List of Dragon Ball Z chapters

Dragon Ball Z is the North American title for the second part of the Dragon Ball manga, which is written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. The story follows the how Son Goku discovers that he comes from the Saiyan warrior race, and starts facing enemies from the Saiyan and several other villains. The original series was published in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. The individual chapters were collected by Shueisha in a series of 42 tankōbon volumes; The first tankōbon was released in November 10, 1985, while the last one was released in August 4, 1995. In 2004, the manga was re-released in a collection of 34 kanzenban, which included a slightly rewritten ending, new covers, and color artwork from its Weekly Shōnen Jump run. There have also been two anime adaptations, both produced by Toei Animation. The first, also named Dragon Ball, adapted the first sixteen volumes of the Japanese manga. The second one was titled Dragon Ball Z and adapted the other twenty-six volumes of the series.

The distributing company Viz Media has released all 42 volumes in English in the United States. Viz titles volumes seventeen through forty-two of the manga Dragon Ball Z to reduce confusion for North American readers. Both manga series were published since March 2003; the last volume of the second part was released in June 6, 2006. , Viz began re-releasing both manga series in a wideban format called "VIZBIG Edition", which is a collection of three volumes in one. A "Collector's Edition" of volume one including a hard cover was released on November 4, 2008.