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Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga , authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball .
In 2008, he collaborated with Akira Toriyama, his good friend and creator of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, for the Jump SQ one-shot Sachie-chan Good!!. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The two became friends in the early 1980s, having been introduced by their mutual editor Kazuhiko Torishima , and have even parodied each other in their own manga.
Dr. Slump (Japanese: Dr.スランプ, Hepburn: Dokutā Suranpu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 1980 to September 1984, with the chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes.
The legendary manga artist died on March 1 after suffering an acute subdural hematoma, his studio announced Thursday. 'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama, whose work popularized manga and anime ...
Akira Toriyama, the highly influential Japanese manga artist who created the medium-defining franchise “Dragon Ball” in the 1980’s and shepherded its growth as it became a global phenomenon ...
Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) [1] was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump (1980–1984), before going on to create Dragon Ball (1984–1995); his most famous work. [2]
Since the debut of the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump manga series in 1981, Toei Animation (formerly Toei Doga) has produced 11 animated films based on the franchise. In 2008, all eleven films were released in a remastered DVD box set titled Slump the Box Movies on September 21. [ 1 ]
When collected in Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol. 3 on August 4, 1997, they were greyscaled. [2] The series would receive another reprint in Akira Toriyama Mankanzenseki 1 on August 8, 2008. [3] Go! Go! Ackman was released in English by Viz Media on December 7, 2021 as part of their single volume Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater. [4]