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Akira Toriyama
Aichi, Japan
Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognitio…
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Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.
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2026
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus
TV show Original Story
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2026
Dragon Ball: 40th Anniversary Special Video
Movie Original Story
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2024
Dragon Ball DAIMA
Movie Original Concept
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2024
Dragon Ball DAIMA
TV show Original Concept
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2024
Dragon Ball Z Kai
Movie Original Concept
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2024
SAND LAND: THE SERIES
TV show Original Story
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2023
Sand Land
Movie Comic Book
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2022
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Movie Screenplay
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2019
Dragon Quest: Your Story
Movie Character Designer
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2018
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Movie Screenplay
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2018
Dragon Ball Super: Broly - Skytree Super
Movie Original Concept
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2018
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
TV show Thanks
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2018
Super Dragon Ball Heroes
TV show Characters
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2017
Dragon Quest X: The Miracles of the Adventurers
Movie Character Designer
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2017
Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai
Movie Original Series Creator
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2016
Dragon Quest - 30th Anniversary NHK Special
Movie Self
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- 2016
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2015
Dragon Ball Z: The Fall of Men
Movie Characters
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2015
Dragon Ball Super
TV show Story
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2015
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
Movie Screenplay
- 2013
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2013
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
Movie Characters
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2011
Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
Movie Characters
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2010
Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
Movie Author
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2009
Dragon Ball Z Kai
TV show Original Story
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2009
Dragonball Evolution
Movie Comic Book
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2008
Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
Movie Characters
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2007
Dr. Slump: Dr. Mashirito and Abale-chan
Movie Creator
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2000
The World of Dragon Ball Z
Movie Creator
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1999
Dr. Slump: Arale's Surprise Bang
Movie Comic Book
- 1998
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1997
Dr. Slump
TV show Comic Book
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1997
Saving Soldier Cashman
Movie Original Story
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1997
Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy
Movie Characters
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1996
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power
Movie Comic Book
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1996
Dragon Ball GT
TV show Original Story
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1996
Nuumamonjaa: Time and Space Adventures
Movie Art Direction
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1995
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
Movie Characters
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1995
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
Movie Original Series Creator
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1995
Fantascience World Gulliver Boy
TV show Mechanical Designer
