Akira Toriyama
Also known as Toriyama Akira, Toriyama
Japanese manga artist and character designer (1955-2024)
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Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer who created some of the most popular and influential comics of the past several decades, most notably the series "Dragon Ball." His work shaped the manga and anime industries and left a lasting impact on popular culture worldwide before his death in 2024.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955-04-05
- Died
- 2024-03-01
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- 1383
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- 631
- Total plays
- 8,557
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Akira Toriyama is a mangaka most famous for his work on "Dragon Ball", a story about a young boy named Goku's quest for seven magic crystals that can grant one wish. It is based on the traditional Chinese folk story "Journey to the West". Any music credited to Akira Toriyama will usually be the work of other composers for the anime adaptations of his manga. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Akira+Toriyama">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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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 is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors in the history of manga and created numerous highly influential and popular series, with his most famous and successful project being the Dragon Ball franchise.
Toriyama first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the manga series Dr. Slump, which was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen series. Dr. Slump went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into an anime, with a second series created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. Toriyama wrote and illustrated the Dragon Ball manga from 1984 to 1995. It became one of the best-selling manga series of all time, with 260 million copies sold worldwide, and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been credited with boosting anime's international popularity.
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