Dragon Ball (animation)

Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール, Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese animated television series, produced by Toei Animation. The Dragon Ball television series produced by Toei Animation is an adaptation of the first two eras of the Dragon Ball comic series. The contents spans the first 194 chapters of the manga of the same name created by Akira Toriyama, which were published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It is followed by the sequel Dragon Ball Z.

The contents were published from 1984 to 1999. The anime is composed of 153 episodes that broadcast on Fuji TV from February 26, 1986, to April 19, 1989. It was broadcast in 81 countries worldwide. The series aired initially in early 90s.

In United-States of America, Funimation has the rights to the anime, and streams the anime in both its English dub, and Japanese dub on its website.