If you are a child in the 90s, kneeling on a shag carpet with a bowl of cereal, there are exactly twenty-five minutes of screaming. There is an episode that is nothing but Goku gathering spirit energy, his hands trembling, the camera panning across the sweat on Vegeta’s brow. You count the seconds. You count the episodes. But mostly, you count the Mondays. The episodes are not units of story; they are units of waiting. In that era, there are five minutes of Namekian time that stretch on for ten episodes. Physics breaks. A minute is not sixty seconds; a minute is an episode. A minute is a lifetime.

If you’re planning a marathon of Akira Toriyama’s legendary franchise, you’re looking at a massive journey across decades of content. As of early 2026, there are ( Dragon Ball , Z , GT , and Super ), but that number jumps to 806 if you include the remastered Dragon Ball Z Kai .

If you’ve decided to finally take the plunge into the world of Goku, Bulma, and Vegeta, you’ve probably asked the most daunting question a new fan can ask:

To ask how many episodes there are is to ask how long a heartbeat lasts.