Acronyms

The following acronyms are widely used both in the professional and fandom space with regard to the Dragon Ball franchise and expanded works of Akira Toriyama:

• GT: Grand Touring.
  The 64-episode Dragon Ball GT television-only series from 1996-1997 served as the first official sequel to the original Dragon Ball production. The "GT" moniker was suggested by Akira Toriyama, who said: "...in car lingo, GT means 'Gran Turismo': a fast, high-powered car, in other words. But in this case, I had GT mean 'Grand Touring', a great journey, since the scenario was that they’d be running around the universe."
• SSGSS: Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
  A transformation introduced in the 2015 theatrical film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and subsequently adapted into Dragon Ball Super, "Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan" is described as "a Super Saiyan with the power of Super Saiyan God". The transformation is later referred to in dialog by character as "Super Saiyan Blue".
• SSJ: Super Saiya-jin.
  An adaptation of 超サイヤ人 (Sūpā Saiyajin), or "Super Saiyan". While the shorter "SS" acronym has certainly been used, factors contributing to the full "SSJ" acronym being put into wider use have included: the prevalence of the "jin" word ending in Japanese to non-native speakers in a pre-localization era, a desire to distance oneself from the Nazi police force, etc.
• USJ / USSJ: Ultra Saiya-jin / Ultra Super Saiya-jin.
  Prior to a formal name being provided in official franchise documentation, Curtis Hoffmann assigned the "Ultra Saiya-jin" naming scheme to the "Grade" forms within the first Super Saiyan transformation in his online, text-based tankōbon summaries from the 1990s. (See also: "SSJ" above.)
• WJ / WSJ: Weekly Shōnen Jump
  A weekly manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha, Weekly Shōnen Jump was home to the original serializations of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball along with various other works by Akira Toriyama. "WJ" is often used in place of "WSJ" as a point of distinction from the Wall Street Journal.