#akira toriyama

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truly connected people on a staggering level. If you engage with anime, even if you dont like dbz, chances are the anime you like got to you because of dbz's popularity. If you like jrpgs, even if you've never played dragon quest, the games you do love almost certainly became a thing because someone in the 80s loved dragon quest. 68 is way too young but genuinely what a towering legacy.

[fujikosouvenir]

Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump No. 32, 1981

[shihlun]

RIP Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)

[sixthrock]

reminder

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[appalachian-werewolf]

"Wolf" by Akira Toriyama, originally published in Akira Toriyama - The World (January 15, 1990)

[iluvluvnutella]

Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, dies at 68. Absolutely tragic. Rest in peace Legend.

[easternmind]

Akira Toriyama and his son Sasuke playing Dragon Quest 3 some time in the late 1980s.

May he rest in peace. Image credits: Atsushi Onodera, The Yomiuri Shinbum (X07098), 1988.

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[medakakurokami]

one thing i've always understood as Akira Toriyama's influence on manga, even if just assumption on my part, was how his cartooning came to bear when he started writing pure action manga. when I think of his contemporaries I think of overblown special moves like Saint Seiya or the gory fist clusters of FotNS

to me it seemed what Toriyama brought to the table was the satisfaction of clarity in martial arts

when you read his fight scenes, which may have become notorious when animated for dragging on, there's no question about what's happening in the action

a clear kick to the jaw

a clean line of action on Yajirobe's slice

I first noticed this clarity pretty quickly early on in the General Tao fights during the red ribbon arc, where entire fight scenes playing out with these clear motions on the pages

Even as it got more detailed later on, the clarity stayed

clear hits on clear fight scenes

and dirtier but still completely legible lines of action

And when he started introducing the big over the top special moves we got the same thing quite often in DB: that simple visual clarity amplifying the excitement

i'm not super coherent on it right now, i'm not the biggest shonen action fan all the time and maybe Toriyama didn't introduce the world to visually clear and interesting fights in manga.

but when I see any action manga showing off clean fight choreography or sick ass lazer beams that show off clear shockwaves of destruction, i'll always be thinking of the GOAT

RIP Akira Toriyama

[kingcrimsonsalt]

Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)

He was genuinely one of the very best, no one did it like him. Goodbye, grandfather of Shounen.

[dragon-ball-meta]

Akira Toriyama has passed away... May he rest in peace. Thank you so much, sir. For everything.

[fujikosouvenir]

Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump no. 25, 1986

[troubledminnesotan]

There was a trend on Twitter of folks redrawing this panel of Akira Toriyama as themselves so my friends and I joined in

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