The Complete Dragon Ball Series Joins Crunchyroll
Believe it or not, despite Crunchyroll hyping itself as the ultimate anime app, there was no point when you could watch the entire Dragon Ball series on it — until now. The streamer has announced the acquisition of the complete rights, which means every Dragon Ball series is now available to watch there.
The list includes all 153 episodes and five seasons of Dragon Ball, all 291 episodes and nine seasons of Dragon Ball Z, and 64 episodes and two seasons of the non-canon Dragon Ball GT. They join Dragon Ball Super, which was already on Crunchyroll, to make a complete set (we must note, though, that for some reason the sub version of DBZ still isn’t there).
Series Synopsis
Dragon Ball
Goku is a strange, bushy-tailed boy who spends his days hunting and eating—until he meets Bulma, a bossy beauty with boys on the brain.
Dragon Ball Z
Goku—the strongest fighter on the planet—is all that stands between humanity and villains from the darkest corners of space.
Dragon Ball GT
The Dragon Balls have been scattered to the ends of earth, and if Goku can’t gather them in a year, Earth will meet final catastrophe.
The story of why this is happening is a long one — it isn’t your typical “we went out and bought the rights” situation. The Spark Notes summary is that over the past few years, Warner Bros bought Crunchyroll, AT&T bought Warner Bros, AT&T regretted buying Warner Bros and began selling off pieces of it to stave off their debt collectors, Sony bought Crunchyroll, and Sony already had Funimation but considered Crunchyroll a stronger brand. So the new owners of Dragon Ball on streaming are…the same owners as before.
Check out the Dragon Ball series on Crunchyroll today.
Bulma
March 15, 2022 @ 6:52 pm
Most fans skipped Dragon Ball and starts with Dragonball Z. They don’t know what they had been missing because the first series have the fun sense of adventure instead of just being a Battle Shounen it turned into