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Wednesday, November 26th, 2025

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Dragon Ball English Japanese Duplicates

For the anime Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, there are two separate versions of both of them, differentiated only by the language (sub or dub, English or Japanese). Normally, there would only be two anime, Dragon Ball (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088509/) and Dragon Ball Z (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121220/), the original series and its immediate continuation series. I'm not arguing to merge Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, but there are actually 4 versions of these two shows in total. The other two series (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280249/ and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214341/) are the exact same as the previously listed shows, except they are dubbed over in English, and have less episodes than the Japanese originals due to some episodes being skipped in localization. Is this intentional? If not, I believe this should be fixed, because not only is it redundant, it's clogging the Top 250 charts. Thank you.

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Hi edsand11-

Thank you for reporting! However, this is as intended and they will remain separate. 

You can review our following post regarding these series. 

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This makes general sense, but I don't think they should both be on the TV Top 250, considering the international releases have essentially the same content as the Japanese versions aside from the minor differences. It's causing two shows that normally should be on the 250 (whatever shows are no 251 and 252) to be pushed barely out due to these versions. I believe that there could be some way to remove them from the 250 while keeping the entries, as I believe that was applied to The Chosen for quite a while. It's not a huge deal, but I'm trying to watch all the shows on the TV Top 250 and I'd rather not watch two shows twice over, lol. Thanks.