Akira Toriyama1955 - 2024
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Biography
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.
Credits
2022
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
Screenplay, Story, Character Designer
2018
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
Screenplay, Story, Character Designer
2017
Action • Adventure • Animation
Original Series Creator
2013
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy
Characters
2008
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Science Fiction
Characters
1998
Animation • Comedy • Science Fiction
Writer
1988
Action • Adventure • Animation
Director, Character Designer, Writer, Comic Book
1986
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy • Science Fiction
Comic Book
1985
Animation • Comedy
Original Series Creator
1984
Animation • Comedy
Original Series Creator
1982
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy • Science Fiction
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