces of music: in the 1987's quatrains by Nostradamus were juxtaposed with the Latin Requiem Mass text and poems on environmental issues. The original Japanese episodes totaled to 291. Nostradamus has also been parodied on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show as Negrodamus.

The original dubs of the movies have the original music as well as scripts that are closer to the original. In the science fiction series First Wave, the protagonists use the quatrains of Nostradamus to fight back against an alien invasion. FUNimation is also re-releasing the first 3 movies as Ultimate Uncut Editions, but the original dubs were actually more uncut. The television series Alias prominently features the character Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Nostradamus-like prophet. Recently, Funimation has begun to re-release the first 67 episodes in uncut form. None of them can be regarded as factual or reliable. Movies 4-12 are also uncut and have been released by Funimation. He is the subject of many films and videos, including:.

Starting with episode 68 (The Ginyu Saga), FUNimation has released all DVDs uncut. To verify the authenticity of a purported Nostradamus quatrain, compare the identifying number (e.g.: C1, Q25 or 'I.25' means Century 1, Quatrain 25) against an authoritative version of Nostradamus' works, which will probably also contain the original old French – or click on the appropriate External Links below to see facsimiles of the originals. If you want the uncut version which contains extra footage, blood, and some profanity, as well as Japanese audio, you're going to want to purchase the uncut DVDs by FUNimation. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war". If you wish to own every episode of Dragon Ball Z right now on DVD, this can be done with the edited version. The fifth line was added by an anonymous Internet user, completely ignoring the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. Originally, the edited versions were aired on TV and were the first DVDs to be produced by Geneon [Pioneer]. For example, the phrases "City of God" (why is New York City the City of God?), "great thunder" (this could apply to just about any disaster), "Two brothers" (many things come in pairs), and "the great leader will succumb" are so ambiguous as to be meaningless.

These releases are the uncut and edited versions. Ironically enough, the research paper included this poem as an illustrative example of how the validity of prophecies is often exaggerated. Dragon Ball Z has seen 2 types of DVD releases. As it turns out, the first four lines were indeed written before the attacks, but by a Canadian graduate student named Neil Marshall as part of a research paper in 1997. Recently, the official Dragon Ball Z website and FOX Studios have confirmed that they have no current plans for a Dragon Ball Z live action movie. Meanwhile the following spoof text was already being circulated on the Internet, along with many more elaborate variants (one of them signed 'Nostradamus 1654' – when he would, of course, have been just 150 years old!):. The movie was considered to have been in development, though no director had signed on and no casting had taken place, and there was no scheduled release date for the film. Thus, given that Arethusa was the classical nymph of springs and rivers, with a well-known 'spring of Arethusa' still visible today in the Sicilian port of Syracuse, the case for a '9/11' interpretation was evidently unfounded.

In early 2004, production was halted, but in June 2004, screenwriter Ben Ramsey (The Big Hit) signed on to adapt Dragon Ball Z for the big screen. For 968, similarly, Leo Marsicanus had reported in the same annals that ‘Mount Vesuvius exploded into flames and sent out huge quantities of sticky, sulfurous matter that formed a river rushing down to the sea’. Official news about the movie was primarily relayed through the official DBZ website or via the Internet Movie Database. 40-41) and his colleagues suggested that it applied particularly to the Annales Cassini's report of its lava eruption of 1036, at a time when the Lombards of Capua and the Byzantine dukes of Naples were constantly at war over the city prior to the decisive intervention of the Normans. Several fan sites were created for the movie, though few had any verifiable information about the movie. Subsequent investigation by Lemesurier ([3], pp. Magazines like Beckett Dragonball Z Collector as well as the official DBZ website began to write surveys and polls soliciting fan input about casting for the live action movie. 170) had already revealed (bearing in mind that, in French, faire la guerre aux rochers, or 'to make war on the rocks', simply means 'to struggle fruitlessly') that the reference was probably to Naples and its nearby volcano.

Online forums were created for the express purpose of relaying rumors and "insider information" about the live action movie. Once again, however, rather more sober investigation by Brind'Amour ([2, p. This created a furor in the online fan community. Here, once again, the cité neufve was claimed to be New York; au tour de had to refer to the Twin Towers (even though, in French, the word tour in the masculine – as it is here – has absolutely nothing to do with towers); the Deux grands rochiers had to be the Twin Towers themselves; and Arethusa was (naturally!) an anagram of 'the USA'. In 2002, a rumor surfaced on the internet claiming that 20th Century Fox had acquired the rights to make a live action Dragon Ball Z motion picture. or, in a possible English translation:. Majin-Boo Saga:. Perhaps in frustration, the searchers now turned to quatrain I.87, which in the original 1555 edition (Albi copy) ran:.

Cell Saga:. – which is indeed the latitude of Naples. Freeza Saga:. In this case, the first expression may simply be a version of. Saiyan Saga:. 246-7; but compare Clébert) suggests that the verse is merely an undated projection into the future of the capture of Naples by the Normans in 1139 during a year marked by a notably violent eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius that is recorded in the contemporary Annales Cassini. For example, during the Freeza Saga, there is a flashback showing that Vegeta, Raditz and Nappa were already aware that Freeza destroyed their home planet long before the events in DBZ took place even though the series showed that Vegeta was not aware until Dodoria told him on Planet Namek. Lemesurier ([3], pp.

They have also been known to contradict the manga and often create new plot holes. After the factual nature of these claims was widely denied, some suggested instead that the first line might refer to the actual angle at which one of the hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Center (which seemed unlikely, even if the rest had fitted). Garlic Junior's return from the Return my Gohan!! (Dead Zone) movie between the Freeza Saga and Trunks arc (pre-Cell Saga) are both good examples of this). 'Five and forty degrees' was said to be the latitude of New York City (this being incorrect in itself), or was interpreted as '40.5 degrees' (even though the decimal point had not yet come into use in the Europe of Nostradamus' day); the 'New City' was claimed to be New York (even though Nostradamus refers in this way to various 'New Cities' whose names, unlike 'New York', literally mean 'New City', and especially Naples – from Greek Neapolis, 'new city'); and most of the attempts to fit in the 'Normans' seemed contrived at best. As the anime series was forced to expand 12 pages of manga text into 20 minutes of animation footage, these changes were introduced to kill time or to allow the (anime) writers to explore some other aspect of the series' universe (the Anoyo-ichi Budōkai (Afterlife tournament) between the Cell Saga and Majin Buu Saga and the Garlic Junior arc, a.k.a. 145-6 under Sources). Filler doesn't come only in the form of side stories, though; sometimes it's as simple as adding some extra attacks into a fight. The various ways in which the enthusiasts chose to interpret the text, however, were almost universally panned by experts on the subject (compare the relevant sections of the Snopes and Lemesurier websites listed under External Links below, and see Gruber p.419 and Lemesurier [2] pp.

The company behind the anime, Toei Animation, would occasionally make up their own little side stories to either further explain things, or simply to waste time. With instant evidently a version of the Latin instanter ('violently, vehemently'), a reasonable English translation would thus appear to be:. Filler is used to pad out the series for many reasons; in the case of Dragon Ball Z, more often than not, it was because the anime was running alongside the manga, and there was no way for the anime to run ahead of the manga (since Toriyama was still writing it, at the same time). The nearest that they could come up with was quatrain VI.97, which in the original 1557 edition ran:. Strangely, these episodes have aired at a TV-PG rating, though this is probably just a mistake due to the sudden schedule change. In response, Nostradamus enthusiasts started searching for a Nostradamus quatrain that could be said to have done so. In response to this controversy, Cartoon Network officially removed the uncut version from their schedule on January 21, 2006 and replaced it with the original Saban-edited version from 1996, which heavily altered the show's content for young children. Almost as soon as the event had happened, the relevant Internet sites were deluged with enquiries into whether Nostradamus had predicted the event.

Airing these episodes in the 7:30PM timeslot on Saturday nights makes this easier for young kids to watch them, as opposed to airing them at 10:30PM during the week, when most children are asleep. As mentioned above, this applied most recently to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City. It also has a scene which shows one of Princess Snake's servents shooting herself in the head, but she doesn't die). Certainly, there is a persistent tendency to claim that 'Nostradamus predicted whatever has just happened'. While there weren't many complaints about earlier episodes, there was controversy from parents over episodes such as Gohan Goes Bananas (which shows Gohan transforming into an Oozaru and then back into a boy, during which his penis and testicles are shown) and Princess Snake (which shows Goku's bare buttocks while excercising in the spa and after he comes out. Because of this, it has been claimed that Nostradamus is "100% accurate at predicting events after they happen", while the seer has acquired even more disrepute than he possibly deserves. After Cartoon Network completed its airing of the uncut version on weeknights at 10:30PM EST, it was put on Toonami on Saturdays at 7:30PM EST. Not surprisingly, then, detractors see such 'edited' predictions as examples of vaticinium ex eventu, retroactive clairvoyance and selective thinking, which find non-existent patterns in ambiguous statements.

Even missing episodes that were totally left out by FUNimation are now shown, such as young Gohan helping out a robot that refused to help him as an act of teaching him to take care of himself, and eventually saved his life before he shut down and "died". This linguistic sleight of hand is particularly easy to carry out when the would-be commentator knows no French to start with, especially in its 16th-century form – to say nothing of French geography. A comedic scene that is reintroduced is when Gokū accidentally pulls out a beer from the fridge and asking "Hey what’s this doing in here?" puts the beer back and pulls out a healthy sports drink. Nostradamus does not in fact mention any of the above specifically, not even Hitler: the name Hister, as he himself explains in his Presage for 1554, is merely the classical name for the Lower Danube, while Pau, Nay, Loron – often claimed to be an anagram of 'Napaulon Roy'– evidently refers simply to three neighboring towns in south-western France close to the seer's one-time home territory. The Saibaimen are also more sadistic. The tradition goes right back to Nostradamus' own day, and naturally does the seer himself no favors. Other new scenes include the showing of Gohan's lower central area (albeit not detailed) and Gokū's bare butt while bathing at Princess Snake's palace. Indeed, they regularly make similar claims regarding each new world crisis as it comes along, for the most part shamelessly twisting either the words or the events to fit (see specific examples below).

In the new release though, she is constantly following Tien, because she is in love with him. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Since Launch was not tough and her scenes included bank robbing, guns and alcohol, they decided to remove her. All of them are presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world – a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus. Other characters such as Korin, Piccolo, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Yajirobe had also not been seen in those 13 episodes, but since they were important to the plot, they were not cut. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. Scenes featuring Lunch also are restored; she was edited out of 4 episodes of the older version, because at the time they only dubbed the first 13 episodes of Dragon Ball, in which she did not appear. Some quatrains cover these in over-all terms; others concern a single person or small group of persons.

Scenes containing graphic violence, like Vegeta blowing up a Saibaiman, Gokū shredding his hand on his training rope while on his way to Planet Namek, Vegeta slamming his arm clean through Zarbon's stomach, Vegeta decapitating Guldo and destroying his still-speaking disembodied head or Gohan getting severly beaten by Recoome are restored. The disasters include plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, battles and many other related themes. Mild use of profanity is also heard, like Jeice saying "The crazy bastard killed Guldo!" and Vegeta shouting "Damn you, Kakarrot!" and numerous utterances of the words dammit, bastard and hell. The bulk of the quatrains deal with disasters of various sorts. References to death and killing can be heard and Muten Rōshi's lecherous attempts on Bulma are shown at their fullest, too. No fewer than five of the planets were in the same signs on both occasions. Most importantly, all fighting scenes are totally uncut, but several other differences can be seen, like foamy water now actually being beer, blood being red again (whereas the edited version showed purple) and shots of characters sticking up their middle fingers being left in. On the basis of Nostradamus's by-now well known technique of projecting past events into the future, Lemesurier [3] suggests that X.72 therefore refers back to the restoration to health of the captive Francis I of France (who was Duke of Angoulême) following a surprise visit to his cell by his host, the then Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1525.

In 2005, Cartoon Network started showing the uncut and unedited version of the first two seasons of Dragon Ball Z, similar to the Japanese original, although the English version features a darker opening theme, whereas the original OP themes were cheerful in tone and had bright, colorful animations. The phrase d'effraieur (of terror) in fact occurs nowhere in the original printing, which merely uses the word deffraieur (defraying, hosting). Since the series is a continuing story, Cartoon Network held off the rest of the 5th season until a few months later. The well-known prophecy that "a great and terrifying leader would come out of the sky" in 1999 and 7 months "to resuscitate the great King from Angoumois" has been much over-stated. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, CN cut an episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan saves a plane from crashing, then later has to deal with a burning skyscraper office building, due to the obvious parallel imagery. This is similar to the Preterite interpretation of the Book of Revelation; John (the Divine) intended to write only about contemporary events, but over time his writings became seen as prophecies. Combined with a widely criticized quality of voice acting, many feel that the English version of Dragon Ball Z almost seems like an entirely different show than the original, and this has led many familiar with the Japanese series to dislike FUNimation's version. Some scholars believe that Nostradamus wrote not to be a prophet, but to comment on events that were happening in his own time, writing in his elusive way – using highly metaphorical and cryptic language – in order to avoid persecution.

To an equal extent, many fans who object to censoring have taken issue with changes that are not seen as necessary, such as extraneous dialogue not found in the original, dubbing that sways the English version in its own creative direction (example: the TV audience booing Gokū's appearance during the dubbed Cell Saga while cheering him in the Japanese series), and the replacement of the original musical score. (For Dylan see Masters Of War , As I Went Out One Morning, Gates Of Eden, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), etc.). The full scene is viewable by purchase of the Frieza-Transformation (Uncut version) VHS or DVD. A good demonstration of this flexible predicting is to take lyrics written by modern songwriters (e.g., Bob Dylan) and show that they are equally "prophetic". All blood was removed from the already edited version. It has been stated, probably correctly, that no Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred beyond a very general level (e.g., a fire will occur, a war will start). Non-graphic scenes such as the beginning (Krillin getting stabbed) and the end (Krillin getting thrown into the water) were kept in. Skeptics of Nostradamus state that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who shoehorn his words into events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process known as "retroactive clairvoyance".

A very violent scene with the extended version of Freeza's impalement of Krillin during the Freeza saga was edited out on CN and merged with the other two episodes. This may be due partly to popular unease about the future, partly to people's desire to see their lives in some kind of over-all cosmic perspective and so to give meaning to them – but above all, possibly, to their vagueness and lack of dating, which enables them to be wheeled out after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claimed as 'hits'. Satan" was changed to "Hercule" in the edited dub. Indeed, they have seldom, if ever, been out of print. The character "Mr. Since his death, only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. The distribution of the redubs started in April 2005. It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later, Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not in fact deciphered until the advent of Champollion in the 19th century.

They also redubbed the first three movies that were also dubbed by the Ocean Group voice actors but were distributed by Pioneer. A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat. In 2003, FUNimation decided to redub the first two sagas of Dragon Ball Z, to remove the problems that were caused from their previous partnership with Saban. The same book also describes the preparation of cosmetics. Subsequent DVD and VHS releases of those episodes were not censored in any way. One was an alleged "translation" of Galen, and in his so-called Traité des fardemens (basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague – none of which (not even the bloodletting) apparently worked. Some censoring, of nudity, however, was still unavoidable. We know that he wrote at least two books on medical science.

FUNimation did the dubbing on their own this time around with their own voice actors, meeting again with mostly critical reactions. Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer, too. Starting with the Gi'nyu (3rd US season) on Cartoon Network, censorship was reduced due to fewer restrictions on cable programming. See also here. One of the biggest points raised by critics of the editing of violence is that the removal of wounds, blood, and death from a show ultimately about fighting will encourage violence without showing any of the consequences. Often he published two or even three in a single year, entitled either Almanachs (detailed predictions), Prognostications or Presages (more generalized predictions). These changes left many fans irate, and some Dragon Ball purists refuse to watch the American version of the show. The Almanacs - By far the most popular of his works, these were published annually from 1550 until his death.

This amount of editing led to characters' speech not matching what occurred on screen, unrealistic and twisted plots with major holes, and obviously altered images. Given printing practices at the time, no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same. The most infamous dialogue edits would be the characters saying "I will send you to another dimension," rather than "I will kill you", and another where after a villian destroys a helicopter, one of the characters exclaims "It's okay, I can see their parachutes!" when in the original version the crew died with the vehicle. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but nowadays only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. The dialogue was changed, removing references to Heaven, Hell, God, and death. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. Dead bodies lingering on the battlefield during ongoing fights were not shown, implying they were taken away or vaporized altogether. The first edition was published in 1555.

Many violent scenes were left on the cutting room floor and others had wounds digitally removed or blood re-colored as spit. The Prophecies - In this book he collected his major, long-term divinations. For example, FUNimation digitally removed the cigarette from one character's mouth, and digitally pasted the word ROOT above a sign that said BEER to make it say "ROOT BEER." Clear glasses with beer were recolored blue to create frothy mugs of water. In his dedication to King Henri II Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though". The series underwent many changes, with the removal of nudity and partial nudity, references to sex, alcohol, and smoking. The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on an uninformed reading of his first two verses (see above), which merely liken his own efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. When it was marketed in the US, the distribution company FUNimation alongside with Saban decided to initially focus exclusively on the young children's market, because the anime market was still small compared to the much larger children's cartoon market. His sole description of this process is contained in letter 41 of his collected Latin correspondence, as republished by Jean Dupèbe and translated by Lemesurier [2].

Dragon Ball Z was marketed to appeal to a wide range of viewers from all ages, and contains crude humor and occasional excesses of violence which are commonly seen as inappropriate for younger audiences by American standards. ritually 'sleeping on it'). One of the biggest criticisms of the series in North America from fans is the extensive amount of editing and other changes it faced, in order to be broadcast. Given that his methodology, clearly, was mainly literary, it is doubtful whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation (i.e. Because of inconsistencies both in the original manga and the anime series, and the common acceptance of the anime as canon, much debate is had by the younger fanbase as to the relative strength (or power levels, speaking in series terms) of the various characters. The fact that they reportedly burned with an unnaturally brilliant flame suggests, however, that some of them were manuscripts on vellum, which was routinely treated with saltpeter. Many of these connections are a deliberate attempt by Akira Toriyama to pay homage to the Western superhero archetype, just as the earlier Dragon Ball series paid homage to Chinese folk archetypes. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire.

The main character of Dragon Ball Z, Son Gokū, is often compared to the DC Comics hero Superman, due to their outward similarities in origins (as redefined in DBZ) and abilities. Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased (in the second case almost literally) in his first two verses. While contributing much to the shōnen genre in Japan, some feel Dragon Ball Z has created a stereotype associated with anime at large in the West amongst those outside the anime community. Further material (see Brind'Amour, Gruber, Lemesurier [2] and [3]) was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus, which included extracts from Michael Psellus's De daemonibus and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum..." (Concerning the mysteries of Egypt...), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th-century neo-Platonist. In response, fans of Dragon Ball Z have countered that many who criticize the series sound as though they don't know it as well as they'd like to think. Any criticism of Nostradamus for claiming to be a prophet, in other words, would have been for doing what he never claimed to be doing in the first place. These range from simple lack of interest to downright vocal hatred of the series as overrated and superficial. Michel Nostradamus' – which, except in a few cases, they weren't, other than in the manner of their editing, expression and re-application to the future).

Due to its length, associated varying production quality, creative devices, and sometimes overenthusiastic young fanbase, anime fandom at large has mixed reactions to the series. Michel Nostradamus' – which is precisely what they were – as 'The Prophecies of M. Dragon Ball Z was (and largely still is) the most popular shōnen anime series in the worldwide. (which, in French, as easily means 'The Prophecies, by M. There also is a change from the rather myth-oriented theme to a more science fiction oriented one, interpreting several facts from a very different point of view. This last is presumably why he entitled his book. The overall mood changes significantly from the one of Dragon Ball, as tournaments and personal vendettas are replaced by wars against alien villains threatening earth in its whole, changing the focus to violent battles and the feeling of a power struggle. In translation:.

The series progresses dramatically throughout its entire run. Nostradamus, it should be remembered, denied in writing on several occasions that he was a prophet on his own account. Many of the main characters die, are resurrected, get married and/or have children. Only in the 17th century did people start to be surprised by the fact that much of his output was evidently based on earlier and often classical originals – which was no doubt why, according to the early commentator Théophile de Garencières, his Prophecies started to be used as a classroom-reader at that time. As the series progresses, Son Gokū, his son, Son Gohan, and their companions age, get immensely stronger and fight increasingly more powerful and sinister villains. Copying from the classics in particular, often without acknowledgement, and preferably from memory, was all the rage. After many years, Gokū comes face to face with Freeza and his wrath, in a decisive fight of good against evil. The whole Renaissance was based on the idea.

(See Frieza Family Tree) Freeza killed Gokū's father Bardock ( or in the manga Burdock) as well as King Vegeta when he attacked and obliterated the entire Saiyan planet from existence. Meanwhile, if Nostradamus' many competitors – and he had many – never accused him of copying from it, it was because copying and/or paraphrasing, far from being regarded (as it is today) as mere plagiarism, was regarded at the time as what all good, educated people should do anyway. Zarbon, Freeza's top henchman, had requested that the best solution would have been the complete annihilation and extinction of the Saiyan race, thus triggering Freeza's wrath. See selected Engilsh translations from it here. Gokū later learns that his race was destroyed by the one and only Master Freeza, the planet-conquering maniacal onslaught of an alien. The Mirabilis liber, (some of the predictions of which had already lapsed by the time Nostradamus started writing) was not translated into French until 1831 – and this mainly for scholarly and antiquarian reasons at a time when knowledge of Latin was beginning to die out. This, however, is the trigger for events of even greater magnitude to happen, making Gokū and his friends the foremost defenders of Earth, mankind and ultimately the whole universe. Nostradamus was, in effect, one of the first to present its prophecies (and others) openly in the French vernacular – as was also happening to the Bible at the time – which is no doubt why he has retained all the credit for them.

When he refuses to reassume this task, Raditz challenges him to a lethal battle in which Gokū sacrifices himself to beat his brother (with the prospect of resurrection by the Dragon Balls). The obvious question – why the Mirabilis liber did not sustain its influence in the way that Nostadamus’ writings did – is explained mainly by the fact that the book (like the Bible) was mostly in Latin and in Gothic script and, to make matters even more complicated for the general reader, contained many abstruse scholastic abbreviations. After a visit from his previously unknown brother Raditz, he discovers that he belongs to an alien race called Saiya-jin or Saiyan and that his kind once sent him to Earth to destroy it. The book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half-a-dozen editions (see Links below for facsimiles and translations). Son Gokū, the protagonist, is an extremely powerful but somewhat naïve martial artist. His major prophetic source was evidently the Mirabilis liber of 1522 (Brind'Amour, Lemesurier [2] and [3]), which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface contains no fewer than 24 biblical quotations, all but two of them in exactly the same order as Savonarola). . (Refer to the seminal analysis of these charts by Brind'Amour, 1993, under Sources, and compare Gruber's comprehensive critique of Nostradamus’ horoscope for Crown Prince Rudolph Maximilian).

Toriyama's humor/parody manga Neko Majin Z features several concepts introduced in Dragon Ball Z (several Dragon Ball Z characters even make various appearances), but that manga is designed as a parody and not a true continuation of the series. Even the planetary tables, already published by professional astrologers, on which he based the birth-charts that he was unable to avoid preparing himself are easily identifiable by their detailed figures, even where (as is usually the case) he gets some of them wrong. This series is not based on a manga by Akira Toriyama. Many of his broader astrological references, by contrast, are taken almost word-for-word from the Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of 1549/50 by Richard Roussat. After Dragon Ball Z, the story of Son Gokū and friends continues in the anime-only series Dragon Ball GT. His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and a range of other classical historians, as well as from the chronicles of medieval authors such as Villehardouin and Froissart. It aired in the UK, albeit with the same dubbing problem, on Cartoon Network, premiering on March 6, 2000 and running until 2002, with the final few episodes being shown on CNX starting from October 14, 2002, before that channel relaunched as Toonami, on which it was repeated daily. Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus' Preface, and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, though rather more in his famously baffling dedicatory Letter to King Henri II.

In the U.S., the series ran between 1996 and 2003, though not always on the same networks or with continuity of dubbing. It is thanks to this that his work contains so many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Marius, Nero, Hannibal and so on, as well as descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky". The anime first premiered in Japan on April 18, 1989 (on Fuji TV) at 7:00 PM and ended on January 31, 1996. Recent research (Brind'Amour [1], Prévost, Gruber, Lemesurier [2] and [3]) has suggested that most of his prophetic work was in fact based on paraphrasing collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies (mainly Bible-based – the end of the world was expected at the time to occur in either 1800 or 1887, or possibly in 2242, depending on the system adopted) and supplementing their insights by projecting known historical events and identifiable anthologies of omen-reports into the future with the aid of comparative horoscopy. Originally, creator Akira Toriyama had planned to end the series after the Freeza Saga, but was made a significant offer to keep it going due to the story's continued value. Nostradamus claimed to base his predictions on judicial astrology – the assessment of the 'astrological quality' of expected future events – but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for his incompetence and for assuming that 'comparative horoscopy' (comparison of future planetary configurations with the astrology of known past events) could predict the actual events themselves. The separation between the series is also significant as the latter series takes on a more dramatic and serious tone. He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie'), but re-interred in the Collégiale St-Laurent at the French Revolution, where his tomb remains to this day.

While the original Dragon Ball anime followed Gokū through childhood into adulthood, Dragon Ball Z is a continuation of his adulthood life. On the evening of July 1 he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive by sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor between his bed and a makeshift bench. The series follows the adventures of the adult Son Gokū who, along with his companions, defends the earth against assorted villains. This was followed by a much shorter codicil. The series is a close adaptation of the second half of the Dragon Ball manga (in the United States, the manga's second half is also titled Dragon Ball Z to prevent confusion), but also features characters, situations and backstories not present in the original. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3444 crowns (around $300,000 today) – minus a few debts – to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages.
Dragon Ball Z is a very long-running sequel to the popular anime Dragon Ball. By 1566 Nostradamus' gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into dropsy.

Dragon Ball Z: Sagas for the PS2, GC, and Xbox. His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree. Dragon Ball Z: Collectible Card Game for the GBA. In fact, his relations with the Church as a prophet and healer were always excellent. Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butoden. Some biographical accounts of Nostradamus' life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell under this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them. Dragon Ball Z Legends. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded, but by the time of his death in 1566, Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to the King.

Dragon Ball Z Legends. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them, and to draw up horoscopes for her children. The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Part 2. Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus' greatest admirers. The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Part 1. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite thought his quatrains were spiritually inspired prophecies. Dragon Ball Z: Gokū Gekitō Den (1995). The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Propheties ('The Prophecies'), received a mixed reaction when they were published.

Dragon Ball Z: Gokū Hishō Den (1994). For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments, the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh 'Century', or book of 100 verses, have not survived into any extant edition. Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Son Gokū Densetsu (Three out of the seven levels) (1994). Feeling vulnerable to religious fanatics, however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianized" syntax, word games and a mixture of languages such as Provençal, Greek, Latin and Italian. Dragon Ball Z: Buyū Retsuden (1994). He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand quatrains, which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension (1996). It was mainly in reaction to the almanacs that nobility and other prominent persons from far and wide soon started asking for horoscopes and advice from him, though he generally expected them to supply the birth-charts on which the horoscopes would be based.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokū Den 2 (The last two thirds of the game) (1995). Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies (most of them, in the event, failed predictions – see Chevignard and Lemesurier [2] under Sources), as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on January 1 (and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March). Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokū Den (1995). He was so encouraged by its success that he decided to write one or more annually. Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden 3 (1994). Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name to 'Nostradamus'. Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden 2 (1993). After a further visit to Italy, Nostredame began to move away from medicine and towards the occult.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden (1993). Parts of the network remain today: thanks to much larger supplementary canals, there is even a hydroelectric station in Salon itself. Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan Legend (1992). Between 1556 and 1567, Nostredame and his wife would in due course acquire a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project organized by Adam de Craponne to irrigate largely waterless Salon and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance. Dragon Ball Z Supplement: The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (1993). Finally, in 1547, he settled down in Salon-de-Provence in the house which is still there today, and where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde (nicknamed Gemelle, or 'Twinny') and eventually had six children – three daughters (Madeleine, Anne and Diane) and three sons (César, Charles and André). Dragon Ball Z: Barcode Battler (1992). On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague-outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence.

Dragon Ball Z 3: Resen Jinzōningen (1992). After their death he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy. Dragon Ball Z 2: Gekishin Freeza!! 1991). In 1534, however, his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. Dragon Ball Z: Kyosho! Saiyan (1990). There Nostredame married a woman whose name is still in dispute (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), but who bore him two children. Dragon Ball Z: Super Sonic Warriors 2 (Dragon Ball Z: Bukū Ressen). In 1531 he was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (Dragon Ball Z 2). After his expulsion, Nostredame continued working, presumably as an apothecary (though some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him 'Doctor'), and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that was widely believed (not least by himself) to protect against the plague. Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai (Dragon Ball Z). 25 of Lemesurier [2] under Sources) still exists in the faculty library. Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury. The hand-written expulsion document (BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87 – see facsimile on p. Dragon Ball Z: Bukū Tōgeki (Dragon Ball Z: Super Sonic Warriors). He was promptly expelled again shortly afterwards, though, when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, which was a 'manual' trade expressly banned by the university statutes.

Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine. Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular Trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic, rather than the later Quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy/astrology) he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors in the face of an outbreak of the plague. Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II (Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Gokū 2: International). It is known, however, that at the age of fifteen Nostredame entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku. Little is known about Nostredame's childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St-Rémy – which is vitiated by the equally persistent tradition that the latter died when the child was only one year old.

Dragon Ball Z: Sagas. His known siblings included Delphine, Jehan (c.1507-77), Pierre, Hector, Louis (b.1522), Bertrand, Jean and Antoine (b.1523). Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! (Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai Tenka-ichi). His adult religious leanings suggest, however, that his upbringing was devoutly Catholic. Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai 3 (Dragon Ball Z 3). While practice of the ancestral religion was apparently continued in secret, nobody knows whether this applied to Nostredame's family, or whether it still applied to him two generations later. Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai 2 (Dragon Ball Z 2). The names of Nostredame's known forebears seem to reflect this.

Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai (Dragon Ball Z). In this, he was merely following the example of thousands of others, thanks to increasing official French persecution of Jews, many of whom were the descendants of former refugees from Spain, where they were known as the Marranos. Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors (Dragon Ball Z: Densetsu no Chou Senshi-tachi). The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism circa 1455, taking the Christian name 'Pierre' and the surname 'Nostredame' (the latter apparently from the saint's-day on which his conversion was solemnized). Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout. Born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (see map) in the south of France in December 1503 (his claimed birthplace still exists), Michel de Nostredame was one of at least eight children of Reynière de St-Rémy and grain dealer Jaume de Nostredame, who was also a prosperous home-grown notary. Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22. .

Dragon Ball Z: Legends. Interest in the work of this prominent figure of the French Renaissance is still considerable, especially in the media and in popular culture. Episodes 200~291. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, which consists of one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called 'Centuries'. Episodes 1~199. Nostradamus, (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566) born Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world's most famous authors of prophecies. Episodes 200~291. Nostradamus at The Internet Movie Database (1994) Depicts Nostradamus's rise in influence, because of success in treating plague and his predictions, culminating in his appointment as court physician to Charles IX of France.

Version 3: episodes 118~199. Nostradamus at The Internet Movie Database (2000). Version 2: episodes 22~117. Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow at The Internet Movie Database (1981). Version 1: episodes 1~21. TV Special #2: The History of Trunks.

TV Special #1: Bardock: The Father of Goku. Movie #13: Dragonfist Explosion (FUNimation title unknown). Movie #12: Fusion Reborn (Not yet released, coming 3/28/2006). Movie #11: Bio-Broly.

Movie #10: Broly: Second Coming. Movie #9: Bojack Unbound. Movie #8: Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan. Movie #7: Super Android 13.

Movie #6: The Return of Cooler. Movie #5: Cooler's Revenge. Movie #4: Lord Slug. Movie #3: The Tree of Might (uncut version released on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD in November 1997).

Movie #2: World's Strongest (uncut version not yet released, coming ?????). Movie #1: Dead Zone. 91 Kid Buu - A New Beginning Eps #273-276 (Eps #288-291). Vol.

90 Kid Buu - The Price of Victory Eps #270-272 (Eps #285-287). Vol. 89 Kid Buu - Vegeta's Plea Eps #267-269 (Eps #282-284). Vol.

88 Kid Buu - Saiyan Pride Eps #264-266 (Eps #279-281). Vol. 87 Kid Buu - Regression Eps #261-263 (Eps #276-278). Vol.

86 Fusion - Internal Struggle Eps #257-260 (Eps #272-275). Vol. 85 Fusion - The Last Saiyaman Eps #254-256 (Eps #269-271). Vol.

84 Fusion - Hope Returns Eps #251-253 (Eps #266-268). Vol. 83 Fusion - Ambush Eps #248-250 (Eps #263-265). Vol.

82 Fusion - Losing Battle Eps #245-247 (Eps #260-262). Vol. 81 Fusion - Play for Time Eps #242-244 (Eps #257-259). Vol.

80 Fusion - Evil Buu Eps #239-241 (Eps #254-256). Vol. 79 Majin Buu - Emergence Eps #235-238 (Eps #250-253). Vol.

78 Majin Buu - A Hero's Farewell Eps #232-234 (Eps #247-249). Vol. 77 Majin Buu - Defiance Eps #229-231 (Eps #244-246). Vol.

76 Majin Buu - Tacticts Eps #226-228 (Eps #241-243). Vol. 75 Majin Buu - Revival Eps #223-225 (Eps #238-240). Vol.

74 Majin Buu - Attonment Eps #220-222 (Eps #235-237). Vol. 73 Majin Buu - The Hatching Eps #217-219 (Eps #232-234). Vol.

72 Babidi - Rivals Eps #214-216 (Eps #229-231). Vol. 71 Babidi - Dark Prince Returns Eps #211-213 (Eps #226-228). Vol.

70 Babidi - Battle Royale Eps #208-210 (Eps #223-225). Vol. 68 Babidi - Decent Eps #205-207 (Eps #220-222). Vol.

68 World Tournament - Blackout Eps #201-204 (Eps #216-219). Vol. 67 World Tournament - The Draw Eps #198-200 (Eps #213-215). Vol.

66 World Tournament - Junior Division Eps #195-197 (Eps #210-212). Vol. 65 Great Saiyaman - Crash Course Eps #192-194 (Eps #207-209). Vol.

64 Great Saiyaman - Declaration Eps #189-191 (Eps #204-206). Vol. 63 Great Saiyaman - Gohan's Secret Eps #186-188 (Eps #201-203). Vol.

62 Great Saiyaman - Final Round Eps #183-185 (Eps #198-200). Vol. 61 Great Saiyaman - Opening Ceremony Eps #180-182 (Eps #195-197). Vol.

60 Cell Games - Nightmares End Eps #176-179 (Eps #191-194). Vol. 59 Cell Games - Sacrifice Eps #172-175 (Eps #187-190). Vol.

58 Cell Games - Awakening Eps #169-171 (Eps #184-186). Vol. 57 Cell Games - Earth's Last Hope Eps #166-168 (Eps #181-183). Vol.

56 Cell Games - Surrender Eps #163-165 (Eps #178-280). Vol. 55 Cell Games - The Games Begin Eps #160-162 (Eps #175-177). Vol.

54 Cell Games - A Guardians Return Eps #157-159 (Eps #172-174). Vol. 53 Cell Games - A Moments Peace Eps #154-156 (Eps #169-171). Vol.

52 Cell Games - Ultimatum Eps #151-153 (Eps #166-168). Vol. 51 Perfect Cell - Unstoppable Eps #147-150 (Eps #162-165). Vol.

50 Perfect Cell - Perfection Eps #144-146 (Eps #159-161). Vol. 49 Perfect Cell - Temptation Eps #141-143 (Eps #156-158). Vol.

48 Perfect Cell - Hunt for 18 Eps #138-140 (Eps #153-155). Vol. 47 Imperfect Cell - 17's End Eps #134-137 (Eps #149-152). Vol.

46 Imperfect Cell - Race Against Time Eps #131-133 (Eps #146-148). Vol. 45 Imperfect Cell - Discovery Eps #128-130 (Eps #143-145). Vol.

44 Imperfect Cell - Encounter Eps #125-127 (Eps #140-142). Vol. 43 Androids - Invincible Eps #121-124 (Eps #137-139). Vol.

42 Androids - Assassins Eps #118-120 (Eps #133-136). Vol. Gero Eps #115-117 (Eps #130-134). 41 Androids - Dr.

Vol. 40 Androids - Invasion Eps #111-114 (Eps #126-129). Vol. 39 Trunks - Prelude to Terror Eps # 106-110) (Eps #121-125).

Vol. 38 Trunks - Mysterious Youth Eps # 103-105) (Eps #118-120). Vol. - Vanquished Eps #99-102 (Eps #114-117).

37 Garlic Jr. Vol. - Sacred Water Eps #96-98 (Eps #111-113). 36 Garlic Jr.

Vol. - Black Water Mist Eps #93-95 (Eps #108-110). 35 Garlic Jr. Vol.

34 Frieza - Namek's End Eps #90-92 (Eps #105-107). Vol. 33 Frieza - Fall of a Tyrant Eps #86-89 (Eps #101-104). Vol.

32 Frieza - Eleventh Hour Eps #82-85 (Eps #97-100). Vol. 31 Frieza - Super Saiyan Goku Eps #79-81 (Eps #94-96). Vol.

30 Frieza - Desperation Eps #76-78 (Eps #91-93). Vol. 29 Frieza - Clash Eps #73-75 (Eps #88-90). Vol.

28 Frieza - Death of a Prince Eps #70-72 (Eps #85-87). Vol. 27 Frieza - Revealed Eps #67-69) (Eps #82-84). Vol.

26 Frieza - Transformation Eps #64-66 + Bonus Episode (Eps #78-81). Vol. 25 Frieza - The Summoning Eps #61-63 (Eps #75-77). Vol.

24 Captain Ginyu - Double Cross Eps #57-60) (Eps #71-74). Vol. 23 Captain Ginyu - Assault Eps #54-56 (Eps #68-70). Vol.

22 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #64-67. Vol. 21 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #61-63. Vol.

20 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #58-60. Vol. 19 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #54-57. Vol.

18 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #51-53. Vol. 16 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #48-50. Vol.

15 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #45-47. Vol. 14 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #42-44. Vol.

13 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #39-41. Vol. 12 Namek - (Not yet released, coming ?????) Eps #36-38. Vol.

11 Vegeta Saga 2: ????? (Not yet released, coming ????? Eps #32-35. Vol. 10 Vegeta Saga 2: ????? (Not yet released, coming ????? Eps #28-31. Vol.

9 Vegeta Saga 2: Ultimate Sacrifice (Not yet released, coming 5/16/2006) Eps #25-27. Vol. 8 Vegeta Saga 2: Saiyan Invasion (Not yet released, coming 3/21/2006) Eps #22-24. Vol.

7 Vegeta Saga 1: Back From the Dead Eps #19-21. Vol. 6 Vegeta Saga 1: Doomed Heroes Eps #16-18. Vol.

5 Vegeta Saga 1: Goku Held Hostage Eps #13-15. Vol. 4 Vegeta Saga 1: Gohan's Trials Eps #10-12. Vol.

3 Vegeta Saga 1: Into the Wild Eps #7-9. Vol. 2 Vegeta Saga 1: Piccolo's Plan Eps #4-6. Vol.

1 Vegeta Saga 1: Saiyan Showdown Eps #1-3. Vol. The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (Video game footage). The History of Trunks.

Bardock - The Father of Goku. Resistance to Despair!! The Remaining Super-Warriors, Gohan and Trunks. A Lonesome, Final Battle: The Father of Z-Warrior Kakarrot, who Challenged Freeza. Dragonfist Explosion (FUNimation Title Unknown).

Fusion Rebirth. Bio-Broly. Broly: The Second Coming. Bojack Unbound.

Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan. Super Android 13!. Return of Cooler. Cooler's Revenge.

Lord Slug. The Tree of Might. The World's Strongest. Dead Zone.

Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Gokū Won't Do It, Who Will?. Fusion Reborn!! Gokū and Vegeta. Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win. The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors Can't Rest.

The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy. Burn Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle. Extreme Battle!! The Three Great Super Saiyans. Clash!! 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors.

Mightiest. The Incredible Mightiest vs. Super Saiyan Son Gokū. Super Deciding Battle for the Entire Planet Earth.

The World's Strongest Guy. Return my Gohan!!. The Kid Buu Saga (Episodes 275~290). The Fusion Saga (Episodes 253~274).

The Majin Buu Saga (Episodes 231~252). The Babidi Saga (Episodes 219~230). The World Tournament Saga (Episodes 209~218). The Great Saiyaman Saga (Episodes 194~208).

The Cell Games Saga (Episodes 165~193). The Perfect Cell Saga (Episodes 152~164). The Imperfect Cell Saga (Episodes 139~151). The Androids Saga (Episodes 125~138).

The Trunks Saga (Episodes 117~124). The Garlic Junior Saga (Episodes 107~116). The Frieza Saga (Episodes 75~106). The Captain Ginyu Saga (Episodes 68~74).

The Namek Saga. The Vegeta Saga (Formerly known as the Saiyan Saga). Majin-Buu Saga (Episodes 200~291); 30 June 1993 - 31 January 1996. Cell Saga (Episodes 126~199); 5 February 1992 - 23 June 1993.

Freeza Saga (Episodes 36~125); 14 February 1990 - 29 January 1992. Saiyan Saga (Episodes 1~35); 26 April 1989 - 7 February 1990.