Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Previews Suggest That We Are So Back, Y’all
The passing of legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama earlier this year forced me to weigh the importance of his work in my life. After all, my older brother had all but forced Saturday morning cartoons on me, including anime like Dragon Ball and its successors, Z and GT. But it goes beyond even the shows. For nearly as long as I’ve been consciously playing video games, Dragon Ball has followed me there too. I played the Legacy of Goku games on the Game Boy Advance back in the day, as well as the overlooked Dragon Ball Origins franchise on the Nintendo DS. And of course, like many of you, I played a number of the arena-fighting games that were released on home consoles throughout the 2000s, like the Budokai Tenkaichi subseries. — Moises Taveras
