Bulma and Goku: The start of a legend The beginning of Dragonball by Dan

The first of many DB essays

There was one anime that rocked the world that changed the landscape we saw it in. It was about a space alien that came to earth, was raised by a kindly old man in order to be a defender of mankind and fight against tyrannical space emperors, lab-engineered genetic monsters from the future, and even gods intent on destroying the world in their mad plots…