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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.
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 .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama This article is about the media franchise in general. For other uses, see Dragon Ball (disambiguation). Dragon Ball The logo for the original manga series Created by Akira Toriyama Original work Dragon Ball (1984–1995) Owner Bird ...
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 creator of the iconic Dragon Ball manga, died on March 1 at the age of 68. Besides his work in manga and video games, Toriyama was also passionate about cars and motorcycles ...
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama.Originally serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, the 519 individual chapters were collected in 42 tankōbon volumes.
Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
When creating Vegeta, Toriyama originally intended for him to be a short-lived antagonist and second-tier character, with little influence to Dragon Ball's story. Toriyama intended for Goku to simply kill him at the climax of their first battle, and portrayed him as simply and one-dimensional as he should have been considering this.