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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1202814" data-attributes="member: 6929">Technically, DBZ the toon is based on DBZ the manga by Akira Toriyama. Manga = comic, if you will - except unlike Western comics, it's drawn and written by one guy. So I reckon it counts as a book. (A profusely illustrated book, but comics are nevertheless literature. Which could open up all manner of other sources for fights, considering how many comics revolve around violence, but I'll leave that for now.)It's also a little grodier in parts. The fight between Gohan and Cell's miniature duplicates? Unless they produced a specially censored version just for USAmerican TV, the animated version features Gohan beating them so bad they disintegrate into bursts of dust or... something, the palette got all funny (probably because he was exceeding some relativistic speed limit).In the manga, there's no burst of dust. There are exploding heads, flying eyeballs, and general splatter each time he touches them. It's not pretty.The plot also moves faster in the manga. For the record. I'm told the anime was produced at roughly the same time, so they had to slow it down while he spent time actually creating the story. (Comics take a long time for one guy to make, compared to a 30-minute cartoon with who knows how many people on staff.)Anyway, that's just me being pedantic - or educating the populace.</blockquote>