27 years ago the series was released with no fanfare in Spain through a local channel. I was 17. I got caught from the very 1st minute with the quality of drawings, action, mitology, humor and philosophy (not so much with the japanesse sense of suspense ;-). And of course "the charachters" in an ever evolving, growing, challenging spiral of Self Perfection where good and bad are but references that mutate around the innocence, cleanness and determination for common good from our beloved imaginary character and the upgrades he experiences through adventure, challenge, self determination and having fun.
And being Inmortal and super strong.
Points all to be debated deeply since it resonates with principles inside our Self.
There are other points to discuss on the series but lets keep what is good upon my perspective.
We where commenting every new weekly chapter in class next day and soon it was a popular phenomenon forever attached to the image of the TV channel.
Time passed and I couldn´t find time, after twenty something years, to follow the end of Dragon Ball Z but I had the opportunity to be updated on conclusions from a friend. He told me: In the end the most powerful is the most Child Like... Made sense for me since it was the main resonator through the whole series even though requires just literal interpretation. Innocence was the word for me, no guilt, no self condemnation, the aim of not hurting, which from my experience is the key to win any fight or attack you might find your self in, which is neutralizing the attack or the attacker but never have the aim of hurting but just defend in case of need. How to prevent it is exactly the same Science, I will not go further on this point here.
No matter what fight you will confront you will succeed. There is a Principle manifesting there. Violence is the use of force to alter the direction or movement of something, violence is very different from abuse, which is the main evil we confront together with the ignorance of it. Abusing our Selves or others. Abusing our physical.
So once again I get updated on the philosophy of the series, from you Gian this time, thanks very much!, and I am glad to see that the "educators-creators-artists" of Dragon Ball keep showing keys of Self Perfection. There is no doubt to me that the final quest of our Human species is to reach the limits of our creation. The limits give shape, define the form. Our physical limits are not others than our shape. We are lost inside a giant organism not knowing where to go. We are said to be trapped in our bodies... what a lack of respect to Ourselves. Our physical body is the End of the Quest, our physical bodies are the gift of the gods despite Themselves, and all the mythologies, religions and abstractions that come from us symbolically refer to our physical beings and how to attune them with our Mind and Spirit, with our Being. We have been wondering about Spirit and Mind (as if we knew what they are) and neglect our selves as what we really are. Physical "animated" beings . Physical movement. The fact of realizing that we are physical beings is the end of the Quest, lets realize this. The dragon, our "back bone" and the pillar of secret societies, is the compass and the sword of will and we are supposed to learn how to use it. A so called 33 degree master (generally ignored by themselves) in whatever Secret Society is supposed to have mastered the ascendant energy through the 33 vertebrae of the back bone up to the mountain head awakening his different powers hold in secret chambers of the spinal cord passing by the different chacras and glands (7, like the Dragon Balls)etc.
Managing energy with our mind. Which is managing the mind from the mind, cul de sac, deception. No matter how many exercises of Kundalini rising you do, you will became a stucked rigid back bone unable to twist, as the secret mason masters we are referred to. Old guys that dont´t dance.
What about the physical and its shape? Shape or form or structure define the function. Shape is result of the limits and are One and the Same. So when we are told not to put limits to our selves or the contrary, we say to ourselves that we have to put limits to our children, or not, again, we are creating this diatribe in our teachers and scholars. When we do this, we are just manifesting ignorance of Self and not allowing Creation to express. What about accepting our limits? What about accepting what we are as physical beings? What about allowing ourselves to realize that we are at the end of the Quest? that we reach the Limits, which is our Physical Manifestation. We have arrived till the end of creation and it is at the end of our finger tips, Our Skin. The Limit.
Liminal Cosmogony, you can search on this term.

Are we one with our Skin? Do we allow our Selves to enjoy it?
How many times we miss contact? There is no other sense than touch.
The photons touch our retinas in our eyes.
The sound waves touch our timpani.
The smell molecules touch our noses.
The flavours our tongues.
The touch...
The Skin is our sensory organ. And is one with us.
We are not trapped in our Skin. We Are our Skin.
"Derma" which means Skin, builds the word Madre. Mother. Matrix. Maya.
Derma means Matrix.
We are the Matrix. Matrix means skin. The Real Matrix is our Skin. We want to touch and be touched.
Lets allow our Selves to be what we are. Lets stop suppressing our selves as what we are.

Try this. Locate a pain in your body. Now locate the hepicentrum of the pain in your skin and breath through it. Connect it with the clearest image of the hipocentrum that you have of the same pain inside your body, may appear as a diffuse pain, reach the bones, reach inside the bones, focus at maximum and breath through it and connect the hipocentrum with the epicentrum. Now, allow your self to move from there, from this point in the surface of your Skin and keep breathing deeply. Apply forgivenes and appreciation as other pains related to this will show up in related parts of the body. Allow your Self to go into spontaneous movement and learn how to heal your Self enjoying postures and features you never made but when you were a child enjoying your Self exploring your Being.
Feel how you get stronger as pain disappears in this parts of the body and how your Skin corrects, communicates with its continuous shape wit the rest of its surface, and re-fits as what you are. Move as it.
Ever wonder why your Skin feels great next day after extensive dancing ?
Your Skin is a Dance Master. We have hypo dermis, hepi dermis, dermis and I add gasodermis , electrodermis and magnetodermis. Full sensory organ continuously collecting and sending information.
Dance is the unknown origin and the unknown goal of all the martial arts. All fights are a frustrated dance.
Your Dragon, your Back Bone, is made of vertebrae. Vertebrae mins "to turn". The dragon twists upwards in an ever ascending spiral driven by a vertical axis of Will.
Twisting is a movement we lost in favor of bending.
We are to explore our movement. Lets allow the Dragon to be One with the rest of our manifestation and allow our Self to enjoy unlimited exploration with our limited, physically shaped Self.
Dragon means Serpent.

This is Our Dragon, the Pillar of Our Physical Manifestation