The Cell Saga of Dragon Ball Z infamously wasn't planned out at all, with Akira Toriyama waffling as he switched the focus of the arc from Androids 19 and 20, to Androids 16, 17, and 18, to Cell.

Akira Toriyama’sDragon Ball is rich in exciting action sequences and totemic transformations, yet none of these exaggerated spectacles would mean anything without strong writing to back it up. Dragon ...