#Naho ooishi

[secretsofdbz]

Bardock! Tōma! Selipa! Toteppo! Banpūkin! Together we are… The Saiyan special forces! (Tokusentai Tokusentai 🎶)

(What was this thing you made me do?)

(It was fun wasn’t it?)

DBSD Bardock special from the little episode of Bardock manga by Naho Ooishi.

[dragon-ball-meta]

I wish that Toriyama had made Naho Ooishi his 'successor' over Toyotaro. Looking over her work on Dragonball SD, Son Goku and Friends and heck, even the non-canon Episode of Bardock, she clearly understands the characters and source material. Not to mention she's a superb artist.

I really like her art style. It resembles Toriyama's without trying to look like a direct copy. And yeah, I do agree she gets the characters better than Toyotaro seems to.

[adair-trashart]

i dont know if anyone else did this but im doing it anyways a lot of it is pulled from his list of works wikipedia page but id figure i could at least make it easier to immediately see where to experience a lot of this stuff since a lot of it can be confusing to find super long post ahead

List of Akira Toriyama's stuff he did you can experience in some way:

(* means digital is the only option for people afraid of buckaneers and scallywags ** means the seven seas are the only (easily accessible to most) option ^ means it is (at least somewhat affordably) available physically or digitally, but not in English)

Manga

Dragon Ball related things:

Dragon Ball (the manga that Dragon Ball Z was adapted from is considered to be still a part of the original series. the manga relevant to that is/was sold over here as the Dragon Ball Z manga, but I'm not sure whats going on with that. can someone whos more of a dragon ball superfan help me figure that out a little???????? even the wiki articles are confusing me on this)

Dragon Ball Super (concepts, storyline, some storyboards and dialogue. It is mainly done by Toyotarou and was released at the same time as the anime before the manga got ahead of it)

Dragon Ball: The Return of Son Goku and Friends! (adaptation of the OVA. overseen storyboards and gave advice to Naho Ooishi. According to the intro he sees this as better than the special this was based off of)

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman

Neko Majin^

Kochira Namekku-sei Dragon Kōen-mae Hashutsujo** (a crossover chapter with KochiKame that apparently appears in Cho KochiKame)

Cross Epoch** (One Piece crossover one-shot)

Things you can experience through Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater:

Wonder Island/Wonder Island 2

Today's Highlight Island

Tomato the Cutesy Gumshoe

Pola & Roid

Escape

Mad Matic

Pink: The Rain Jack Story

Chobit/Chobit 2 (not to be confused with Chobits by CLAMP)

Dragon Boy

Mr. Ho

Lady Red

Young Master Ken'nosuke

The Elder

Little Mamejiro

Karamaru and the Perfect Day

Soldier of Savings Cashman

Dub & Peter 1

Go! Go! Ackman

Alien X-Peke

Sachie-shan Good!!

Jiya

Other manga:

Dr. Slump

Rocky** (Dr. Slump spinoff)

Dr. Mashirito – Abale-chan** (Dr. Slump spinoff)

Wolf** (accessible through the artbook Akira Toriyama: The World)

Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo**

Tokimecha**

Majin Mura no Bubul** (prototype for Cowa!)

Cowa!*

Kajika^

Mahimahi the Lungfish**

Hyowtam!**

Sand Land

Oishii Shima no Ū-sama** (an educational manga whose only PDF online is no longer accessible. images of it are on the Dragon Ball fandom wiki, but I can't navigate the websites linked very easily since I dont speak Japanese)

Kintoki**

Awawa World** and Mysterious Rain Jack** (unpublished early works)

Art books:

Akira Toriyama: The World** (vaguely more affordable on Amazon but I'd rather not give them money right now)

Akira Toriyama: The World Special** (I don't know what the difference is but it is way more expensive)

Dragon Ball Daizenshu: The Complete Illustrations**

Dragon Quest Monsters: Akira Toriyama Illustrations (the 30th anniversary version is fairly cheap by artbook standards)

Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Monster Encyclopedia^

Dragon Ball: A Visual History (secondhand prices are decent on some websites)

Work he did on anime:

Crusher Joe* - MAX 310 space station (image found in the video linked at the bottom of this page)

Kosuke & Rikimaru: The Dragon of Konpei Island** (original concept, script, character designs)

Imagination Science World Gulliver Boy (mechanical designs. wikipedia is vague and the bottom of this link is the only thing i could find of specific concept art (mild buggish warning i guess))

Dragon Ball GT (yes, believe it or not he was mildly involved. he did character designs and made the name and logo)

Sand Land (the anime was supposed to come later this month, and he worked on some kind of new story for it. there is also a video game that's supposed to come out later this year and we will see by then if he had any further involvement in that)

Lumping the rest of the anime first Dragon Ball stuff here:

Dragon Ball: The Return of Son Goku and Friends!** (original and story concepts)

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (original and story concepts, character designs)

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (original concept, screenplay, character designs, title)

Dragon Ball Super (original and story concepts, character designs, title, released at the same time as the manga before the manga overtook it)

Dragon Ball Super: Broly and Super Hero (original concept, screenplay, character designs)

Dragon Ball Daima (original concept, story, character designs, was supposed to come out this fall)

Anime adaptations (and adjacent things) of his stuff:

Dragon Ball stuff:

Dragon Ball tv series

Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure

Dragon Ball: The Path to Power

Goku's Traffic Safety and Goku's Fire Brigade** (theyre both PSAs, easily accessible through unofficial YouTube uploads)

Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins** (unlicensed Taiwanese live action remake of Curse of the Blood Rubies)

Dragon Ball: Fight Son Goku, Win Son Goku** (unlicensed Korean live action adaptation)

Dragonball Evolution (very loose western adaptation that somehow has a game on the PSP)

Dragon Ball Z stuff:

Dragon Ball Z tv series

All of the Dragon Ball Z movies (seriously there's so many and I even checked each movie individually if yarhargle is the only option. it is not but it's also $3.99 per movie so keep that in mind)

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku

Dragon Ball Z: Summer Vacation Special**

Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks

Looking Back at it All: The Dragon Ball Z Year-End Show!**

Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans**

The World of Dragon Ball Z (English dub exclusive OVA, uses both the BLT/Ocean dub and the in-house Funimation dub)

Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (OVA adaptation of Naho Ooishi's manga)

Other stuff:

Dr. Slump Arale-chan(**?) (first adaptation, unsure if truly otherwise inaccessible since it has a very unsearchable name for search engines)

Dr. Slump 1997 tv series

Dr. Slump movies**

Pink: Water Bandit, Rain Bandit**

Go! Go! Ackman**

Work he did for video games:

Dragon Quest series (character designs)

Dragon Ball: Shenlong no Nazo** (character designs)

Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (designed Dark Raid)

Chrono Trigger* (character and setting designs, helped with animation for the 1999 PlayStation port)

Tobal No. 1 and Tobal 2** (character designs)

Blue Dragon* and Blue Dragon Plus** (character designs, there's also a Blue Dragon anime but I don't know how involved he was)

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow** (character designs, voice of Toripo)

Chōsoku Henkei Gyrozetter** (designed Beeman 500SS)

Dragon Ball FighterZ (designed Android 21)

Dragon Ball Legends* (designed Shallot and Zahha)

Jump Force (several original character designs. I have no idea who Wikipedia meant by this)

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (designed Bonyū)

Fantasian* (designed a diorama used for a level)

Shueisha related stuff:

just assume theyre all highly unavailable and poorly archived online i can't even find archives of mainstream magazines from the us half the time

Weekly Shōnen Jump (designed Captain Gyao for the 20th anniversary, designed Kaizo-kun for the website. I cant navigate that website very well so can someone else find Kaizo-kun for me??????)

V Jump (designed V Dragon)

Weekly Jump F-1 Club (designed the mascot Wins-kun)

V-Net (designed the mascots Dr. Tobo and Happy 1)

Souvenirs entomologiques: Shueisha Bunko edition of the Japanese translation (cover illustrations, here is the link (super realistic big bugs warning)

Shueisha (designed Rīdon for the 25th anniversary of Shueisha Bunko)

Dragon Ball Damashii (logo design)

Jump Shop (designed Janta)

My Jump (designed Mai and Honbot)

Other things:

Fuel Album by George Tokoro (insert illustration)

Fire! Staff Tripper by Akira Sakuma (album cover, notably not mentioned on Wikipedia, possibly lost media, thanks to @/ToriyamasArt on Twitter for providing an English name)

Polkadot Magic by Mami Koyama (album cover, lyrics for "Crilla" and "Helicopter)

Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens (logo for the koala exhibit)

Fine Molds (packaging and instructions illustrations for the Lisa model, designed the mascot Goshikiken, designs packaging and instructions for seven World Fighter Collection models)

Dakara Bike Daisuki! by Haruka Takachiho (cover art)

Super Sense Story (character designs, it's a road safety brochure for Honda and I can't find images for it)

Bitch's Life Illustration File (illustration, I have no idea how many)

Toccio the Angel** (writer and illustrator, it's a children's book)

QVOLT (it's a car, he designed it)

Rule/Sparkle by Ayumi Hamasaki (art of Hamasaki dressed as Goku on the CD and DVD (image is accessible on the Dragon Ball fan wiki)

Ichigo Dōmei by Chiaki** (cover art)

Invade by jealkb (album art)

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (promotional poster art)

Dr. Mashirito's Saikyō Manga Jutsu by Kazuhiko Torishima** (cover art)

Kiyosu (20th anniversary city logo)

Sources:

List of works by Akira Toriyama (a lot of it was also connected pages and me individually searching for different things listed)

Dragon Ball fan wiki

Dr. Slump fan wiki

this Kazenshuu forum post by Angelus about Akira Toriyama's earlier manga, including the unpublished stuff

the news section of the official Dragon Ball website

this page on the KochiKame fan wiki

this article for crusher joe and the video linked in it

various 🏴‍☠️ websites i wont list here specifically because loose lips sink ships (they're not hard to find if you care that much)

various IMDB pages (largely for finding ways to watch for people unable or unwilling to do the only other alternative)

this Hungarian website where I found the Dragon Ball Damashii image

jump shop (janta is fortunately plastered all over the place so i could find example images easily)

@/ToriyamasArt on Twitter for the bug covers in the Shueisha section and an English translation for the name Fire! Staff Tripper

This website (in Portugeuse) that has a lot of the art in the other things section

this archive of Toccio the Angel

anonymous Blogspot post covering QVOLT

jealkb Invade CD listing with the jpged image

allocine.fr is where i got the Journey to the West poster but it gave me some unavoidable pop up that's seemingly immune to Firefox's website translator and i already spent 5 hours on this post so screw that website

Kiyosu logo source (their image breaks on Tumblr so i screenshotted it)

[laladbzland]

[msdev205]

As it would be if Frost had his own empire of space pirates … or at least one family… they would be Zarbon, Dodoria and The Ginyu Force of Universe 6: Budo, Supa and The Oniyu Squad If you wonder who the Oniyu squad is, they are manga characters created by Naho Ooishi. They come out in a manga called Oh! New gadget super lovers … But as I liked the make canon’s of universe 6. His designs fit that universe. Budo and Supa are Oc¨s created by me based on the pink and green duo.

What do you think???

[cowcat44]

Illustration by Naho Ooishi

[cerospace]

Toyotaro’s probably a great, great guy, but I’m wondering if he was really the right guy to do a big project like the DBS manga. Before doing Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission and the three-chapter promotional adaptation of Resurrection “F”, he seemingly only had done his four-and-a-half volume Dragon Ball AF series and the one shot Raditz origin story. I’m not saying his AF series was bad, nor should doujin authors be asked to do official spin off series, it’s that I think that he career moved up far too quickly. By the time Toyo was starting Victory Mission in 2012, Naho Ooishi had done the manga adaptation of the 2008 Jump Jest OVA, a year after its release, Episode of Bardock in 2011, and had been doing Oh!! New Gadget Super Lovers and Dragon Ball SD since 2008-and-10 respectively. Ooishi, like Toyotaro, started off as a doujin artist, with what I can find, also did about four-to-five books, before being contacted by Shueisha to draw official DB spin off material. I just don’t understand why new guy was chosen to be the one in charge of your big, tie in manga, and not the person who’s been working for you for years. 

I dunno. I feel like I’ve just typed out so much, and truly said nothing. What I do know is that Ooishi deserves more respect, and gets far too much shit for Episode of Bardock! It’s a dumb “what if?” story based off the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game! 

[mozillavulpix]

I was just watching MistareFusion’s video about Episode of Bardock (and it’s really good, obviously. Watch Lance’s stuff. We will keep saying that until you do), and it made me think.

One thing that particularly bothered him about Episode of Bardock (and something he specifically praised the original Bardock special for avoiding) was that it made Bardock ‘special’. While the implication in the original is he’s just an average low-class warrior, and even the ‘special’ elements he gets either don’t change the essence of his character or barely mean anything in the long run, Bardock in Episode of Bardock gets a happy ending, becomes worthy of Freeza’s (or someone like Freeza’s) attention, and even gets to be the original legendary Super Saiyan. Somehow. Through time travel. Somehow.

Lance in particular hated this, and for good reason. It goes against everything he thought his character represented, to the point you wonder how the people writing Episode of Bardock even liked the character in the first place.

But now I’m wondering if it it’s less of the fact that Bandai and Naho Ooishi failed to appreciate his character as it was the fact that...they just liked Bardock for very different reasons than a lot of us.

It’s very easy to take the intellectual high ground and explain that we know better, but it’s also easy to understand that some people don’t care about how Bardock was a tragic figure and a failure and not even such a good guy in the grand scheme of things. They just liked Bardock because he looked cool, had some cool fight scenes and an awesome theme song. They were the people who liked that, in the original special, he had a battle power of 10,000, and plowed through Freeza’s soldiers in the climax. And that’s all they necessarily wanted or needed from any other material that brought him back.

I say this because a lot of ‘fans’ of certain characters in this franchise I also feel like fail to understand what the character was, if not actually presented as, heavily implied to be.

I’m mainly thinking of Gohan and Vegeta fans here. There’s the Gohan fans who only appreciate him for his ‘badass’ moments. You know...all two of them in the entire franchise (and only one of those ended up being actually important in the long run). And Vegeta fans who could never accept that at the end of the day, he may not be able to surpass Goku. Even though Vegeta himself accepted that at the end of the series.

Now, I would hate if the series started pandering to those kinds of fans and ideas (and really, it already has). So I also understand why Episode of Bardock hit people in the same place.

Basically, it was the realisation that you could talk about the subtle complexities of a story and a character all you wanted. But for every one of you, there’s going to be three people who aren’t even interested in talking about those complexities and just want to see them get the newest form and punch people even harder.

And, you know, at least that’s excusable if those people are all 12-year-old-boys. But if this franchise is pandering to those people...it makes it very hard for you to convince yourself to see Dragon Ball as anything more than that. A story by 12-year-olds, for other 12-year-olds.

It’s pretty disheartening.

But at least the original series exists. No amount of retcons can take the meaning you find from that away from you.

[secretsofdbz]

So I got my filthy hands on the two small "volumes" of the original Manga that contains Yo Son Goku and Friends Return (by Ooishi Naho, you know, the DBSD person, who was a doujin artist prior).

Cuteness alert!

She’s holding onto his tail!!

I repeat!

Gure is hiding behind Tarble and holding onto his taaaaailll!

[dragon-ball-meta]

People still don't know Toriyama's only stated successor is his son, Sasuke, who we don't even have a picture of?

I don't think we have a "stated" successor at all, tbh. Sasuke helped his dad on Super Hero, we know that much, but a lot of Sasuke's "successor" role would just naturally be helping manage his dad's estate, dunno what he'll be doing outside that yet. Toyotaro, similarly, was a protege. An apprentice. That's not an heir apparent, it's someone he saw talent in whom he tried to help get a jump start into the industry and eventually do his own thing. Naho Ooishi had the same role under Toriyama as well. Right now, the only entities we know are continuing Dragon Ball moving forward are Toei Animation, Shueisha, Bird Studio/Toriyama's estate, and Capsule Corporation Tokyo & Iyoku. We're going to have to wait and see what the future holds.

[laladbzland]

[majinbuddha]

Akira Toriyama is to be making a new Dragon Ball series alongside mangaka Naho Ooishi, The creator of the 2008 Dragon Ball Z special "Yo! son goku and friends return". called, Dragon Ball Hoshi. Ooishi will be making a manga that continues the Z Manga past the Buu saga. It? will have a newly designed Super Saiyan 4, and even a Super Saiyan 5. Akira Toriyama will be assisting her and backing off. The events in japan (earthquake, tsunami) slowed this down now Toriyama is taking care of that. launching in 2012/2013

[jeannevalois]

 Do you know anything about this? Enlighten me!

[dragon-ball-meta]

Since your feelings on Toyotaro are quite clear, who would you have replace him as the writer and artist of the Super manga?

I liked Naho Ooishi. She def took direction better, and her art was more HER style as opposed to trying to copy Toriyama’s, yet still recognizable as DB. It also flows better.

[dragon-ball-meta]

Do people go to bat for Toyo? I'd go to bat for Naho Ooishi before him personally. Not that anyone really talks about her anymore.

Yes. He has some very hardcore stans. Some even say he's a better writer and artist than Toriyama was at his peak.

[dragon-ball-meta]

I mean, Toyotaro was picked Toriyama to be his successor and has helped design several characters in the Tournament of Power, him not having some influence on the franchise is kind of a lost cause.

Eh, not exactly. Toriyama’s first actual apprentice was Naho Ooishi, and he had expressed a desire for HER to potentially continue DB someday. Toyotaro was selected (at least partly, I believe) by Shueisha.