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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Viz LLC; 2 edition (6 Oct. 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1569319200
  • ISBN-13: 978-1569319208
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2 x 19 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 138,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A comic masterpiece . . . Dragon Ball's spirit of fun and adventure is unparalleled."

About the Author

Akira Toriyama's first weekly series, Dr. Slump, has entertained generations of readers in Japan since it was introduced in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1980. A few years later, he created his wildly popular Dragon Ball series, which brought him international success. Toriyama is also known for his character designs for video games, including Dragon Warrior, Chrono Trigger and Tobal No. 1.

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5.0 out of 5 starsBefore Z...there was just Dragon Ball...
By MarkPrinceRoxas on 14 May 2004
Format: Paperback
OH MY GOD!!! This is brilliant! The original adventures of Son Goku and his friends!
I couldn't wait when I bought this as I was really excited when I found it and I was able to read Dragon Ball in it's original form (not cut!). The drawings are really nicely done and the translating has been done really well.
Anyway, it starts off with Son Goku as a chibi (kid) fishing out in the wilderness when suddenly, he is hit by a car! It turns out it is a sixteen year old Bulma. After some *interesting* meetings Goku takes her back to his house where she finds the Dragon Ball she has been looking for.
Bulma explains to Son Goku what they are and he decides to help find the rest of the Dragon Balls as long as she doesn't touch his. It leads up to quiet an adventure filled with fun, humour and excitment!
If you buy this, by it as a pair with the second manga as you'll be desperate to find out what happens!
*WARNING!* Parents, if you want to buy this for you're kids because they like Dragon Ball/Z/GT on the TV be warned! It has slight nudity of Goku and Bulma and their is some adult references and jokes in it!
Just thought I'd point that out...but if you are sixteen, like me! Or really above thirteen and a Dragon Ball fan...buy this now!
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5.0 out of 5 starsA fantastic start to the series.
By Mark G. on 25 Feb. 2012
Format: Paperback
I'm almost ashamed to admit this as I am a huge anime\manga fan but this is the first time I have dipped into the Dragonball universe. Not sure why. Maybe because all I'd ever seen of it where clips of the Dragonball Z anime or games both of which seemed to be nothing more than some over-the-top fight sequences and that just made me think that it would be all fights and no story.

Anyway, I've always been a little intruiged by it and have now decided to see what all the fuss is about, starting with this first volume.

A monkey tailed boy called Goku lives secluded from the outside\modern world and is extremely strong, agile and ...bulletproof?
He meets a girl (Bulma) who is searching for 7 dragonballs, which when gathered together can be used to summon the dragon God who will grant you one wish and as Goku is in possesion of one of the Dragonballs, Bulma convinces him to join her on her quest to search for the remainder.

The time period in which the series is set is not yet revealed as Goku lives in a very rural area and initially the story looks as though it will be set in the past but then Bulma arrives in a car and my initial thought was that it is set in the modern day. That was until she reveals that she can create vehicles and even accomodation from tiny capsules known as Hoi-Poi.
Throw in talking dinosaurs and what looks like a sword wielding bear and what you end up with is a whole mish-mash of genres. Yet somehow, despite this genre crossover it all seems to work. Things are slowly introduced and before you know it you are soon accepting a shapeshifting, talking pig as the norm.

There are plenty of recognisable things here as well for anyone who is familiar with a certain work of Chinese literature.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust-have for Dragon Ball Z fans
By A Customer on 25 Oct. 2000
Format: Paperback
Anyone who likes the Dragon Ball Z cartoon must read this book! Dragon Ball is the original comic about the young Goku, all about how he meets all the other characters from the series and learns about the Dragon Balls. Excellently drawn and with a great, albeit somewhat bizarre at times, storyline, this is manga at its best. This new graphic novelisation of the original weekly Dragon Ball strips is the first English translation of the comic, and is very well treated. It's even presented in the original Japanese right-handed format, meaning that the start of the book is at the back, and all the panels and dialogue balloons run from right to left... it's a bit disconcerting at first, but you get used to it in no time. A brilliant comic, which has been presented here in a format which definitely does it justice.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDragonball Vol 1
By A Customer on 22 Jan. 2003
Format: Paperback
This book is a brilliant Dragonball and non-Dragonball fans alike.This book is quite funny at times and you will find yourself reading it again and again and noticing a few things you might of missed last time around.
The story is great.Akira Toriyama is a great story-teller and the whole saga of DB,DBZ shows this.
The story starts off with a young Goku looking for food.Whilst he is doing this Bulma is searching for the mysterious dragonballs.And so begins the adventure of a life time.
I dont want to tell you too much about this book because you really have to read it yourself to enjoy its full humour and story.
I gave it 4/5 stars because I think the 3rd book and onwards is much better as it includes alot more fight scenes.There are only a few fight scenes in the first 2 novels.This doesn't bother me because the humour more than makes up for it.
All in all I recommend this book to anybody thats a fan of manga.The story is great, The art work is simple yet detailed lol and the characters match their personalitys well.
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4.0 out of 5 starsSon Goku!
By Sam Quixote TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 12 July 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
I’m gonna say Dragon Ball was the first comic I ever came across in my life - that’s probably wrong but it’s definitely the earliest one I can remember. The copies I had were in Japanese as I lived briefly in Japan as a kid so I couldn’t read them but I still remember paging through them, back to front of course, trying to figure out from the characters’ faces and body language what was happening in the scenes and making up my own dialogue.

Later on I saw a few episodes of the TV show, then even later I saw a bit of the awful American Dragon Ball film (I changed the channel after about 20 minutes - it was unwatchable). But while I was aware of Dragon Ball as this massive franchise, I’d never actually read a Dragon Ball comic - until this week when I decided to remedy that and pick up the very first book. And it was really good - totally worth rediscovering the comic with words I could actually read!

Dragon Ball is based on the classic 16th century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, and Son Goku’s character is inspired by the novel’s protagonist Sun Wukong aka the Monkey King. In this first book (also subtitled The Monkey King) we’re introduced to Son Goku, a young boy who lives alone with his “grandpa” (a Dragon Ball) practicing martial arts in the wild, and living off the land. He’s not lonely, he’s a happy-go-lucky kid… who also has a monkey tail!

Then a teenage girl called Bulma crosses his path - she’s looking for the seven mystical Dragon Balls on her summer holiday from school. The legend goes that if you put all seven balls together, the Dragon God will appear and grant you one wish. Together, Son Goku and Bulma set out to collect all of the Dragon Balls and have adventures along the way!Read more ›
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