"Tackle life with as much energy as Goku! I'll try to do the same!" - It's impossible to overstate the impact of Akira Toriyama, the legendary manga artist a...
Akira Toriyama liked girls with short hair.[1] He married the shojo manga artist Nachi Mikami[1] (referred to as "Yoshimi" in the final volume of Dr. Slump)[2] in 1982, and they had two children: a son named Sasuke, born in April 1987,[1] and a daughter, Kikka[3], born in ...
"Extra Story" by Toyotarou, a Dragon Ball Heroes: Charisma Mission chapter by Yoshitaka Nagayama, a new installment in the Anime Comic for Dragon Ball GT, a Dragon Ball crossover with The Tale of Isobe Isobei by Ryō Nakama, and a new part of Naho Ooishi's interview of Akira Toriyama....
Throughout his career, Mr. Toriyama said in a 2013 interview with the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun, he did not care if his work did anything besides entertaining its readers. He was, he suggested, unlike “other manga ...
The manga artist Toriyama Akira passed away in March 2024. His debut hit Dr. Slump, his globally beloved masterpiece Dragon Ball, and his impact on generations of artists ensure him a place in the pantheon of Japan’s pop-culture greats.