Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-32141455-20190403154804/@comment-39213635-20190501200359

I wouldn't say Dragon Ball Z have an overarching story. It's just beat a powerful enemy, then get powered up, then the cycle continues. Overarching story means the entire show itself focus on one story. Technically, Z is just episodic spans out more. Even if we ignore Z, ignore that Goku is an alien (which I do), it wouldn't affect anything on the original series. Akira just made up things along the away to the point it's incredibly ridiculous. There's tons of cartoons that have overarching stories, though I do agree that there're ones that are merely episodic, but so are some animes.

Also, isn't one of the original writer of manga/anime, Osamu Tezuka, inspired by Western animation?