# Dragon Ball GT (1996)

> Goku is turned back into a child by a wish gone wrong and must race through outer space with Trunks and Pan to gather the Black Star Dragon Balls before Earth is destroyed.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/11839

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 64
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, action, adventure
- Network: Fuji TV, Tokai Television Broadcasting, Kansai TV, Fukui TV, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Iwate Menkoi Television, Sendai Television, SAGA TV, Ishikawa TV, TNC, OHK, Television Shin Hiroshima System, TV Shizuoka, UMK TV Miyazaki, NST, NBS, TSK, Ehime Broadcasting, KTS, Fukushima TV, AKT, Toyama Television, TV Kumamoto, Okinawa Television Broadcasting, KTN
- Cast: Masako Nozawa, Yuko Minaguchi, Takeshi Kusao, Bin Shimada, Atsushi Kisaichi, Ryo Horikawa, Toshio Furukawa, Miki Ito
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139774/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: playful, earnest, adventurous, comedic, energetic

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series mixed, with its return to Goku's childhood and space-faring premise seen as a playful but uneven continuation of the franchise.

## Synopsis

Dragon Ball GT (1996-1997) is a Japanese animated shonen action adventure series created as a Toei Animation production for Fuji TV and broadcast across Japan. Ten years after the events of its predecessor, Goku (voiced by Masako Nozawa) is hit by an accidental wish from the scheming Emperor Pilaf that transforms him back into a child. Goku, Trunks (Takeshi Kusao) and his granddaughter Pan (Yuko Minaguchi) blast off into outer space to hunt the mysterious Black Star Dragon Balls, which must be gathered within a year or Earth will be destroyed. The engine of the series is a cosmic scavenger hunt, with each episode built around a new alien world, a new rival, and a fight that tests a hero who has lost his adult body but not his fighting spirit. Shape and scale are those of a single season of sixty-four episodes, a complete quest with a fixed deadline rather than an open-ended saga. Its tone is playful and earnest, with slapstick comedy giving way to escalating battles and a steady sense of adventure. Fans of Dragon Ball Z, the original Dragon Ball, and Naruto will recognize the shonen formula of power-ups, tournaments and loyal companions, while the space setting gives it a looser, more wandering feel than its predecessors.

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