1984.
Production on Dragonball GT began in 1996 and ended in 1997.
After dragonball z there is dragonball gt and after tht there is a fan made manga called dragonball af.
Akira Toriyama
There are no Dragonball AF novels because it is a fan made product
1996
Akira Toriyama drew the Dragonball and Dragonball Z mangas. After that, Toei Animation made it into an anime and it first aired on Fuji TV.
AF is Fan made. There is no Anime, just Photoshop Images of Dragonball AF.
The first TV episode of DragonBall Z aired on September 13, 1996 called "The Arrival of Raditz" The graphic novels of both dragonball and dragonball z were released on March 2003. Not sure when Dragonball aired on tv though.
Well, theres is a remake of Dragonball Z called Dragonball Kai. But there is a new season called Dragonball GT, this series is not made by Akira Toriyama(The creator of Dragonball)
Dragonball AF was originally an April Fools joke. There's fan made manga but nothing official.
Dragonball originally started off as a manga and then it was made into the Anime later on. DragonBall Z followed the same footsteps - Manga first, then Anime second.
sadly no they were made by amateur