After years of training & adventure Goku has become Earth's ultimate warrior. & his son Gohan shows even greater promise. But the strikes are increasing as even deadlier enemies threaten the planet. More action-packed than the stories of Goku's youth DRAGON BALL Z is the ultimate science fiction martial arts manga. Get ready for action as time travellers aliens deities & the mighty Super Saiyans clash over the fate of the universe! (In Japan Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z were originally a single 42-volume series. VIZ Media's Dragon Ball Z contains vols. 27-42 of the original Japanese Dragon Ball from the first appearance of Goku's son Gohan to the climax of the series.) Trapped on war-torn Planet Namek Earth's heroes Gohan Kuririn & Bulma struggle to keep the Dragon Balls out of the hands of both Vegeta & the planet-destroying Emperor Freeza. But even a power-up courtesy of the Great Elder of Namek may not be enough to save them from Freeza's reinforcements: the Ginyu Force the five strongest fighters in outer space led by the supervillain Captain Ginyu! Desperate times call for desperate measures & Gohan & Kuririn find themselves with an unlikely ally as their theatrical enemies ro-sham-bo for the honour of who gets to kill them first!