Dragon Ball (manga)
Dragon Ball was originally a gag manga (comic) created by famed manga artist Akira Toriyama (Bird Studio), that evolved into an martial arts action manga, becoming the standard to which all future shōnen manga would be compared. It began its run on 20 November 1984 in Weekly Shōnen Jump, a popular manga anthology magazine in Japan. Each week a new chapter would be published with approximately 14 pages per chapter. When it was all said and done, the series had come to a total of 520 chapters, including one side-story, which was an amazing feat at the time.
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