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Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール, Doragon Bōru) is an internationally popular media franchise. It consists primarily of a manga series created by Akira Toriyama, along with its follow up manga series Dragon Ball Super by Toyotarou, six anime series (Dragon Ball, Z, GT, Super, Heroes, and Daima), twenty-one anime films, three live-action films, seven anime specials, five anime OVAs, four anime crossovers, two anime PSAs and a high-def remastered recut of Dragon Ball Z (more faithful to Toriyama's manga).
Dragon Ball has an extensive online fanbase and is consistently one of the most frequently searched-for terms on Google, Yahoo! and Lycos. The franchise grossed an estimated $26.51 billion in total revenue,[1] making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
The story and characters of Dragon Ball were partly inspired by the Chinese folk novel Journey to the West, though they diverge from the novel very quickly. The plot follows the adventures of lead character Son Goku (better known simply as Goku; based on the Monkey King of the folk legend, Sun Wukong) from his childhood through his adulthood. The story includes elements both of action and comedy, though the series became more action-oriented over time