What does the Z stand for?

JohnnyBoy_Z · Post by **JohnnyBoy_Z** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:58 pm

Well, in my opinion, adding the "Z" at the end wasn't entirely necessary at all. They could've just continued the series as Dragon Ball, just creating new arc titles. Pretty simple if you think about it. Oh well.

SSJmole · Post by **SSJmole** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:13 pm

I always assumed Z for Z warriors but I'm pretty sure that's very wrong.

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:02 pm

Nick wrote:I always thought it was a way of saying that this second series is when Goku was an adult.

It's true that Goku is an adult throughout all of DBZ, but he also was an adult in the final storyarch of Dragon Ball, so that view is a bit overly simplistic.

SSJmole wrote:I always assumed Z for Z warriors but I'm pretty sure that's very wrong.

I'm fairly certain the Z-Senshi moniker came from Dragon Ball Z, not the other way around, but I could be wrong there.

As for why Z, before I knew anything I did think it was for Zenkai (ala closing song Zenkai Power), but from the interviews I've read from Akira Toriyama, as others have said, he put Z there because he wanted people to think it would be ending soon. A bit of irony, that.

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:55 am

caejones wrote:I think somewhere it was said that GT stands for "Grand Tourismo", but eh... same thing.

Oh, classic.

That was from the "Falsely Answered" questions on good ol' Planet Namek. If I rack my brain, I remember they also said "Z" stood for "Zoinks!" because Toriyama was a Scooby Doo fan. Oooh, good times.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:04 am

Regarding GT, I think Toriyama might have said that it stood for "Grand Touring" instead of the popular "Grand Tour."