Vegeta being the threat, the Androids being the threat, and the Tenkaichi Budokai). Each of these story arcs has a short introductory storyline where it initially appears as though some other character will be the villain being fought or where the story will be going down a different route before eventually settling on the main antagonist (i.e. There are three story arcs: concerning Freeza (ch. They mainly just consist of flashy clashes, energy blasts, and transforming to new forms. The fights themselves aren't actually super impressive or anything. The character designs are cool-looking and some of the characters are very iconic and well-written (such as Hercule or Android 17). It's a decently solid fighting manga that's very easy to binge-read and get drawn into. This might be a bit of a hot take, but I think the original Dragon Ball run was better than the zed-when it was a gag manga, when Goku's level of strength was still comparable to a lot of people around fem, and when the dragon ball quests consisted of actual effort in tracking down the balls and had more entertaining wishes than just simply 'revive peeps.' That's not to say that Dragon Ball Z doesn't have value, because it certainly does.
