He said that while the author has "a sublime combination of Looney Tunes-style classic humor and dirty jokes," the best part of Dragon Ball is the fight scenes.

The long battle with Freeza ends when Goku transforms into a legendary Super Saiyan ( 超サイヤ人, Sūpā Saiya-jin) and defeats him. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku's help (and his super-strength)! But rather than suffer the indignity of defeat, Cell has a last desperate option—self-destruct and take the planet with him! For the 10th anniversary of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006, close to 79,000 Japanese fans voted Dragon Ball the third greatest manga of all time. Jump Super Stars • Heroes: Victory Mission • Heroes: Charisma Mission • Heroes: Ultimate Charisma Mission • Discross Jinryoku God Max!Ian Jones-Quartey, a producer of the American animated series Steven Universe, is a fan of Dragon Ball and Dr. During Dragon Ball 's initial run in Weekly Shōnen Jump, the manga magazine reached an average circulation of 6. Now in his Perfect Form, Cell is stronger than any creature alive—even the muscled-out new form of the mighty Saiyans.

Including it on a list of "10 Essential Manga That Should Belong in Every Comic Collection", Matthew Meylikhov of Paste also praised the manga over the anime as an entirely different and more "involved experience. He wrote that "You come to know and care for the characters more intimately, and the joy and wonder of watching them fight, learn and grow throughout the series improves tenfold. A tankōbon collecting all three chapters was published on November 2, 2017, and has 240,000 copies in print.Gokū's immediate question is how they eat the cloud, but Kame Sennin immediately debunks this idea, telling Gokū that Kintoun isn't a cloud to eat, it's a cloud to ride. Torishima said he chose the novel largely because it was a free intellectual property, but also because its Chinese setting was not common in manga at the time and would make it both unique and differentiate it from Dr.