Who Really Was Akira Toriyama? - Dragon Ball Creator

With the recent passing of Akira Toriyama, I wanted to go over his personal life. Dragon Ball is a series that means a great deal to many fans. The impact and reach the anime has had is unlike anything else and I think it would be safe to say that Dragon Ball is the most culturally impactful anime to date. So, naturally, we will be going over who Akira Toriyama was on this episode of Culture Explained. Toriyama has had an extensive career with other popular manga like Dr.Slump, so let’s learn everything there is to know about how he got his start in manga, and what kind of life he lived during and after his serializations.

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Sources to most information:

Majority of Interviews I read (can’t list them all): https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/
Early Manga: https://yesterdaysjoe.com/best-manga-...
Bird Land Press: https://archive.org/details/akira-tor...
https://m.blog.naver.com/treeheart9/2...
Collection of Personal Excerpts: https://mangadelbueno.blogspot.com/20...
Bird Studio: https://archive.ph/qNq4u
Excerpt from 'Dragon Ball Culture': https://books.google.com/books?id=JYv...
Early Dragon Ball concepts: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/prot...
Italian restaurant drawing: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c4d...
Torishima interview: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebar...
All Dragon Ball chapters: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/db/#....
Useful forum discussing manga: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/view...
Chinese Forum: https://www.zhihu.com/question/647721597
Toribot info: https://thedaoofdragonball.com/histor....
Bali photos: https://laboitedemangas.wordpress.com...
Wedding video:    • Akira Toriyama's wedding  
High quality scans of magazines: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kami_sa...
Amazing images of Akira (can't believe i had this tab open, I forgot about it, could've used these): https://dragonballfanson.blogspot.com...
Akira Sakuma: https://shmuplations.com/akirasakuma/
Yuji Horii:   / the-story-behind-dragon-quest  
Rumiko Takahashi: https://mangadex.org/author/3749c8e1-...
Yoshimi Kato: https://dbz-store.com/blogs/our-dbz-b...
Takashi Matsuyama: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translatio...
Maximum the Hormone: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/2012/11/03...
About his pets: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/2018/05/11...
https://laboitedemangas.wordpress.com...
https://laboitedemangas.wordpress.com...
1989 Magazine: https://watchmono.com/blog-entry-664....
2008 interview: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/view...
Dragon Ball AF: https://thedaoofdragonball.com/interv...
Battle of Gods: https://www.db-z.com/chat-akira-toriy...
Resurrection F: https://www.scifijapan.com/anime-anim...
Dragonball Evolution: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/inte...
Forum about Myths: https://www.genkidama.com.br/xil/a-le...



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