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In the Dragon Ball: Adventure Special, the Dragon Ball manga author, Akira Toriyama, explains that there are seven Dragon Balls because there are eight balls in Hakken-Den, a famous Edo-era Japanese novel, and that he would have hated for them to be exactly the same number, so he had the amount of Dragon Balls be changed to seven in number.
Unlike other forms of fiction that involve wishes, the Dragon Balls grant a wish exactly as the wisher imagined it, rather than warping the wish so that it is technically granted but ends up making the wisher's life even more difficult. For example, when King Piccolo wished for youth, he was not reduced to an infant, but rather, returned to his prime when he was at his strongest. Also, when a victim is revived from the dead, they are not undead, but are truly returned to life. This is likely so that there is a legitimate reason to pursue the Dragon Balls by the protagonists, as they would not have a justification to rely on them if they knew they would never grant a proper wish. Also, unlike wishes in other literary works, the eternal dragons are actually sentient beings; thus, they may be capable of interpreting a wish however they see fit, but usually choose to interpret them how they know the wisher actually wants, as a courtesy rather than as a rule. Credence is lent to this theory in the Golden Frieza Saga, where Sorbet wished for Frieza to be brought back to life. Shenron realized that Frieza would be restored, but only in the condition he was in the moment immediately before he died, which was being chopped to pieces by Future Trunks, and he could not restore Frieza's body to full health. Since he knew that wasn't what Sorbet was expecting, he advised against the wish. Sorbet persisted, however, and the wish was granted, but it nonetheless showcases Shenron's discretion in granting wishes.
Additionally, the Dragon Balls may have been inspired by the Buddhist scriptures that Xuangzang set out to retrieve in Journey to the West, the primary source of inspiration for the Dragon Ball franchise.
The Dragon Balls come in sets of seven with each ball displaying the number of stars that signifies its respective number in the set. It was said by Colonel Silver that the Dragon Balls are unbreakable when he dropped a fake Dragon Ball.[7] Vegeta likely did not know this when he ordered Krillin to destroy one before the Ginyu Force took them on Namek. In the Fusion Saga, while Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks is fighting Super Buu, Piccolo says "If you break even one of the balls they can never be used again", which may mean that the Dragon Balls are not completely indestructible or that they are destructible when turned to stone (as they were turned to stone at the time).
While the Dragon Balls take a year to return to normal, there have been two cases where they were used more than once in a year. The first example of this was when Kami revived Shenron and told Goku it would normally take a year since King Piccolo made a wish to restore his youth just days earlier, but he decided to make an exception for Goku and his friends this once. The second and currently final time this happened was when Piccolo, and subsequently Kami, died during the battle with Nappa, and was later revived, effectively restarting the Dragon Balls, allowing them to be used to revive all those killed by Frieza and his men on Namek, with the first wish being to revive Goku happened around a month earlier. The exception to this is when the summoner chooses to save their wishes, at which point the Dragon Balls become inert for four months.
Each set of Dragon Balls are difficult to find because they are scattered all over their respective planet, all across their respective universe/galaxy (depending on the dub for Dragon Ball GT) in the case of the Black Star Dragon Balls, across numerous universes in the case of the Super Dragon Balls or even throughout time and space in the case of the Dark Dragon Balls and are deactivated for a year after every wish (though this depends on their origins, as a Namekian year is nearly one-third [130 days] of a year on Earth [365 days], thus the Namekian Dragon Balls can be used more frequently than Earth's), disguising themselves as stones. To create an opportunity to summon an Eternal Dragon, one must travel all over the globe to retrieve them. As technology eventually progressed, this became somewhat easier, and became relatively simple with Bulma's invention of the Dragon Radar. Though the Dragon Balls are "programmed" to scatter across a specific location(s) after having been used, it is shown at least one can be stopped from scattering alongside the others, as Goku jumped into the air and grabs the Four-Star ball before it can fly away at the end of the Fortuneteller Baba Saga.
Despite the miraculous feats an Eternal Dragon can perform, their capacities for wish-granting are not without limits. Said limits on the Dragon's powers are set by the relative capabilities of the Dragon Ball set's creator, unable to physically exceed the might of the said creator (ex: they cannot kill someone the creator is not able to kill). However, if the wisher is willing to, the Eternal Dragon can briefly bypass their normal wish-granting limitations in proportion to how much life energy the wisher is willing to give up. Another big problem for any set of Dragon Balls is that their creator must be alive for them to function, otherwise they will be stones for eternity. The Dragon Balls can be rendered inactive if the model of the dragon breaks; likewise, if the dragon is destroyed, the model breaks.
Without a model of the dragon and a set of Dragon Balls (in its stone form), it would take about 100 days to create the Dragon Balls (as mentioned by Dende before he modified them). If the creator allows it, the Dragon Balls can be used even if a year has not passed; this happens only once in the series, when Kami allowed Goku and his friends to revive all people killed by King Piccolo, even though it had only been a few days since King Piccolo wished to restore his youth.
Since all seven Dragon Balls must be brought together (though it is unknown exactly what the maximum distance amongst the balls for them to be considered 'together' is), it is often a sound strategy employed by the villains of the series to find one Dragon Ball and hold on to it, while the Z Fighters go through the trouble of finding the other six, after which the villain will step in and steal them. Since this strategy technically works, but is considered cheap, the Z Fighters do not usually employ it, as they prefer to fight fair. However, the Z-Fighters did use this tactic during the Namek Saga, when Gohan took Vegeta's Four Star Namekian Dragon Ball, because Krillin and Gohan knew they could not beat Vegeta or Frieza's forces without Goku's help, so they resorted to this tactic just that once.
The power of the Dragon Balls is not limited to the summoning of Shenron. As speculated by Esca, the Namekian Dragon Balls are able to maintain the physical status of New Namek and its inhabitants long after Moro had drained their energy, allowing them to return to life with the energy brought back by Vegeta's Forced Spirit Fission.
Old Kai once warned the Z Fighters not to overuse the Dragon Balls. This is elaborated upon in the Shadow Dragon Saga of Dragon Ball GT, since the Dragon Balls are only supposed to be used once every 100 years.
The most well-known Dragon Ball is the Four-Star Dragon Ball, being the one Grandpa Gohan had and which Goku kept after he passed away, also being the one which Goku put on his first son Gohan's hat. The Namekian Dragon Ball Vegeta stole, and that was later stolen from him by Gohan, was also the Four-Star Dragon Ball. In Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming, the Four-Star Dragon Ball is the last Dragon Ball to be collected before Trunks, Goten and Videl summon Shenron, and was also the last ball to be found by Bulma before summoning Shenron to wish back those who were killed by Majin Vegeta at the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament.[8] In the Black Star Dragon Ball Saga of Dragon Ball GT, the first Black Star Dragon Ball collected is the Four-Star Dragon Ball. Later, in the Shadow Dragon Saga, the only good Shadow Dragon, Nuova Shenron, is the Four-Star Dragon. During the Tournament of Destroyers in Dragon Ball Super, the Nameless Planet itself, the venue ground of the tournament Goku and co. were fighting on, is revealed to be the Four-Star Super Dragon Ball all along, completing the entire Super Dragon Ball set which was collected and gathered together.
The Earth Dragon Balls are about 7.5cm (approximately 3 in) in diameter, and they summon a dragon named Shenron. They were created by Kami, and later re-created by Dende. Shenron can grant a wish within its powers as long as it does not create love, repeat a wish he previously granted, surpasses its creator's power, and meets a few more restrictions. Legitimate wishes include eternal youth, immortality, bringing back a scorched forest or even an annihilated planet.
One of the most common wishes is bringing a dead person back to life, although there are several limitations on that as well. For starters, as stated above, the dragon will not grant the same wish more than once, which has the net result of ensuring that nobody can be wished back to life more than once. Also, they cannot revive a person who has died of natural causes. Although Earth's dragon balls can revive multiple dead people at once, when multiple people are revived, only those who have been dead for one year or less can be revived. This is often misunderstood by fans to mean that only those who have been dead for less than a year can be revived, but that is never explicitly stated in the series; all Kami ever says is that only wishes to revive multiple people are limited to a one-year time frame. Indeed, this misconception is finally put to rest in the Golden Frieza Saga, when Frieza was restored to life with Earth's dragon balls, despite Frieza being unquestionably dead for longer than a year. It is unknown if this restriction is still in place after Dende upgraded Shenron. In addition, when one is wished back to life, they awaken in the place where they were killed, such as the case with Bora, essentially reuniting the body with the soul. If one's body had been completely vaporized, they would come back in the last state they were alive in as shown by Mecha Frieza who was revived in pieces as the last time, he was alive was after Future Trunks had cut him into pieces (Frieza continued to live due to his ability to survive horrific injuries) before finishing him off. As shown by Frieza condition of the revived person depends on the person being revived as Frieza was revived in pieces due to him being able to live despite his entire body being cut up. If a person has been allowed to keep their body in Other World as with Goku, then the person will be revived in Other World (which causes their halo to disappear) forcing them to return to the living world on their own. However, this apparently only applies to noble souls like Goku, as evil souls like Mecha Frieza who kept his body in Earth's Hell was revived on Earth in pieces, though it is possible that Dende's alternations to the Dragon Balls how resurrection functions or Frieza being revived on Earth instead of Earth's Hell was due to Shenron's interpretation of Sorbet's wish as Sorbet wanted to restore Frieza to life, so he could restore Frieza's body using the Frieza Force's more advanced medical technology.
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