It's so crazy that you never really think about someone passing until it actually happens. I wake up everyday thinking that Toriyama is working on the next Dragon Ball Super chapter, or helping out with the next Dragon Ball movie, but here we are. Akira Toriyama truly is a man that we all have to thank for where we are now. I can’t even imagine what anime would be like here in America, without his influence. I feel like everyone can safely say that Dragon Ball Z is the anime that awakens many people's love for anime.
Toriyama’s art style was unique, and you can notice it with just a glance. It was actually the first art style I tried to imitate when I tried drawing. Rectangle eyes with big connecting eyebrows. Spiky hair, with a muscle body type. It was how I started and I feel like a lot of people started drawing anime art because of him, even if we didn’t keep at it. You can always notice Toriyama’s art style, examples like Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon, Dragon Quest, and Tobal No.1. just to name a few.
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And when a man can make a generation of young kids want to go super saiyan and yell at the top of their lungs like that would actually make it work. That’s when you know you’ve made it big.
And the big three mangakas, such as Eiichiro Oda, creator of One Piece, Masashi Kishimoto, creator of Naruto, and Tite Kubo, creator of Bleach, even had things to say.
No matter what you might think about Dragon Ball as a series or medium, as an art form, it changed history, a history that I now love and many others around the world do. The man was amazing at what he did and created. He will always be remembered as the man who changed the way people viewed anime and manga. Speaking of Dragon Ball and how it changed everything. This is a porn site, so let’s not forget to thank the man for all the amazingly hot waifus that he created and we get to enjoy in doujin form.
How did you feel after learning of Akira Toriyama’s passing? Did Dragon Ball change your life? Who is your favorite Dragon Ball waifu? Tell us in the comments.
I have to admit that I fully expected Masako Nozawa (i.e. Goku's Jp va) to predecease him since she's 87 to his "mere" 68, or even Gundam's Yoshiyuki Tomino since he had some sort of health scare a few years ago.
Huh... that means that of the big names who made manga "big", only Go Nagai is left.
RIP Akira Toriyama. Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty. That is the Turtle Hermit way.
Then along came Cheelai.
R.I.P, Toriyama-dono.