A Dragon Ball is a fictional artifact from the manga and anime Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z, as well as Dragon Ball GT. They also appear in the Akira Toriyama manga Dragon Boy (the proto-Dragon Ball one-shot series). The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... A page from the Marmalade Boy manga, volume 1 (Japanese version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Son Goku Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール) is a Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama serialized in the weekly anthology magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump, from 1984 to 1995 and originally collected into 42 individual books called Tankobon. ... Dragon Ball Z logo (English manga). ... Dragon Ball GT (Japanese: ドラゴンボール GT Doragon Bōru Jī Tī) is the sequel to the anime Dragon Ball Z, but is the only series that is not based on a manga by Akira Toriyama. ... Dragon Boy is a brief (two issue) one-shot Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama published initially by Fresh Jump anthology magazine in 1983. ...

Dragonballs in "Dragon Ball" series

The Seven Dragonballs, as they appear in Dragon Ball GT

The Dragon Balls are orange, softball-sized, crystalline spheres with the ability to call forth a colossal dragon, which has the ability to grant a wish. Dragon Balls come in sets of seven with each ball containing the number of stars that signifies its respective number in the set. Dragonballs are difficult to find because they are scattered all over the Earth or few other planets each with own set, and deactivated for a year after every wish, disguising themselves as sand boulders and rocks, so to have the opportunity to summon a dragon one must travel all over the globe to retrieve them. As technology progressed this became somewhat easier, especially with the help of an electronic detector invented by the character Bulma. Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... A softball batter, catcher and umpire wait to receive a pitch Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches in circumference, is thrown by a player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a... Crystal (disambiguation) Insulin crystals A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. ... Chinese dragons The Chinese dragon (龍; pinyin: lóng; Cantonese: loong; Hokkien: leng) is a mythical creature. ... This page describes the planet Earth as seen in the fictional Dragon Ball universe (sometimes called Dragon World). ... Teenage Bulma in the 3rd Dragon Ball Movie, Mystical Adventure Bulma (Romaji: Buruma, full name commonly accepted as Bulma Briefs) is a fictional Human who is the Dragonball seriess longest appearing female character. ...

Restrictions on the Dragons powers are set by the relative capablities of the Dragonball set's creator, in Earth's case it was Kami-Sama. Earth's dragon, Shenron can grant a wish as long as it does not kill, create love or repeat a wish he previously granted. Legitimate wishes include eternal youth, bringing back a scorched forest or even an annihilated planet. Also, returning a person to life, although only if they meet certain criteria, like dying of unatural causes within a year ago, and each individual can only be brought back once. One obstacle is that the Eternal Dragon will grant the first wish uttered, by whom ever present.

Unlike the Dragonballs of Earth, the approximately soccer ball-sized Dragon Balls of Planet Namek summon a different dragon Porunga and can grant three wishes, due to their creation by Guru. Since the years on Namek are shorter (130 Earth days), they can also be used more frequently. When Dende became the Earth's guardian, and with his position created a new set of Dragonballs and Shenlong, giving him the power to grant 2 wishes. He was layed to rest when he fused into Goku's body, giving him ultimate power. The football as used in football/soccer. ... Panet Namek is also the name of a popular, but defunct, website about Dragon Ball. ... Porunga, the Namekian Dragon, also known as Super Shenron Porunga (ポルンガ) is a dragon character from the Dragon Ball manga/anime series. ...

In Dragon Ball GT, the concept of "Black Star Dragon Balls" is introduced. Later, it is implied many of the wishes granted through the series creates an equal amount of negative energy, and the overuse of them is extremely dangerous. This special set of Dragon Balls feature black stars (as opposed to dark orange ones) and can call forth a dragon, Black Smoke Shenron, with the ability to cast any wish, with no power restriction. After a wish has been cast with the Black Star Dragon Balls, the balls are scattered across "space" and if they are not collected again with in one year, the planet on which the wish was cast will explode. Attempting to understand the nature of space has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. ...

Like many aspects of GT, some fans consider them non-canonical. In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

Wishes Granted

DragonBall:

• Oolong wishes for a pair of panties.
• Goku wishes for Bora to be revived.
• Piccolo Daimao wishes for his youth to be restored.

DragonBall Z:

Saiyan Saga:

• Muten Roshi wishes for Gokuu to be revived.

Freeza Saga:

• Dende, Gohan and Kuririn wish for Piccolo's life to be restored. (granted by Porunga)
• Dende, Gohan and Kuririn wish for Piccolo to be transported to Planet Namek. (granted by Porunga)
• Mr. Popo wishes for all the Namekians that got killed back to life and to go to Earth except for Goku and Freeza.
• The Z-Fighter's lives to be restored.

Cell Saga:

• A wish to revive all people killed during the Cell saga.
• Trunks' life to be restored
• Kuririn wished for the self-destruct bombs in #17 and #18 to be removed.

Majin Buu Saga:

• Bulma's wish for all the good people who got killed to be revived.
• Dende's wished for the Earth to be restored along with all the Earthlings killed by Buu to be revived and forget about Majin Buu.
• Dende's wished for Goku's strength to be restored.

DragonBall GT:

• Pilaf's wish for Goku to be turned into a child.
• Vegeta-Baby's wish for a new Planet Plant to be created and located near Earth, complete with buildings and plants
• A wish to restore the Earth after being destroyed by the side effects of using the Black Star Dragonballs
• A wish to revive all the people who were killed in the Evil Shenlong Saga

DragonBall Z Movies: Movie 1: Dead Zone:

• Garlic Jr.'s wish for immortality.

Movie 2: World's Strongest Guy:

• Dr. Koichin wishes for Dr. Wheelo to be released from his prison.

Movie 3: Tree of Might:

• Bulma, Gohan and Kuririn's wished to restore the forest.

Movie 13: Dragon Fist Explosion:

• Goku's wishes to unlock a box Gohan and Videl found (Tapion was in it).

Dragon Balls in "Dragon Boy"

In the manga Dragon Boy, Dragon Balls are small balls that appear very similar to the balls in the Dragon Ball series. However, instead of granting wishes, they can be opened using ki energy to release a small baby dragon that does not grant wishes. Dragon Boy is a brief (two issue) one-shot Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama published initially by Fresh Jump anthology magazine in 1983. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

In the video game series Worms there is an attack called "Dragon Ball", being very similar to the Kamehameha Wave. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Worms is a series of turn-based computer games with the common theme of players each controlling a small platoon of worms across a two-dimensional (and, in more recent games, three-dimensional), deformable landscape. ... These are the weapons available in the Worms series of games. ... Kamehameha also referred to as the Kamehameha Wave, is an energy attack in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z and the anime Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. The term was coined by Dragon Ball author Akira Toriyama, whose wife suggested the name in honor of...