The Rabbitte Perspective

Back To The Drawing-Board Unequivocally, while many outside audiences arguably see it as a series full of characters staring each other down, powering-up and fighting one another in a grandiose manner, there's a reason why Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball  is seen as one of the best anime show's of all time and why so many Shōnen's of similar ilk try to emulate its formula. Indeed, from its vast collection of episodes & different stories, to the 149 video game titles that have sold over 44 million units and even an holiday in Japan called "Goku Day" which is celebrated every year on the 9th May, Dragon Ball's popularity is certainly unrivalled and it's not just down to its lauded battles between different alien races and literal gods. As imperative as the implied East Asian martial arts is in abstracting Goku's ascend from a beginner to a master, it's the shows inherent way of moulding different cultural stories and ideologies together