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| Introduction |
This is a brief guide to the events in Dragonball and Dragonball Z, and their corresponding episode numbers. This is not an episode-by-episode guide, but rather an event-by-event guide.
The guide is fairly accurate, although in a couple of places it is a little sketchy and I make no claims to complete accuracy. If there are any glaring mistakes or errors, or any vital events I have missed out, let me know.
Please also note that, although the
guide doesn't mention every single event or surprise in the series, it
does contain spoilers, so do not read on if you want to watch the series
and be surprised...
| Dragonball |
19-25: The 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. The 8 finalists: Goku, Kuririn, Yamucha, Namu, Bacterian, Giran, Ranfan, and Jackie Chung
26-28: The final of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. Goku vs Jackie Chung
29: Namu, with Goku's aid, attempts to get a steady supply of water coming into his village
35-42: Goku attempts to get a Dragonball from Muscle Tower in the north. Muscle Tower is the base of Commander White of Red Ribbon. Here Goku meets Snow, Hatchan, and Murasaki (the purple ninja)
43-45: Goku's Dragon Radar is broken, so he travels to the West City to find Buruma in order to fix it. Together with Yamucha, Puaru, and Oolong, they have a run-in with Huskie, a thief working for Red Ribbon, after Goku's dragonballs.
46-57: Goku teams up with Buruma and Kuririn to find a Dragonball in the southern ocean. This Dragonball is also sought after by Commander Blue of Red Ribbon. This chase culminates in Penguin Village, where Goku and Commander Blue run into the cast of Dr. Slump
58-64: Goku travels to the sacred land of Karin, hoping that the Dragonball here will be the four-star dragonball. Assassin Tao Pai Pai is hired by Red Ribbon to stop Goku and steal his Dragonballs. Goku climbs Karin Tower where he meets Karin, the cat-god that lives on the top, and is trained here in order to defeat Tao Pai Pai.
65-68: With his Dragonballs stolen, Goku travels to Red Ribbon HQ to retrieve them all, and singlehandedly takes on the entire Red Ribbon Army.
84-96: The 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. The 8 Finalists: Goku, Kuririn, Yamucha, Jackie Chung, Panputt, Wolf-man, Chaozu and TenShinHan
97-101: The final of the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. Goku vs Tenshinhan
112-122: The now-young Piccolo, after destroying Shen-Lon, attempts to take over the world and throw it into a state of chaos and darkness. Goku trains with Lord Karin once more, after which Tenshinhan and Goku fight Piccolo at the King's Castle.
133-142: The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. The 8 Finalists: Goku, Kuririn, Yamucha, Tenshinhan, Tao Pai Pai, Chi Chi, Shen, and Ma Junior (Piccolo)
143-148: The final of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. Goku vs Ma Junior
| Dragonball Z |
6-21: Goku, in the afterlife, seeks out KaiouSama, the God of the Northern Galaxy, in order to train for the upcoming Saiyajin invasion. At the same time, on earth, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamucha and Yajirobe train with God, and Gohan is trained by Piccolo
23-28: Vegeta and Nappa, the Saiyajins arrive on earth. Tenshinhan, Chaozu, Kuririn, Yamucha, Piccolo and Gohan try to hold them off as best they can.
29-35: Goku arrives on the scene to defeat the Saiyajins. At first he bids Gohan and Kuririn to leave the area, but they later return to aid him in his fight against Vegeta
44-60: Gohan & co. arrive on Namic, as does Vegeta. The two parties, and a third, led by the powerful King Freeza, all do their best to gather the seven Namic Dragonballs. Goku makes his way to Namic.
61-74: The Ginew Special Unit, Freeza's secret army, are called to the scene to deal with Vegeta, Gohan and Kuririn. Goku arrives on Namic in time to assist in this fight.
75-84 Dende, with Gohan and Kuririn calls up the Namic Dragon. Piccolo is ressurected and brought to Namic. This leads to a confrontation of Freeza vs Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan and Kuririn. Goku heals in Freeza's spaceship from the battle with Ginew.
85-94: Goku is healed. The inevitable battle begins. Goku vs Freeza
95-107: The fight continues, with Goku now fighting as a Super Saiyajin
117: A filler story about Kuririn and his more-emptyheaded-than-Goku girlfriend, Maron.
124: The training for the androids' appearance begins.
125: Chi Chi forces Goku and Piccolo to take driving lessons.
126-132: Androids #19 and #20 show up. The prove to be easy opponents however, but Trunks shows up again and says these are not the androids that caused the problems in the future. Android #20, Dr. Gero, escapes. Goku's heart disease starts kicking in and he has to be taken home to be cured.
133-136: Dr. Gero awakens Androids #17 and #18, who in turn awaken Android #16. These androids do pose a problem for the Z Warriors. However, their one aim is to destroy Son Goku.
137-141: Piccolo flies off to remerge with God, whilst the androids search for Son Goku. Buruma and Trunks find a second copy of Trunks' time machine in this timeline, and the shell of the creature who operated the second one.
152-158: Cell has absorbed #17 and now only needs #18 to reach his Perfect self. Kuririn has a controller to turn off #18, but has problems bringing himself to turning her off. Goku and Gohan take their turn to train in the Room of Spirit and Time.
159-165: Cell gains his perfect form, and proves too powerful for either Trunks or Vegeta. Cell announces his plan to hold a martial arts tournament where all the greatest warriors on the planet can fight him. Gohan, in training, succeeds in achieving his Super Saiyajin form.
166-173: Lead-up to the cell game. Goku has a picnic with his family, and gathers the dragonballs. Dende, called to be the new God of Earth, reactivates Shen Lon and the Dragonballs.
174-175: The Cell Game begins. Introducing Mr. Satan, and several other useless martial artists.
176-180: Goku fights Cell
181-188: Gohan's fight with Cell results in Gohan going Super Saiyajin 2. Cell gets annoyed and decides to blow up the planet, but Goku teleports him away to KaiouSama's worldlet, which is then blown up, along with Cell, Kaiou, Bubbles, Gregory, and Goku.
189-193: Cell proves he's not defeated by returning to earth. His aim now is to destroy the earth. This results in the final fight between Gohan and Cell
194: Trunks returns to the future and destroys his versions of Cell, #17 and #18
196-197: A martial arts tournament is held in heaven, organised by Dai-KaiouSama, and the four Kaious.
198-199: The final of the martial arts tournament in heaven (AnoyoIchi Budokai). Goku vs Paikuhan
208-213: Goku comes to earth, and the childrens' rounds of the TenkaIchi Budokai begin. Final: Goten vs Trunks.
214-216: The adult rounds of the Tenkaichi Budokai begin. KaiouShin shows up.
222-227: The Budokai continues with the few contestants left (including #18, Mr. Satan, and Mighty Mask (Goten/Trunks) ). Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and KaiouShin enter Babidi's ship, where they have meet a series of monsters, a different one on each level of the ship. On the third level, Gohan fights Dabura.
228-231: Vegeta is possessed by Babidi, and fights Goku, while Babidi gathers the energy of the two
232-236: Majin Buu is awakened, and fights Dabura, KaiouShin, and Gohan.
237-240: Vegeta, after defeating Goku, fights Majin Buu. He explodes himself as he sees it as the only way to defeat Buu. Bideru, with most of the non-fighting characters, searches for the Dragonballs to ressurect those killed at the Budokai arena by Vegeta. Goten and Trunks are taken to God's palace to rest.
241-248: Babidi and Buu continue to terrorise the world by turning its inhabitants into food. Gohan is taken to KaiouShin's world, and starts training with the Zed Sword. After a short fight in Super Saiyajin 3 mode, against Buu, Goku trains Goten and Trunks in the art of Fusion, but his time on earth is used up and he must return to the afterlife.
249-250: Goku makes his way to KaiouShin's world, where he finds Gohan training with the Zed Sword. Gohan breaks the sword, and an old KaiouShin appears. Gohan begins training with the old KaiouShin
251: Gotenks (Goten and Trunks fused) attemps to fight Buu
252-254: Mr. Satan befriends Buu, but the antics of a couple of stupid people anger Buu and cause all his evil energy to manifest into a new Buu, who eats the first one.
255-259: New Buu finds his way up to God's palace, as Gotenks trains inside the Room of Spirit and Time. Buu is led to the room, where the fight continues.
260-262: Piccolo destroys the entrance to the room, but Buu, followed by Gotenks and Piccolo, manages to escape, and the fight continues on the outside.
263-265: Gohan appears after training with the old KaiouShin, and fights Buu. Buu absorbs Gotenks and Piccolo.
266-267: Old KaiouShin swaps his life with Goku, and Goku returns to the battlescene. He attemps to fuse with Gohan using the Potara earrings, but Gohan fails to catch his ear. Gohan is absorbed by Buu.
268-286: Vegeta appears, brought back to earth by Uranai Baba. Vegeta fuses with Goku (Vegeto). Buu eventually absorbs Vegeto, butwith the use of a barrier, Goku and Vegeta find themselves alive inside Buu's body. They rescue Gohan, Goten, Trunks and Piccolo, and disconnect Fat Buu's body from New Buu's, and proceed to escape from Buu. Yet another Buu is formed, this time Buu's original form. He destroys the earth, but KaiouShin appears in time to bring Goku, Vegeta, Dende, Mr. Satan, and Mr. Satan's dog to the KaiouShin world. Buu follows, and here the final battle takes place.
287: The battle is over, and things start going back to normal. Fat Buu has trouble adjusting to life on earth, and Bideru has become Gohan's Great Saiyaman partner.
288: The DBZ team have a party, but no-one seems to have any idea where Goku is.