Madman Entertainment is getting ready to work more with the original Dragon Ball Z anime property and start 2021 off right for a lot of fans. The distributor previously had three seasonal sets scheduled for January 13th, 2020 for the show in its 4:3 format for the steelbook design. The sets will cover 39/35/33 episodes respectively and are priced at $89.95 AUD each. They’ll be bilingual in nature and run with four discs per set in the 4:3 format.
Now, they’ve added two more sets that will arrive on April 10th, 2021 with the sixth and seventh sets. They’ll have another 28 and 25 episodes respectively and priced at $79.95 AUD.
Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1984 and 1995 for twenty-two volumes between the two series, the book comes from Akira Toriyama and has been a perennial strong property.
Plot concept: Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama’s action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven “Dragon Balls.” If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku’s help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime…