Dragon Ball may well be the pivotal series in opening the West up to anime in the 1990s.
Even if you’ve never seen a page of the manga or an episode of one of the series, odds are you’ve seen Goku’s spiky hair, caught a reference to Super Saiyan transformations, or heard some otherwise inexplicably passionate reference to the number 9000.
But let’s say you’re one of those people who haven’t read or watched Dragon Ball.
You may feel too intimidated to start.
There are hundreds of manga volumes and even more episodes of four different TV shows to plow through.
If only there were a way to get a taste of what the characters and the action are like without overloading on too much story.
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