Dragon Ball Z Dragon Ball Z (Japanes, Doragon Bōru Zetto) is the label of the anime series by Dragon Ball, which deals with volumes 17 (Son Goku's brother) to 42 (The Farewell). The manga never got the "Z" in its name, but it still shapes the franchise decisively in its marketing and no less does the corresponding part of the manga deal with exactly the same story - with additional episodes as usual in the anime version to give the book template time to finish. In principle, due to the equality of content and marketing, "Dragon Ball Z" is associated with the history of the last 26 volumes, whether manga or anime. After her everything from Dragon Ball received a postfix, be it also under "Z" or the following series "Grand Tour" (GT), (Z) Kai and Super. The films as well as the film versions of the Dragon Ball s