Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball. Toriyama first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the manga series Dr. Slump ...

Mar 8, 2024 · Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created the enormously popular and influential Dragon Ball series, died of a brain condition last week at the age of 68, his production studio said...

Akira Toriyama (鳥 とり 山 やま 明 あきら Toriyama Akira) (born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture) was a widely acclaimed Japanese manga artist and character designer who lived in Kiyosu. He was most famously known for his creation of Dr. Slump in 1980 and Dragon Ball in 1984.

The character Goku is based on Sun Wukong (Son Goku in Japanese), [nb 25] the central character of the Chinese novel Journey to the West. [15] To be creative with the idea of Sun Wukong, Toriyama designed Goku as a human boy with a monkey's tail, rather than a complete simian, because the tail would give the character a distinguishing feature. [12] He later stated that the tail was a pain to ...

Mar 8, 2024 · But Goku was always an exemplar of staying power, back from his beginnings in the “Dragon Ball” manga created by Akira Toriyama, whose death was confirmed on Friday.

Akira Toriyama's original design of Goku. When Toriyama started his first draft of Dragon Ball, he originally planned on making Goku a full monkey to make the series more faithful to Journey to the West.

Mar 8, 2024 · To no surprise, creators who worked on the shonen franchise have expressed their grief online, with Masako Nozawa sharing a touching tribute to Toriyama in a new statement.

Mar 26, 2024 · So much so, that the first drawing of Goku, made by its author before his presentation to the whole world in 1984, has come to light. But to learn more about this strange story, we have to go...

Mar 18, 2024 · Sean Schemmel, who voiced Dragon Ball 's Goku in English for over 25 years, held a commemorative live stream for late manga legend Akira Toriyama, in which he explained how working on the franchise saved his life, and not just figuratively.

Goku (孫 悟空, Son Gokū) is the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball (franchise) metaseries created by Akira Toriyama. He is the adoptive grandson of Grandpa Gohan, the husband of Chi-Chi, the father of Gohan and Goten, the grandfather of Pan, and later great-great grandfather of Goku Jr. Goku is a...