If You have A Pic Of
Him I'd Really Appreciate It To Put It Up| Akira Toriyama |
If You have A Pic Of
Him I'd Really Appreciate It To Put It Up
A kira Toriyama was born
on April 5th, 1955 at the Aichi District, Japan. He graduated and
became a graphic designer. In 1978, he published his first manga
called Wonder Island. Later that year, he started "Highlight
Island" followed by "Tomato Girl Detective". In
the year 1980, he started "Dr Slump", which brought him
success and fame. Then the Dragonball series. Dragonball was the
most successful comic in Japan, it got such a high level of
respect and reputation Toriyama continued on and created
Dragonball Z also the latest Dragonball GT. Altogether they sold
over 200 million copies...(?) (this included DB, DBZ & DBGT)
worldwide...mostly Asian countries actually. Toriyama was also
the character designer for the popular Dragon Quest series and
Chrono Triger video games. He was indeed the most respected Anime
and Manga artist of all time.
Dr Slump: Approximately 100 volumes in
total. A story on a robotic girl. This was Toriyama's first
successful Anime, which brought him respect and fame. This series
of comics are very funny and a good read.
DragonBall: There are 42 volumes. The storyline is great
along with sick looking characters. Although the story gets a
little predictable later on and the drawings gets poorer when it
reaches the end of the series. However overall is still
excellent.
DragonBall Z: More Dragonball. The Z stands for Zen. The
main reason that they they put that there is because this
dragonball series is where Goku has exelled (or will eventually
excell) many high masters of the arts. This is the newer version
of DragonBall, with more enemies and a few different characters.
The new characters look absolutely awesome. Hint: Watch the
movies rather than the comic book version, because the movies
KICK BUTT!!!
DragonBall GT: More Dragonball. DragonBall GT stands for
Grand Tour. The drawings are very much different compared to the
other Dragonball series. GT wasn't created by Akira Toriyma, but
probably by his Bird Studio artists. DragonBall GT is a totally
different story with MORE sick characters. The story is about how
Gokou is turned back into a little kid again. At that time, the
seven magical balls (or dragonballs) are spread across the
universe. From comments I've received, I believe this series of
Dragonball is not very good and is changing the way what
Dragonball used to look like (the cartoon is starting to move
towards Sailor Moon kind of comic). I haven't seen the GT series
yet so I don't have much of an opinion right now.
Go Go Ackman: A good fantasy story about a boy with a huge
sword. I did not find it interesting so I won't tell you more
about it. (What do you notice about Ackman, does he look like
someone familiar...?)
"Too much fantasy looses reality, too much hope may seem
somehow empty" - Akira Toriyama