Dragonballz is the story of a group of fighters, THE Z FORCE. They live on Earth and fight for good, against evil, or THE BAD GUYS.

Now you know where the Z comes from in DragonBallZ, but "what about the DragonBall" I hear you ask. Well in DragonBallZ there are 7 magical balls called 'Dragon Balls', go figure, and if all 7 are collected together then a Dragon appears and a wish can be granted!

Right so there are magical balls which grant wishes, and bad guys involved, what would a bad guy wish for? Eternal life of course! This is exactly what the Z Force are trying to stop, or so Akira Toriyama would have you believe, as later on in the series the show basically becomes about the Z Force coming across more powerfull bad guys and having to become more powerfull themselves!

In Dragonball Z the way in which people become more powerfull is by simply training, you know, just jogging and stuff like we would do, but also by fighting and gaining experience! The way in which you can tell how powerfull someone is in DragonBallZ is by they're power level. At the begginning of the show power levels are at around 1000, and that was quite high, but at the end power levels exeed 90,000,000.

DragonBallZ is an ANIME show which is basically Japanese animation. It originated from the MANGA (Japenese comic) series DragonBall, which was about the main character in DragonBallZ, Goku (on the left in the pic), who you will find out about in the character section. It was about him as a child going on adventures and such!