“Akira Toriyama” by Kami Sama Exploration Museum is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Image via Wikimedia Commons Popular manga creator Akira Toriyama died on March 1 from an acute subdural hematoma. He was 68 years old. His family held a private funeral.
The Toriyama family does not accept gifts, visits or offerings, nor do they accept interviews. Bird Studio, Toriyama’s design and production studio, is planning to hold an anniversary gathering in the future.
Toriyama begins his first full-length manga, Dr. Slump, in 1980, and it inspired two television anime and multiple films. Toriyama followed it up with Dragon Ball, which ran from 1984 to 1995, and is still inspiring manga and anime sequels and spin-offs to this day. The manga’s Dragon Ball anime adaptation, its sequel Dragon Ball Z, and many other sequels and anime films are equally popular as the manga, and its hero Goku has become a well-known character. all around the world.
Toriyama is also famous as the character designer for the games Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon.
Most recently, Toriyama is working closely with the production of the anime series Dragon Ball Daima, the latest anime series based on Dragon Ball, and is credited as the story and character designer for the new anime. His Sand Land manga also recently inspired an anime film adaptation opening in Japan in August 2022, an anime series launching worldwide on March 20, and a game that will launches on April 26.
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