Dragon Ball Z started out as a very peaceful story with Goku the star of the comic series training himself for fitness and strength the way the ancient people used to. Goku was not one of your usual humans but was actually from another planet, a planet that the gods lived on which gave him certain powers. As a boy Goku had to have his tale chopped off because this was the source of his angry power so now his full potential as a warrior was diminished until some of his friends reveal the story of his childhood and then unleash his ultimate fighting power.

A Japanese Manga film is about Goku and his tricky mates looking for the 7 magical dragon balls which will give them one wish which is to destroy the bad guys before they devour the world. By traveling on a magic cloud over the lands and running very fast these little adventurers find the right number of dragon balls and then save the world from it impending doom. The start out by training for some martial arts competitions where they end up finding out that the bad guys that are winning are really bad and that somebody has to stop them.

If you like most of the Japanese animations which most people have grown up with one or two over the years then you will most likely like the Dragon Ball Z series as well as the movies and following series. There is a great deal of violence in the series that have the fights in them including some characters that die which is unusual for cartoon characters to die. There is a heaven however which means that the characters are not gone for long but even so if you are letting you young kids watch this program then you is likely to have them ask about death and fighting.