There is perhaps no manga and anime franchise more synonymous with and foundational to the battle shonen genre as Dragon Ball. While creator Akira Toriyama certainly intended a more lighthearted, adventurous romp on the outset, the series quickly turned away from gags and more toward increasingly high-stakes fights including tournaments and deadly villains of scaling threat levels. This has since influenced four decades' worth of battle shonen series, either in-house from Shueisha like Naruto and Black Clover, or competing publications with series like Gachiakuta.
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