How to Watch Dragon Ball in Order: Series, Sagas, and Movies

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It's casual to underestimate conscionable however influential the Dragon Ball franchise is, but the Akira Toriyama manga fundamentally defined what an enactment shonen manga would beryllium for the adjacent 40 years. Goku became the archetypical anime protagonist, portion his narration with Vegeta became the modular that each anime rivalries would emulate. It helped popularize power-up transformations, clip jumps, and overmuch much successful some anime and manga.

Sure, it's casual to boil down Dragon Ball to conscionable having highly agelong combat scenes, but the franchise is overmuch much than that. With bold changes successful tone, from hilarious gag drama to meaningful moments of inspiration, arsenic good arsenic a myriad of large broadside characters, Dragon Ball remains arsenic bully arsenic its estimation would suggest.

Still, this is 1 of the longest-running anime franchises, with dozens of movies successful summation to respective anime series. It tin beryllium hard to navigate the Dragon Ball universe, but that's what this usher is for. Whether you fell disconnected the wagon astatine 1 constituent and privation to drawback up, oregon you're looking to embark connected your precise archetypal travel with Son Goku, here's however to ticker each Dragon Ball anime and movie successful order.

Inspired by Akira Toriyama's manga of the aforesaid name, Dragon Ball includes implicit 800 episodes crossed 5 anime series. There person besides been implicit 20 anime movies acceptable successful the Dragon Ball universe, which grow the communicative oregon adjacent proceed it.

Now, what astir canon? That's wherever it gets a spot complicated. Granted, Toriyama ne'er truly cared overmuch astir canon, arsenic helium perpetually tinkered with his story, retconning things whenever helium thought of thing amended than helium had earlier (remember erstwhile Goku was conscionable a blessed monkey feline and not an alien superhero?). Still, what makes Dragon Ball canon analyzable is that portion astir of the movies aren't technically canon, the past 4 movies are portion of the authoritative Dragon Ball continuity.

Then there's Dragon Ball Daima, a canon anime bid that seemed to marque Dragon Ball GT, a amusement agelong considered to beryllium non-canon, somewhat canon. So what does this mean? Well, it is benignant of up to the audience. If you similar Dragon Ball GT, past you tin deliberation of it arsenic canon. If you similar to skip it, past by each means, bash so.

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The afloat scope of everything Dragon Ball is connected Crunchyroll. The anime streaming work is besides the lone spot you'll find astir of the movies, though Z Kai and Daima are besides streaming connected Hulu. For the collectors, each of the Dragon Ball bid and movies are disposable arsenic carnal releases.

How to Watch Dragon Ball successful Order

1. Dragon Ball (Episodes 1-13)

Pilaf Saga

2. Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (Movie)

An alternate retelling of the archetypal saga of the story. Best watched aft the Emperor Pilaf Saga alternatively than person this beryllium your archetypal vulnerability to the characters.

3. Dragon Ball (Episode 14)

Start of Tournament Saga

4. Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess successful Devil's Castle (Movie)

Goku and Krillin are tasked to prevention a sleeping princess from Lucifer (yes, that Lucifer). The movie takes spot astatine the commencement of Goku and Krillin's training.

5. Dragon Ball (Episodes 15-28)

Finish Tournament Saga

6. Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (Movie)

Goku and Krillin articulation the World Martial Arts Tournament portion Bora hides a Dragon Ball from the emperor's evil forces.

7. Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (Movie)

An alternate retelling of the communicative truthful far, merging the archetypal 2 sagas with immoderate chill changes.

8. Dragon Ball (Episodes 29-153)

Red Ribbon Army Saga
General Blue Saga
Commander Red Saga
Fortunteller Baba Saga
Tien Shinhan Saga
King Piccolo Saga
Piccolo Jr. Saga

9. Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (Movie)

Garlic Jr. kidnaps Gohan, truthful Goku indispensable rescue his son.

11. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 1-86)

Raditz Saga
Vegeta Saga
Namek Saga
Captain Ginyu Saga
Start of Frieza Saga

12. Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku (Special)

A prequel showing the last days of the satellite Vegeta earlier Frieza destroyed it, focusing connected Goku's father, Bardock.

13. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 87-107)

Rest of Frieza Saga

14. Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (Movie)

Goku and his friends indispensable decision an evil idiosyncratic who kidnaps Bulma, but erstwhile Gohan shows his unthinkable power, the idiosyncratic tries to bargain his body!

15. Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (Movie)

We person pirates now! A Sayian pirate called Turles and his unit effort to conquer the Earth by planting a magical histrion that tin sorb each beingness connected the satellite and permission it a desolated wasteland.

16. Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (Movie)

What if Dragon Ball was Michael Bay's Armageddon? This time, Earth is threatened by a monolithic asteroid connected a collision people towards Earth. While Krillin and Goku caput retired to halt it, a Namekian conqueror tries to usage the Dragon Balls to instrumentality implicit Earth.

17. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 108-123)

Garlic Jr. Saga
Start of Trunks Saga

18. Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (Special)

A peculiar depicting the post-apocalyptic aboriginal that Trunks comes from, and however the sword-wielding teen went backmost successful clip to forestall his aboriginal from existing.

19. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 124-125)

Rest of Trunks Saga

20. Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (Movie)

Goku and his friends spell connected a camping travel aft the decision of Frieza, but their celebrations are interrupted erstwhile the alien conqueror's older member comes looking for revenge.

21. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 126-139)

Androids Saga

22. Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13 (Movie)

New terrifying execution androids, 13, 14, and 15 are activated aft Android 17 and 18 execution Dr. Gero. Now, Goku and the Z Fighters indispensable woody with them.

23. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 140-165)

Imperfect Cell Saga
Perfect Cell Saga

24. Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Cooler is back, and present he's a robot! After enslaving the radical of New Namek, Cooler arrives connected Earth with an service of robots. Making matters worse, the world-be conqueror claims to person killed Goku.

25. Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan

The Z Fighters are invited to the satellite New Vegeta. There, they drawback upwind of a legendary Super Saiyan hellbent connected destroying the universe.

26. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 166-194)

Cell Games Saga

27. Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound

Gohan yet gets the spotlight! The demon Bojack is yet free, and helium decides to big the biggest martial arts tourney successful the galaxy, and Gohan is the lone 1 susceptible of redeeming the Earth.

28. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 195-209)

Other World Saga
Great Saiyaman Saga

29. Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming (Movie)

Broly is back, awakened by Goten's crying (yes, this really happened). This movie is memorable for having a Father-Sons Kamehameha with Gohan, Goten and Goku's spirit.

30. Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (Movie)

Yes, Broly is inactive someway around, and helium returns yet again arsenic a clone. Goten, Trunks, and champion lad Krillin person to halt him.

31. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 210-287)

World Tournament Saga
Babidi Saga
Majin Buu Saga
Fusion Saga
Kid Buu Saga

32. Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (Movie)

A fever imagination of a movie, featuring villains agelong dead. Worth watching due to the fact that of Vegeta and Goku's fusion form, but mostly portion of its ain timeline.

33. Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (Movie)

The pack fights a kaiju successful this movie, which has immoderate of the champion euphony successful the franchise.

34. Dragon Ball GT (Episodes 1-64)

The not-quite canon Dragon Ball bid primitively aired aft Dragon Ball Z and is mostly considered to beryllium a portion of its ain timeline. Emperor Pilaf uses the Black Star Dragon Ball to crook Goku into a child.

35. Dragon Ball Daima (Episodes 1-20)

The astir caller Dragon Ball bid follows Goku and friends who person been turned into children and indispensable traverse the Demon Realm to go adults again.

36. Dragon Ball Super (Episodes 1-27)

The adjacent 2 Dragon Ball Z movies (Battle of the Gods and Resurrection F) and the archetypal 2 sagas of Dragon Ball Super screen the aforesaid wide storylines, but with immoderate cardinal differences. The Dragon Ball Super sagas are considered canon, but it's worthy checking some out.

Gods of Destruction Beerus Saga
Golden Frieza Arc

37. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods (Movie)

This is the movie wherever Goku fights a literal god, and each arguments astir who tin and can't decision Goku go everlastingly pointless.

39. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F (Movie)

No 1 ever dies successful Dragon Ball, truthful of people Frieza comes backmost to beingness and swears revenge connected Goku. That's it. That's the movie. Oh, and Vegeta gets a chill caller power.

40. Dragon Ball Super (Episodes 28-131)

Universe 6 Saga
Copy Vegeta Saga
"Future" Trunks Saga
Universe Survival Saga

41. Dragon Ball Super: Broly (Movie)

The movie tells the communicative of Broly and his past with Goku, Raditz and Vegeta. In the present, Broly returns yet again to wreak havoc, and it is up to Goku and Vegeta to virtually harvester forces to halt him.

42. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (Movie)

The champion father-son duo, Piccolo and Gohan, yet get the spotlight! We besides get the triumphant instrumentality of the Red Ribbon Army, who make androids to instrumentality implicit the world.

43. Dragon Ball Z (Episodes 289-291)

Peaceful World Saga

I wouldn't urge splitting up Dragon Ball Z similar this connected your archetypal watch, but the archetypal ending saga technically takes spot 10 years aft the decision of Majin Buu. At the precise least, it whitethorn beryllium worthy coming backmost to these last episodes aft watching Dragon Ball Super.

What's Next for Dragon Ball

Unfortunately, we don't cognize yet. Dragon Ball Daima was the precise past task creator Akira Toriyama worked on, and aft his passing, Dragon Ball Super went into hiatus with the objection of a peculiar one-shot contented earlier this year. At this constituent it is uncertain however the franchise volition determination guardant without Toriyama, but if Daima was the past we ever spot of Goku and his friends, it was a chaotic and entertaining ride.

Rafael Motamayor is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything anime and animation.

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