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Change your get BIG After years of training and adventure, Goku has become Earth's ultimate warrior. And his son, Gohan, shows even greater promise. But the stakes are increasing as even deadlier enemies threaten the planet. DRAGON BALL Z is the ultimate science fiction/martial arts manga. A Collection of Volumes 4 - 6! After saving Earth time and time again, Son Goku definitely deserves the peaceful life that he's been living with his wife and son. That all changes drastically one day when a mysterious visitor appears and reveals that Goku is actually a Saiyan—a member of the most powerful race in the universe! Saiyan or not, Goku continues to be Earth's champion. Facing off against the elite Saiyan warrior known as Vegeta, Goku gives his all to prevent Vegeta from destroying Earth. But every hero needs a little help sometimes—Goku's son, Gohan, and his friends Kuririn and Yajirobe refuse to leave his side. Unfortunately, it's beginning to look as if even their combined forces may not be enough to beat back the strongest enemy they've faced yet...
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Akira Toriyama (鳥山明) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
