Talk:List of Dragon Ball episodes

Split
I've split this article into six articles. It was getting die too long. Superior1 00:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Serious Clean up
I've tagged this page for merging, as the first step to giving the Dragon Ball episode lists some serious clean up. There is no valid reason for splitting out the Japanese and dubbed versions of the series, and such a split is highly inappropriate. The episode list needs to be completely reformatted, with the original/dubs together for each subseries. See other featured episode lists for the proper format this list needs to be brought up to, such as List of Naruto episodes. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 23:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Compare the episode 56 description: "Blue meets someone who resembles his little brother and attacks Toro and his partners" with this no less verified (and no more originally researched) description from the original: "Blue refers to the young-boy like creature who fixes the car as "his type" and falls in love." Blue even has the pink bubble background. In one version the main villain is a gay pedophile and in the other he is hmmm... completely not. The post original air date versions are rife with these kind of edits, hence the poor reception. The DB Wiki-history has many well verified versions that dealt more accurately with this subject but they seem to get washed away. At least make sure no major plot devices introduced after the original air date are passed off as from the original I think this last can be accomplished easily enough and with a relatively light hand. Mitsypoo (talk) 05:15, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Fixing Pu-erh's name would also be good... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.42.220 (talk) 04:08, 6 December 2010 (UTC)


 * really needs some help with section 1.9, i tried to get it so the section id not before section 3 as it appears now, however i couldnt find the error in the code that is making it do thatJreidus (talk) 06:46, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Dragon Ball Kai
The series is out now, and we have it re-edited with new Episode titles. Should it be included here? DemonRin (talk) 10:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Only one episode has aired right now...not sure an episode list needs to be started yet. But if so, yeah, would go here until there are actually enough aired to warrant splitting it. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 16:18, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, if we're talking about Episode titles, two episodes are out right now. (The one episode that aired and the next episode's title as revealed in the Preview), so maybe starting next week we can start the list because that will make Three? actually, we have 4 if you count the VJump article that was printed a few weeks ago. DemonRin (talk) 14:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there a reliable source that lists the airdates/titles? -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:51, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * It's an article from the Japanese Magazine VJump, so I dont think you'd deem it reliable.DemonRin (talk) 00:45, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Why not? Its a real magazine, right? -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 01:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Of course it is, it's one of the sister magazines to Weekly JUMP, Here's a scan from it http://www.daizex.com/general/tidbits/images/kai/jump_scan_05.jpg. DemonRin (talk) 01:45, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * That gives a 403 error. As long as you have the page number (and article title/author if its an article; or feature name if its a general listing of shows), nothing wrong with that. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 01:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, here it is http://www.worlddbz.net76.net/Image/kai02.png - Bottom right hand Corner. It lists the first 4 episodes and their air dates. It's a General "Focus on new Anime" section that's focussed on Dragon Ball Kai this time.  Could I add these now?DemonRin (talk) 03:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Please provide the page number, volume/issue number, and date from the magazine so it can be cited. And author if there is one. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * It was The April 2009 Issue of V-Jump, Page 329 and the Author of the blurb's name was "Kondo" Henshuu Chou. It appears to be in part a Pen name for him though. DemonRin (talk) 06:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Great, thanks. And just to confirm...the summary for ep 1 is your own, right, and not translated from the magazine? -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 13:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I typed up the Summary, is that ok?98.165.116.30 (talk) 06:57, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yep, long as its your own words, and not from somewhere else, its cool. I cleaned up the spelling and grammar a little though :) -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 15:54, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

This Page Needs to Be Deleted or Merged With the Individual Articles
Wow! I can't imagine that a page could be so long! Anyway, I'm new to editing on Wikipedia, but I do know that this page is way too long. I should note that even though each anime series is based on the original manga, but they are still different shows. This page needs to be deleted because there is already a page on all four of the series. Besides, Kai is pretty much in its own universe since it's not a part of the original broadcast. Hope my feedback helps a bunch! D4c3nt3n0 (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, this was being discussed elsewhere and this list is being deleted to move the original here and just let the four episode lists stand alone due to the issues with the double transclusion and unnecessary nature of having a single all emcompassing list. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 00:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Episode Descriptions
The last edit summary didn't make much sense, where can the episode descriptions be found now? --Darktower 1  2  3 4  5  20:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * In the page history here. The most recent revision I can see is this one. Protonk (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * List of Dragon Ball episodes (series) was moved here, and that broke the template. I've fixed it now and all summaries should be viewable. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 21:01, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Didn't really know what the end result should look like. Protonk (talk) 21:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries :) I totally forgot about it myself and I helped make the template LOL -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 21:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay great, thanks. --Darktower 1  2  3 4  5  01:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

It should be noted that between episode 79 and 80, Son Goku magically regrows his tail, and no mention is made of it in either the English dub, or this article. Its as if it never even broke off 5 episodes previously. --User:matrix3509 --24.167.23.88 (talk) 05:29, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Japanese vs English versions
It seems that these plot summaries are not based on the original Japanese versions. Many minor details developed solely for the for the dub version are mentioned in the episode summaries. Likewise many significant details from the original version are excluded. This should be corrected. To that end I hope a reliable, third-party, published source can be found. It seems odd one hasn't. Mitsypoo (talk) 00:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of Dragon Ball episodes
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of Dragon Ball episodes's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Refeerences broke
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Episode 22
in the article it says its called "yamcha vs jackie chun" but if you watch the episode its called "quarterfinals continue" whats with the inconsistency? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.126.189 (talk) 05:59, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

episode 68
shouldnt it be listed as apart of the commander red saga? i mean if the division between the commander red and boba sagas was wlightly debatable id understand, but there is nothing about boba in this episode, and it clearly closes out the red ribbon storyline, with the last dragonball acting as a cliff hanger to usher in the boba saga —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.126.189 (talk) 00:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I strongly agree! Episode 68 should be part of the Commander Red Saga since that episode concludes the Red Ribbon Army story. Why is that episode in the Fortuneteller Baba Saga anyway? That episode doesn't even feature nor mention Fortuneteller Baba. --120.28.178.93 (talk) 15:20, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I just watched over both 67 and 68 to confirm what I read above and both of them are correct. Therefore I have moved 68 back into the Commander Red saga. --108.181.34.77 (talk) 11:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Irrelevant. If we're going to divide things up in the pretend "sagas" that Funimation released the show in, then we have to stick to that. That was the whole point after all. Though, personally I think that we should do away with these pretend "sagas" and "seasons", and just present it as-is: as a show that aired one episode a week for a decade.Linkdude20002001 (talk) 00:51, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

North American airdates
Shouldn't the airdates of the first 13 episodes reflect the fact that they were aired in 1995-96. Rather then the reairing. Since that was their original air date. Otonabee (talk) 16:12, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * is there a ealible source for it? if not no-- Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 18:03, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The source that is currently used for this very article explicetly states the first 13 episodes were aired in 1995, though gives no exact date. If there are no objections in the near future I will update the dates of these first 13 episodes to reflect this. Otonabee (talk) 22:19, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup
Shouldn't the episodes be organized by seasons and not sagas, like the others? VegetaSaiyan (talk) 23:18, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Saga Names, and Original English Airdates
So, my edits to correct the names of the "sagas" were reverted. As were my edits to...well, not "correct" since we don't know when the first 13 episodes actually aired... But the page at least shouldn't LIE to people. Should we put "1995" instead?Linkdude20002001 (talk) 16:41, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Corresponding Chapters
Is it all right if I added a column for Corresponding Chapters? For example, episode 8 corresponds with chapters 13, 14, and 15. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.93.117.124 (talk) 04:19, 15 September 2016 (UTC) --97.93.117.124 (talk) 04:19, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Split proposal
I think that we have to split this list, as well as the List of Dragon Ball Z Kai episodes and the List of Dragon Ball Super episodes, since they are getting very long. We can split them into seasons, in a similar way to the Dragon Ball Z seasons. Thoughts? -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  19:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

If they are split, I don't think that Kai should be divided up as it is at the moment; I don't know where those "Seasons" come from, but there's no source and they don't seem to line up with broadcast, production or home video. Also, bear in mind that Super has been split up into story arcs but not seasons, even for Funimation's home video releases; therefore, a split version would be something like List of Dragon Ball Super episodes (1-46) or Dragon Ball Super (Universe Survival saga). LostTL (talk) 17:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't think splitting the article is necessary because it's not that long, in my opinion. But if it is split, then splitting it by seasons, defined by the Japanese DVD releases, sounds like the best approach, similar to DBZ's episode list (even though that uses the FUNimation DVD listing). I would assume this article was categorized like that too, except it doesn't say that, and it's inaccurately titled anyways. No idea why the arc where Son Goku fights in the Muscle Tower is called "Red Ribbon Army Saga" or why episode 68 was part of the Fortuneteller Baba Saga. From what I remember, FUNimation includes that entire chunk of the series, from Muscle Tower to Baba, as "Red Ribbon Army Saga". Basically, the article can be organized better, is all I'm saying. A split can help that. 2600:1700:4AC1:2B0:7CD0:E585:9B75:CBD6 (talk) 22:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I created articles for the Dragon Ball seasons. I took Toei's division as basis (and not the current division of the list of episodes, which corresponds to FUNimation. However, all of them need sources (to the point that season 4 was moved to a Draft:Dragon Ball (season 4) for the lack of sources. I think I will not continue with the other series (Kai and Super) until the issue with the DB seasons is resolved. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  00:53, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: all articles have been moved to drafts: Draft:Dragon Ball (season 1), Draft:Dragon Ball (season 2), Draft:Dragon Ball (season 3), Draft:Dragon Ball (season 4), and Draft:Dragon Ball (season 5). We cannot proceed with the split of this list unless we can get sources for the seasons. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  01:21, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't think that the Japanese DVDs split the series into "seasons". The single-disc releases are simply labeled 1-26.

Also, while the "Seasons" Funimation used for Dragon Ball Z corresponded with the "sagas" they split the series into for their initial VHS/DVD releases, this isn't the case for Dragon Ball, DB GT or DBZ Kai. The second Season of Dragon Ball ends three episodes into the "Red Ribbon Army Saga", for example - and to make things more complicated the UK releases used the five-season format to compile the existing Saga DVDs, so different episode divisions were used that do correspond to the Sagas. LostTL (talk) 13:29, 10 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Strongly Oppose – The article hasn't exceeded the readable prose limit. And even then, we have much longer episode lists elsewhere. It's better if we keep everything together in the same place for our readers, if we can. I think that we would actually be better served by moving this article to Dragon Ball Z Kai, since this article is currently a de-facto article for the said TV series, including information on the show itself in addition to the episodes. Same thing for the Dragon Ball super episode list. The article isn't all that long at the moment. If/when that TV show resumes airing, we can consider splitting up that episode list then. But as of right now, both articles should not be split up. Especially not the article for DBZ Kai.  Light and Dark2000  🌀 (talk) 21:54, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

"Sudden changes"
You didn't explain to me how I was "unclear on these certain edits, when all I did was sort it by "season" by American DVD sets, like what has been sorted in List of Dragon Ball Z episodes. If I can't have 5 seasons instead of nine, as you reverted it to, then can we at least re-organize the Z episodes into its own individual Sagas instead of clump them together? TheMaxM1 (talk) 15:20, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This list was going be the DVDs of the sagas separately released in the early 2000s for like a long while. The organization of the episodes in the season sets seemed more jumbled. However, the organization can be changed to the one shown on the season sets if there is an agreeable consensus. BaldiBasicsFan (talk) 23:35, 28 May 2024 (UTC)