2.Dragonball Z had been a number one ratings hit in Japan, France, Mexico, Spain, Hong Kong and the USA before being introduced to Australia and New Zealand in the year 2000
3. Dragonball Z started as a comic book series in Japan in 1984.
4. There are 13 animated Dragonball Z movies and two specials
5. Before the Saiyans took over the planet Vegeta it was known as Planet Plant!
6. Goku's home address is 439 East District
7. Krillin has been Goku's best friend since they trained under Master Roshi as kids
8. Gohan and Dende are both voiced by a girls
9. According to Police Records Bulma's ID Number is SSC 41453
10. There are 187 fights from the beginning of Dragonball to the end of Dragonball Z.
11. Bulma changes her hair style 15 times from Dragonball to the end of Dragonball Z
12. Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragonball Z, originally planned to end the series after the Frieza saga but he was persuaded to go on.
13. After the Cell Saga Akira Toriyama wanted to make Gohan the main character but the fans wanted Goku to be the main character. This is probably the reason that Goku dies during the fight with Cell.
14. Akira Toriyama's favourit form of Cell is Semi-Perfect which is probably the reason the Cell returns to his Semi-Perfet state when Gohan punches him.
15. In Japan the comic came out at 12 pages a week and then the TV series followed the Sunday after . One episode of Dragonball screened every Sunday at 7pm from 1986 til 1996
16. The very first Android created by Dr Gero to be seen was not in the Android saga let alone Dragonball Z. The first android seen was Android 8 in the Red Ribbon saga of Dragonball. Android 8 was considered a failure as he didn't like to fight (like Android 16)
17. When Yamcha, Tien, Piccolo, Chaozu, Oolong, Puar and Ox-King first appeared (in Dragonball) they were villains.
18. Master Roshi owns the largest collection of porn while Dr Briefs, father of Bulma, also has a large porn collection.
19. Nappa, Vegeta's partner when he come sto Earth for the first time, is over fifty years old. Nappa is actually seen with hair, in the Bardock special,
20. Akira Toriyama got the name of Goku's trademark attack, the Kamehameha, from the name of a 19th century Hawai'an king named King Kamehameha!
21. Another one of Akira Toriyama's original plans was to make Android 19 and 20 the main androids (in other words there would be no Android 16, 17 or 18) but his editors were dissapointed that the fearsome androids were a fat clown and a old man. This is why he introduced Android 17 and 18 but the editors still weren't happy that now two kids were the fearsome ones and so Cell was born.
22. Namekians are either warriors or healers. Piccolo and Nail are warriors while Dende is a healer. Additionally Namekians are neither males nor females and they reproduce asexually.
23. Chi Chi wanted to name Gohan, Einstein
24. The announcer at the Cell Games actually has a name which was revealed during his first appearance, his name is Jimmy Firecracker
25. Dragonball Z has a New Zealand connection. In Japanese DBZ oe of Frieza's henchmen is named Kiwi as in Kiwifruit (all of Frieza's henchman were named after fruits). When Dragonball Z was translated into English the character of Kiwi was renamed Kui but the connection remained as Kui is the Maori word for grandmother...
26. Another New Zealand connection to Dragonball Z is through King Kai. Kai is the Maori word for food. King Food! hahaha
27. Namekians are based on slugs and snails which is why they can regenerate limbs. Their names are also named after Slugs and snails such as Nail (snail), Dende (dendenmushi, Japanese for snail), Lord Slug and Cargo (Dende's brother named after Escargot which is French for snail)