After sci-fi fans just celebrated their second Christmas with Star Wars Day, now it’s the turn of fans of the Japanese animation genre. Son Goku Day is celebrated in Japan on May 9. Amazon is honoring the messy little monkey boy with a huge home theater sale.
Numerous boxes from the “Dragon Ball” series “Dragon Ball”, “Dragon Ball Z”, “Dragon Ball Z Kai”, “Dragon Ball GT” and “Dragon Ball Super” are offered. The discounts are impressive. Depending on the season or the movie, you save between 25 percent and almost 50 percent.
Goku week on Amazon: these are the offers
If you missed the exciting adventures of Son Goku and his friends, now is your chance to catch up. The original series begins “Dragon Ball“*, of which you get the first season 30 percent cheaper. It follows “Dragon Ball Z“* and the remake”Dragon Ball Z Kai“*, whose plot is closer to the manga and without the infamous filler episodes. The Kai boxes are not discounted, but are priced lower than the other series.
Also some seasons of the offshoot “Dragon Ball GT“* are on offer which divides opinion to this day. Particularly pleasant: the Blu-ray boxes of the latest sequel “Dragon Ball Super“* be present. “Dragon Ball Super” picks up after “Dragon Ball Z” and closes the gap to GT. The DVD and Blu-ray boxes all look fancy and some include postcards as extras.
Son Goku Day: “Dragon Ball” movies are also included
If you don’t want to fight your way through hundreds of episodes or series are generally not for you, then you can also experience the anime saga in films. More than 20 Dragon Ball movies have been released in the past 37 years. The colorful steel books are a highlight for fans “Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’“* And “Dragon Ball Super: Broly“*the second most recent film in the franchise, released in 2018.
This is what Dragon Ball is all about: The anime’s underlying manga is based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey To The West. The manga tells the journeys of the hero Son Goku, who embarks on a quest to save the Earth by finding the seven Dragon Balls. He takes on warriors, demons, monsters, aliens and even adversaries from the future.