It should be noted, not one anime listed here is a bad anime. Others are in here because they openly admitted to borrowing concepts and ideas, either by paying respect to them or using them in a comedic fashion. Yes, they've ripped off the Dragon Ball franchise, but carved out their own path in the manga and anime world too.

Many of the anime listed in this article are success stories in their own right. There are a few anime series which have clearly ripped off Dragon Ball Z but have still found massive amounts of success because fans just don’t seem to care that much - enjoying the style and story regardless of where the ideas originated from. While others respect the work of Akira Toriyama so much that his style of drawing characters comes out in their own work. Some ideas are taken and turned into a spoof, giving props to the Dragon Ball franchise through comedic means. While some anime series have clearly stolen artwork, concepts, storylines, arcs, character development, and more. Because of this, several anime series have come under fire for ripping off content and ideas from Dragon Ball. The manga and anime have received numerous accolades, as well as being considered the foundation of a majority of shōnen anime. The Dragon Ball franchise has been around since 1984, when the manga, written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama, was first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

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