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Akira Toriyama

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Born
Apr 5, 1955
Died
Mar 1, 2024
From
Aichi, Japan

Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.

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19847.2out of 10

Godzilla 1985

19856.8out of 10

Dragon Quest - 30th Anniversary NHK Special

201610.0out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'

20156.9out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

19917.1out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

19896.8out of 10

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

20227.9out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

19926.5out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest

19906.6out of 10

Dragon Quest Fantasia Video

19880.0out of 10

Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans

20107.1out of 10

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Excited Heart of Summer Vacation

19944.0out of 10

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island

19817.0out of 10

Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins

19914.2out of 10

Nuumamonjaa: Time and Space Adventures

19965.7out of 10

Dragon Ball: Fight Son Goku, Win Son Goku

19905.4out of 10

Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy

19976.8out of 10

Sand Land

20238.2out of 10

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