Dragon Ball Z is the long running anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga, following Goku and the Z Fighters through major sagas in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the English dub, each episode closed with a narrator previewing the next installment and teasing viewers to return. That formula became so familiar that the line is now quoted and remixed far beyond the show, used online as a universal sign off for serialized stories, cliffhangers, and dramatic pauses between videos.