Here's the DBZ story..I'm sorry about all the typos..I'll try to fix them but I'm sure I'm gonna miss a few....I'd also like to apologize for any direct quotes taken out of the Viz translated Dragon Ball ^___^
To start off here is a quote from Wuken's page..I don't take credit for a thing in this quote.. just.. he said EVERYTHING perfectly!
"Dragon Ball was originally based on the 16th century work Hsi Yu Chi (in English, "The Record of A Journey to the West"), a novel written by the Chinese satirist Wu Cheng'en. The mythological tale was a fictional account of the real-life journey of Hsuan Tsang, a Buddhist monk who in 628, left his hometown of Chang'an and traveled westward, intent on finding Buddhist scriptures that might help China learn about the religion. He was successful in his endeavors, and upon his return, was given the name "Tripitaka" by the Emperor. Tripitaka quickly became the most reknowned religious figure in Asia, and countless stories and legends were told about his journey. These stories soon became increasingly unbelievable, as tales of demons, spirits, monsters, and magic were introduced into them. At one point a monkey was added into the story, and this became so popular that all future tales of Tripitaka included the monkey. In Hsi Yu Chi, the monkey was called Sun Wukong.
Dragon Ball, in its beginnings, was more or less a modern retelling of Hsu Yi Chi. In both, there was the journey for mystical artifacts -- in Hsu Yu Chi, it was for Buddhist sutras; in Dragon Ball, it was for the Dragon Balls, seven magical spheres that when brought together, called forth a Dragon that would grant the discover a single wish. The popular monkey Sun Wukong was a parallel to Dragon Ball's Son Gokuh. Both had the ability to ride clouds, both carried similar weapons, both could transform, both were "monkeys", and both had the same name -- "Son Gokuh" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese "Sun Wukong". Various other associations can be made connecting the two stories together, such as the naive girl Bulma with Tripitaka, etc.
Dragon Ball deviated far from the Hsu Yu Chi formula once the character Pilaf was introduced. From that point on, the story focused on the misadventures of the young Son Gokuh, who was learning how to live in a world far different from his secluded home on Paozu Yama. Through the course of 16 collected manga volumes, Son Gokuh would participate in three martial arts tournaments, encounter and defeat an army bent on taking over the world, and build lasting friendships with the people around him, many of which surprisingly were former enemies. The focus on this portion of Dragon Ball was on humor and wild adventures."(end quote ^_^)
The rest... is all mine! ^___^
"One day in 1986, Akira Toriyama sat down to begin his next master piece after his already famous "Dr. Slump" which had started out as a comic in Shonen Jump and later became an anime. After 10 long years, it was finally complete and had gone anime as well. The Dragon Ball series was/is the most famous kid's show in all Japan, Hong Kong and France... and the Manga has sold well over 110 million copies...making it the most succesful (and money making) anime/mangas of all time..There are 16 (!!!) movies all together not counting 3 TV specials and over 500 (count em') episodes! which is devided by 3 different series....here is the story of how Goku, a silly little boy, grew to be a powerful man..
Prologue..a small baby is found in the woods inside a spaceship...he is found with a tail by an old man walking by, named Son Gohan. Son Gohan brings the baby home and washes him and clothes him, but not without a lot of effort, and getting hit over and over by the screaming baby....he was an extremely violent child....he would kick and shout and bite like he was an animal. Gohan names him Son Goku..which, in Chinese, means "Monkey King" (Which is cute on the count of his little tail :) One day while Son Gohan was walking with Goku in a carrier, on Gohan's back, Goku jumps out of the carrier to escape, but falls into a ravine and lands head first, on a boulder. He almost dies but being a tough little kid, he pulls through and from that day on he was a sweet little boy with no memory of all the mean things he did. Gohan teaches Goku martial arts until Goku becomes even better than him, but Goku has a uncontrollable, deadly power that not even he knows about. At the sight of a full moon and having his tail, he transforms into this HUGE ape(think King Kong ^_^) with a power 10 times more powerful than he was before as a boy. When this happens one night, Goku, unable to control himself, accidently steps on Son Gohan, killing him. When the full moon dissapears Goku is back to normal and completely unsuspecting. He has no clue what happened. All he knows is that something bad happenned and killed everything.(Boy is he observant). Goku had been taught martial arts very well by Gohan but unfortunately no education, leaving Goku well....kinda dumb. So Goku lives on his own and survives by killing his own food.....(None of this is revealed until the beginning of Dragonball Z)
The actual first episode of Dragonball begins when one day Goku decides to go eat. He tells his Sushinchu or "Four star Dragonball" (he thinks that his dragonball posesses his grandfather's spirit, since it was the only thing he left Goku when he died) that he is going out to eat and starts his little trip to the edge of a waterfall. He decides he's hungry for fish so he jumps off and just before he hits the ground he catches a nearby branch, swings around a couple of times before letting go, does a couple of flips in mid-air and neatly lands on the ground just below the tree. (I suspect he does this everyday.. hee hee) He takes off all his clothes and sticks his little tail in the water. A nearby fish sees the tail and thinks breakfast is served and jumps up, out of the water to chomp the tail. Just before he can chow down on goku's tail, Goku neatly side steps the fish and kicks it in the side of the head, knocking it unconcious. On his fateful trip back, carrying the fish behind him, he hears a very strange sound off in the distance. (a car) Goku has no clue what the sound is, seeing as he has never seen another human before(besides his Grandfather).. let alone a car.Of course it's none other than everyone's favorite character...Bulma!^_^ She zooms toward Goku and accidentally nearly runs him over (Not so much to say for the fish..) but swirves to the right at the last moment and just knocks Goku a few feet away. Goku thinks the car is some kind of monster and picks up the car yelling that he won't let the monster steal his prey, and chucks the car about 20 feet. Bulma is hanging out of the window, dazed and confused (that's a good movie.. ^___^) Goku sees her hanging out and says "Yeesh...now a hideous demon emerges from the monster!" I can guess this doesn't make Bulma anymore happy than she already is and gets even madder and pulls out her gun (what the hell is she doing with a gun?!) Screams at him and shoots Goku in the head a couple of times. Goku, however isn't dead..being as he is no ordinary kid and just says Bulma is some kind of witch. Bulma is suprised he isn't dead and he explains how it would take more than a couple of "Ouchies" like that to hurt him. Goku takes his Nyoi Bo and threatens to kill the "demon". Bulma yells at him to wait, and tells him that she is no demon but a human. Goku can't believe it and looks her all over and comes to the conclusion that she is sort of like him but softer and bumpier (::sweatdrop::) Bulma explains to him how he is a big "he-man" and sh's a cute lil' girl! ^_^ Goku is suprised to hear that she is a girl since his grandfather said if Goku were to ever meet a girl he should treat her nicely. Goku looks her over one more time and says how it's weird that girls don't have tails! (hee hee!) Bulma think he must think he looks cool with that "fake" tail on. Then, Bulma explains that the monster was really a car.. ...So, Goku invites Bulma in his house for food. When Bulma sees the Dragon ball in Goku's house she gets excited and picks it up and asks if she can have it. Goku says to take her hands off of his "Grandpa"and that it was his last possession and that even GIRLS aren't allowed to touch it. So Bulma takes out her own two Dragon balls she has and explains the legend of the Dragon balls and their magical powers...how, when all seven are brought together and you summon the Dragon God, Shenlong, he will grant you any one wish (but she cleverly leaves out the part of how: when the wish is granted, the Dragon balls scatter all to the ends of the Earth and cannot be brought together until another year at least...) So, knowing that Bulma cannot just take the Dragon ball, she tells him he can come along (and also be an excellent body guard for her) and she'll just borrow his Dragon ball at the very end so he can keep it until then... and he agrees, and so begins the Dragon Ball series..
Once their journey begins..... As Goku rides on the back of the Bulma-driven motorcycle, they decide to call it a night since they are both hungry and tired, and it was starting to get dark. She takes out a house capsule as Goku seriously doubts that a whole house could fit into that capsule.. she explains that they are "Hoi Poi" Capsules.. (And I'm sure now he understands) Once he's in the house (after much convincing) She tells him that he's stinking up the place and he's going to take a bath before they eat.. (eww... he also says he's never taken a bath before...).. since he hasn't ever taken a bath before Bulma has to give him one (O_o) And she soon finds out that his tail is real (and then screams) The next day..Goku goes out to excersise and begins crushing rocks.. he comes up to nother rock and is about to crush it.. but realizes it's a turtle! Bulma asks it why it's so far inland.. andthe turtle explains how he had gone to gather mushrooms one day and got loast and had been wandering looking for the sea for the past year hoping to find his way back! So, Goku and Bulma bring the turtle back to the shore of the sea (not without much of Bulma's protests) The turtle tells them to wait at the shore while he goes and gets them a reward. The turtle returns with an old man riding on his back (Kamesennin!) Along the way they meet up with Yamcha with his little girl cat freind,Yamcha who Bulma falls in love with at first sight, often leaves Yamcha helpless since Yamcha has a HUGE fear of women, and whenever Bulma runs up to him he runs away like a mad man which cause Goku to win the fight that they had when they first met..and then Puar who can talk as well as change into any object she wishes (since she learned how to at shape changing school.) and they had met up with Oolong before Yamcha and Puar....Oolong was stealing girls from his town by changing into a horrible monster and kidnapping them. (Like Puar he can also change into things) but in reality is really only a shrimpy pig. Goku and Bulma trick him into stealing Goku (who is dressed up as a girl) but Oolong finds out when Goku goes pee right in front of Oolong (When you gotta go, you gotta go...) but they eventually catch him and make him return the girls, when Bulma and Goku find out that he only stole the girls to keep his house tidy, the girls are all returned. They also meet up with the "strongest martial artist in the world" Kamesenin or "Turtle Hermit" mostly called by his more serious name, Muten Roshi, which is where they get his english name, Master Roshi. He was the first human to be able to control his "Ki" and create fireballs with his hands..He gives Goku and Bulma his Kintoun or "Nimbus" since they helped save his Turtle friend. There is a catch though...only those who have pure hearts can ride this little yellow tinted cloud. So Goku jumps on for a ride but when Bulma tries to get on, she just falls right through. '____'*
Bulma sees that Roshi is wearing a dragonball around his neck and asks him if she could have it, but he said he'll only give it to her if she shows him her panties. (Being the pervert we all know him as.) She obviously doesn't want to but Goku reminds her how important the dragonball is so she relunctantly lifts up her dress but woops Bulma wasn't wearing any under wear! (Since Goku, the night before had taken them off when she was sleeping..and -learned the difference between girls and boys-then SCREAMED, Bulma woke up and said "What?!?!" and Goku replied shakily "your-your balls are missing!!!" So Bulma, in a panick runs to her suitcase with all the Dragonballs and sighs in releif as all the Dragonballs are still there..it's soo funny! Sick, yes..but funny! ^_^)Tsk...Tsk....Bulma doesn't know this and Roshi gratefully gives her the 2 star dragonball.
Bulma & Co. eventually get almost all the dragonballs but then lord Pilaf's agents..Mai and Shu, steal the five that Bulma had and finds the last one. Goku still has his though, since he keeps his in a little pouch tied around his waist. Yamcha gives them a hand since he was planning on taking all the dragonballs for himself and drives them in his car to Lord Pilaf's castle where they are trapped in a natural oven (there is a skylight on the ceiling and when the sun passes over it at noon the next morning, the room will heat up and they would all burn to death.) and the remaining dragonball is stolen from Goku after they are hit with sleeping gas. When they wake up Goku tries his Kamehameha to break down the wall but only succeeds in making a small round hole....too small for Goku to fit through even but when they look out they see that Pilaf has already summonned Shenlong. Yamcha comes up with a plan... Puar and Oolong both change into bats and fly in front of Pilaf when he is about to announce his wish and Oolong says "I wish for a pair of girls' panties!!!" before Pilaf can even say anything. "You're wish has been granted"a pair of panties lie on the ground and the dragonballs scatter. Just then Goku looks through the skylight and sees a full moon... his heart starts beating loudly and he starts growing fur and rising in height. His pupils dissapear and he breaks the walls of the room as he grows. When he is done transforming he starts to break Pilaf's castle as if it were made of toy blocks. Bulma and Yamcha both know that if they don't do something fast, they could be hurt as well. So Puar shape changes into scissors and snips Goku's tail off. Changing him back into his sweet little self again, wondering how they got out of Pilaf's castle and how come it was all over the place. (Still, he doesn't get it). Bulma and the others decide not to tell Goku about what really happenned.
Summer was over and Bulma had to go back to school..leaving Goku on his own.....so he goes back to Kamesennin to train...but Kamesennin said he won't train him until he brings him a "hottie"...Goku first brings this really fat old woman who was lifting weights... Kamesennin, dissapointed, brings him inside and does a little test ...he holds up 2 pictures..one, of an ugly old lady and one of this beautiful girl.. and asks Goku which one is the hottie...Goku replies "This is hard" and Kamesennin in disbelief just sends him out to try again...Goku comes back with what seems a pretty girl...but when Kamesennin asks Goku to go retrieve her panties he comes back asking what a shirt is..Kamesennin tells him to just ask her for his panties and Goku tells him that she only has a shirt and no panties...Kamesennin's face lights up and he runs over to Nimbus in which the girl is sitting on, only to discover she is a mermaid..^_^ ..After she leaves..a little boat arrives at the island...inside is a short and stubby kid with a shaved head...he jumps off the boat and introduces himself as Kuririn from the Orinji Temple (possibly a play on the word..Orange?) He says that he has come to have the honor of training under "The Great Martial Artist" Kamesennin.. Kamesennin says they should both go together to find a "hottie" or he won't train either of them... Kuririn sees Goku on the little cloud and hops on, but falls right through...Kamesennin is a little hesitant on training Kuririn and tells him that the reason Kuririn cannot ride on Kintoun is beacuse he has come to train for unpure purposes...Kuririn stammers that he had just come to train to get girls..(and that isn't unpure?)..Kuririn hangs on to Goku so he won't fall off and they soar into the sky..along the way as they go to find a "hottie" Goku asks Kuririn if that's the Turtle Guy's type...Kuririn is excited and asks "Where! Where!" Then Kuririn sees he was pointing to a farmer guy.."That's a man you idiot!!" Goku is amazed..."You mean you can tell just by looking?!" .."That's awesome!" Kuririn is a little confused..."You kidding right? I mean you really can't tell???" Goku explains to him.. "Sure I can..if I pat 'em to see what's under their pants" Kuririn..".......", "Let me just tell you up front...I'm a guy ok?" Goku replies.. "Gotcha" .then the scene changes to a girl on a moter bike being persued by the police... they are shooting at her and every bullet is a near miss.....the police try and reason with her..one of the officers shouts for her to stop or they'll have to shoot ..the other officer informs him that they are already shooting..^_^.... the mysterious girl then throws a granade at one of the cars and it explodes one of the cars.. there is still a car chasing after her though and just then, as she is about to shoot at the police with a fairly big gun, a peice of her hair causes her to sneeze...transforming her back into ladylike niceness with black hair and black eyes as oppossed to crazylike nastiness with blonde hair and blue eyes(That kinda reminds me of a Saiya-jin)....meanwhile, Goku and Kuririn are still in search for the perfect girl...she falls off her bike from her transformation and the 2 policeman point their guns at her telling her she is under arrest and they'll shoot if she tries anything "scary"..she has this totally innocent, yet frightened look on her face "Wh..Who are you?? What do you want with me??" They get a little frustrated as they tell her that she should know they are the police...when she asks if she did something wrong one of the policeman says "Let's just arrest her and get this over with!"...the girl gets real scared and yells "EEEK! SOMEBODY HELP ME--!!" Goku and Kuririn, just about to give up their search, hear her call for help and they direct the kintoun over to the sound...where they beat up the police (although Kuririn is a little reluctant) without much trouble (well Kuririn was hiding behind a rock...while GOKU beat them up) then the girl runs over to them and thanks them..Kuririn then walks out from behind the rock.."please..it was nothing.." Goku asks him if she is a good choice.." they fly off towards Kamesennin's house while Kuririn says.."she's perfect"
When they arrive Kamesennin is in the bathroom...Goku starts yelling, asking him if he's "dropping a load".. Roshi comes out a little angry..telling Goku not to embarrass him...when he sees the girl he eyes get all big..she introduces herself as "Lunch" as she tries explaining what happens to her when she sneezes, Kamesennin's is just looking her all over...Lunch thanks him for his "grandsons" saving her..and Kamennin invites her to train and stay at the Kame house with them...Kuririn tells Lunch how famous Kamesennin is and she gratefully excepts his invitation...(I'm gonna start calling him Roshi for now on...it's a lot easier) anyway..Roshi turns to Kuririn and tells him.."You are my kind of student!" , "I live to serve master", he replies...then Roshi gives Lunch a box with clothes in it...he tells her to put on the clothes...so she starts lifting up her shirt and then Kuririn asks excitedly "You're gonna dress out here?!" "Lunch realizes what she was doing and says "oh, right..I should change in the house.." She then walks into the house...Roshi gives Kuririn this evil look..."Did I actually SAY you were my kind of student???" Lunch comes out in this lacy underwear type thing...and says.."um..maybe the packages got mixed up?" ..Roshi, Goku and Kuririn are all wearing the same thing..(It's halarious!)and he explains that all of Kamesennin's students wear it..^_^ ..hee hee..I'm sure...just then, a wasp flys by, right under Lunch's nose..causing her to....."Ah......Ah..Ah....ACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" then, Lunch, in her wacko form..looks around..."where am I?....doesn't look like jail..." Her eye catches Goku, Kuririn and Roshi..."YOU BROUGHT ME HERE!" She wips out a gun and shoots them all...of course these aren't exactly ordinary people here.. they are hurt..but alive..Lunch then sneezes again and sees the gun in her hand.."oops sorry..I told you about my sneezes, didn't I?"
Lunch decides to become the cook of everyone, while Roshi decides to test his new students' talents, but in a more sufficent place. He presses a button on the side of the Kame house and it turns into a small capsule.. throws out another capsule that turns into a boat and they ride away from the small island...a while later they arrive at a much larger island with a much larger population {{of 300}} (as opposed to 1--or 2 if you count the turtle--)When they arrive, Roshi points at a rock and a tree...and explains to the two desciples they are exactly 100 meters apart...He asks them to each take a turn, running as fast as they can to the other side..Kuririn zooms past and Roshi clocks him at 10.4 seconds...next is Goku's turn and he flys by and looks at his feet doing that cartoon thing.. (left) Goku was fast but still slower than Kuririn, finishing with 11 seconds flat...Kuririn is releived that Goku hadn't beat his time...Goku asks if he could try again because of his shoes..Kuririn shows Goku his shoes."Do these look like running shoes to you?", he asks..Goku agrees with him but points out how his shoes are busted...Goku shows Kuririn his shoes and they are COMPLETELY ripped open, which means he could run that fast with totally busted shoes..Kamesennin agrees to let him try again..
Goku runs again...and this time finshes with 8.5 seconds...(about 26 MPH)Kuririn is amazed...while Goku just asks if that was fast...Kamesennin is very impressed with his 2 students..but explains to them that they are still within human limits..and in order to become a great martial arts master, they must break the wall of humanity..he gives Kuririn the timer and announces that he'll run also...Kuririn is amazed that an old man like himself would be willing to run...Kamesennin suprises them by runnning the length within 5.6 seconds..(remember..this guy is over 300 years old...)but he isn't suprised at all and just bends over to put his turtle shell, that he always carries on his back, on again. He asks Goku to go fetch him a beer, Goku asks him what a "beer" is..and Kuririn gratefully offers to get him the beer..while he's gone, Kamesennin explains that a martial artist must also possess knowledge...and that Goku needs a little work in that area...^_^..just then, a sneeze is heard coming from the house..and then screams as they see Kuririn running for his life as Kushami(Evil Lunch) chases after him with a butcherknife..yelling at him,"GET YOUR STINKIN' HANDS OFF MY BEER!!"..Kamesennin reflects that Kuririn is starting to reach the wall of humanity (hee hee!) just as the sun is setting Kamesennin tells them that he just wants to test them on one more thing...he walks to the edge of the cliff, picks up a rock, takes out a permanent maker and scribbles the "Kame" symbol on it.Then, he throws it (very far) into the jungle..Goku asks him "Is this a test to see how far we can throw a rock?" and Kamesennin calmly explains that is is not a rock "throwing contest" but a rock "finding contest"...Kuririn doesn't know what to think (probably he's thinking how much he doesn't want to go find that rock he just threw ^_^;) The, Kamesennin explains how they shouldn't flatter themselves by thinking that retrieving an object in beneath them. And, that in fact, it requires stamina and concentration! ^_^. He also explains how the first one to find the rock gets dinner! (oh no!) And.... further more.. if the rock is not found within 30 minutes then neither of them gets to eat!
UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!!
Last updated: January 28th