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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 7 - 9! After an epic battle with the heartless Saiyan warrior Vegeta, Son Goku and his friends saved Earth from destruction. But the cost was high—four heroes died. While Goku recovers in the hospital, Kuririn, Bulma and Son Gohan cross the universe to the planet Namek to hunt down Dragon Balls and revive their friends. But they learn quickly that they aren't alone. Namek is under attack by Freeza, the most powerful being in the universe. Freeza and his goons will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Dragon Balls. As if that wasn't bad enough, Vegeta has landed on Namek too. When Goku hears that his friends face incredible danger, he races to their rescue. But will he make it in time? And how could he possibly stand up to the terrible power of Freeza?
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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.
