How does the anime version of the show differ from the manga version of the story?
The anime is paced far slower than the manga, and features a number of "filler" sagas that weren't in the original manga. These had to be added into the anime to keep pace with the release of the manga, which was still being put out as the anime was being made. As these fillers were created with only minimal involvement with Akira Toriyama, they often contradict major plot points of the series. For instance, the entire Garlic Jr. Saga was a creation of Toei Animation, and does not appear at all in Toriyama's manga. Some filler segments are merely fights from the manga that are extended, as well as drawn-out extended scenes of characters powering up. Amusingly, most of the complaints people have about the show stem from anime-only filler and aren't problems that exist in the original manga.
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