Jul 26, 2026

SITE UPDATE: Original Dragon Ball Preservation Complete + New "Anime / LORE" Section Live

What's up everyone. We've been putting in major work behind the scenes to expand the archives, and today we're dropping a double update.

Original Dragon Ball (1986) Arrives in the Vault

The granddaddy of modern shonen has officially landed on AnimeHistory.org. The entire 153-episode run of original Dragon Ball is now fully indexed and integrated into our community systems.

Complete episode directory with synopses, canon and filler tags, and original air dates
Coverage from the Emperor Pilaf Saga to adult Goku vs. Piccolo Jr. at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai
23 character bios, ordered strictly by chronological appearance
A point-gated download vault organized into saga batches, pulling classic media preservation files straight from the archive

Open the Dragon Ball series page ?

The download rollout is on a schedule, not a dump

New episodes unlock 4 at a time each week, and episodes 1 through 4 are live right now. If you want to marathon this one, you're going to have to earn the patience the same way Goku earned Instant Transmission: slowly, and with some grumbling along the way.

Patience is a martial art. Instant Transmission is not on the syllabus for week one.

New Site Section: Anime / LORE

We've also officially launched the Anime / LORE hub, built to preserve the deep mechanics, rulesets, and tactical breakdowns that made classic anime hit as hard as it did.

What's live first

Technique and combat archives tracking first-episode appearances for iconic abilities, plus the underlying ki / chakra mechanics, risk factors, and strategic function
A full structural breakdown of Fullmetal Alchemist's Law of Equivalent Exchange — mass conservation, elemental restrictions, the Gate of Truth, and the price everyone eventually pays for a human transmutation gone wrong

Dragon Ball LORE index ?
Dragon Ball Technique Debut Directory ?
Dragon Ball Z LORE index ?
DBZ Technique Debut Directory ?
Fullmetal Alchemist LORE ?
Equivalent Exchange tip: you can't trade "I'll post later" for "the archive magically fills itself." We tried. The Gate said no.

Your move

Head over to the directory, check out the new LORE tab, grab what's unlocked, and let us know what you think in the forums.
Rebuke the future. Preserve the past.