Along the way, they meet and befriend a plethora of martial artists. One day Goku meets a girl named Bulma and together they go on a quest to retrieve the seven Dragon Balls, mythical objects that can summon a dragon who will grant any wish. The story follows a monkey-tailed boy named Goku who is found by an old martial arts expert who raises him as his grandson. This was also the reason Goku learned to teleport (thus allowing characters to move to any planet in a second). In order to advance the story quickly, he also gave most fighters the ability to fly so they could travel to other parts of the world without inconvenience. When having fights in the manga, Toriyama had the characters go to a place where nobody lived to avoid difficulties in drawing destroyed buildings. However the island where the World Martial Arts Tournament is held is modeled after Bali. When creating the fictional world of the series, Toriyama decided to create basing it from his own imagination to avoid referencing popular culture. Toriyama proceeded to create names for all of the techniques, except for the Kamehameha ( かめはめ波) which his wife named when Toriyama was indecisive about what it should be called.
The fighting techniques were initially unnamed, but the series editor felt it would be better to name them all. Toriyama notes that his goal for the series was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story. Slump with a more action-oriented plot and paid homage to famous martial art actor, Jackie Chan. This short work combined the comedic style of Toriyama's successful six-year series Dr. He also redeveloped one of his earlier one shot manga series, Dragon Boy, which was initially serialized in Fresh Jump and released in a single tankōbon volume in 1983. スランプ), when Akira Toriyama began work on Dragon Ball he decided to loosely model it on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Wanting to break from the Western influences common in his other series, Dr. 3 Media with elements appearing in the Super Smash Flash series.Conceived in 1984, it is the oldest manga entry in the Super Smash Flash series. Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga series of its time, and it continues to enjoy high readership today. Along his trip, Goku meets several friends and fights against several villains who also seek the Dragon Balls. Inspired by the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West, it follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through middle age as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical objects known as the Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon. The Dragon Ball ( ドラゴンボール) universe refers to the Super Smash Flash series' collection of characters, stages, and properties that hail from Weekly Shōnen Jump's manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. Action, adventure, comedy, martial arts, science fantasy