Dragon Ball Z

[jing]

Can someone be kind enough to tell me what the Z stand for? I watched this 8 years ago, I don't think I knew what the Z stood for back then.

[joker-kun]

the Z has no meaning as does the GT

[jing]

i thought GT stood for Grand Tour.

[Xollence]

Z stands for zen

[Death BOO Z]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (sangai sakusei @ Dec 8 2003, 12:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> yes akira toriyama is still alive and kicken he is only 45 or 55 he was born on the same day and month as me april 5th 19** something hes still relativly young and being japanese those guys live a long as time

and the Z in dragonball z is for zen as mentioned supposedly has to a fighting style </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
fighting style in the same sentence as DBZ? what the hell is wrong with you?

just kidding, but isn&#39;t the Z there becuase goku and co. are the Z fighters? or are they the Z fighters becuase it&#39;s DBZ?

anyway, GT is grand tour, and Z is probably a letter he liked and he didn&#39;t want to use X cuz it&#39;s already overused (X-men, Mega man X, X-files, Xtreme...).

[pandaexpress79]

the Z is just a way that toriyama made so ppl can tell the difference in the animes between reg and Z but in the manga there is no split its just dragonball... and gt didn&#39;t really have toriyama&#39;s 100% atention, i guess you could say, unlike its predisesors, it was someting i think toei wanted but he didn&#39;t really want to do it...

but in short none of the letters mean anything there just there to tell the animes apart... http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/smile.gif

and if they do have meaning please post where you found out because i don&#39;t wanna sound ignorant this is just the basic info i&#39;ve gathered over the years about dragonball&#39;s title, so if they have meaning send me the place of where to see the title meanings...

[XwingRob]

Because it sounded cooler than Dragon Ball 2. http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif

Edit: BTW the creator of Dragonball is still alive, right? http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/huh.gif

[DB_Hunter]

It doesn&#39;t matter now.... it&#39;s all pure magical history now 4 me.. DBZ that is http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif

[XwingRob]

http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif LOL, for some reason I thought he died or something.

[DB_Hunter]

lol me http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce2.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce2.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce2.gif ???????

[Jman]

DB/Z/GT...heh the most ridiculous one had to be that fake DB:AF http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif tsk..tsk..super saiyain level 6 goku. Can&#39;t believe even kids back in my highschool thought that shit was real.

[Xeo]

But we gotta give it some credit... as far as action series go. DBZ really paved the way for lots of good stuff.

[XwingRob]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (animemaster @ Dec 8 2003, 06:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> DB/Z/GT...heh the most ridiculous one had to be that fake DB:AF http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif tsk..tsk..super saiyain level 6 goku. Can&#39;t believe even kids back in my highschool thought that shit was real. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Haha, there was also a Goku-Piccolo fusion...

[sangai]

yes akira toriyama is still alive and kicken he is only 45 or 55 he was born on the same day and month as me april 5th 19** something hes still relativly young and being japanese those guys live a long as time

and the Z in dragonball z is for zen as mentioned supposedly has to a fighting style

[Elite Hentai]

DBZ stands for Dragonball Zucks or Dragonball Ztupid http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[DB_Hunter]

Urge to kill..... Elite Hentai.... growing....... process of gathering lynch mob.... started....... http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_jumpon.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_jumpon.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_jumpon.gif

[complich8]

if I&#39;ve been told my history right, the reason GT blows such gigantic chunks is that Akira Toriyama didn&#39;t have anything at all to do with it. I&#39;ll retell what I&#39;ve been told, but don&#39;t treat me as any sort of authority on this, I very likely could be wrong.

Toriyama was busy doing the manga (which originally was planned to end with goku dying on the planet namek). The anime caught up with the manga during dbz which explains its bad pacing and the notorious full-episode powerups -- particularly around the end of the frieza saga. Toriyama didn&#39;t think the manga would continue after that, having effectively killed off Goku and elegantly wrapping up a retelling of the super-saiyajin legend (being consumed by his own power in the end), but the fans ate it up, the studios ate it up, and he was making fat cash, so he continued with the androids/cell arc and the buu saga. But eventually even wanting money has its limits, and Toriyama decided to stop dragging out the inevitable and wrapped up DBZ. DBZ-GT was created by the studio without toriyama&#39;s artistic direction or input, and so kind of floundered, but at the same time returned to simpler roots (find some lovable characters, find the dragon balls, fight stuff). People liked GT for the return to the basics, and for kid-form goku being there (since adult goku was rather invincible, being the readily accepted strongest fighter in the universe and all). And of course the addition of yet another super saiyajin level got the fans really into it, whether or not the original creator was still writing manga for it.

That&#39;s about it. DBZ did pave a lot of roads, and hook a lot of people. You have to give it credit for that, no matter what you think of the series itself.