AKIRA TORIYAMA

Personal information

Birth Name: Akira Toriyama

Birthdate: April 5, 1955 (60 years) Nagoya, Japan
Location: Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan
Nationality: Japanese

Family

Spouse: Yoshimi (Nachi Mikami)

Children: 2

Professional information

Occupation: manga artist, character designer, artist, writer, art director

Company: Shueisha, Bird Studio
Years active: 1978-present
Employer: Shueisha
Notable works: Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Super
Dragon Ball (Character Design)
Honours: Shogakukan Manga Award (1981)
Firm:

Biography

He entered 1973 in the Industrial High School, immediately after he was hired
by an advertising company in Nagoya, worked there for three years, but the
lack of interest and poor relationship with their bosses led to his decision to
retire and devote himself to manga . His life began with a mangaka publication
in Shonen Jump Shueisha. Later he would create many other stories for the
magazine and later collected in volumes. Toriyama became immensely popular
in Japan and abroad thanks to his work Dragon ball which has been seen by
more than three generations worldwide and which the protagonist of the anime
/ manga won the International Day celebration called Goku, also I think other
characters during the 1990s.

In Japan, however, remains a public figure and still lives in Aichi with his wife
and children, where his fame has caused some problems, for example,
whenever there is talk that will make any appearance in Tokyo office
government worries that sometimes crowds of fans throng near his home to
watch him leave and even accompanying a caravan to the airport; This
phenomenon says a lot about the popularity of Toriyama.

Despite his fame, in general, do not like Toriyama exposed in collective means
of communication and are very rare occasions when a journalist has managed
to take a photograph or interview to a foreign newspaper.

Work

Drawing attention of her former editor for the rest of his career, Kazuhiko
Torishima, with works like Awawa World and Mysterious Rain Jack (which was a
parody of Star Wars), he managed to debut at a young age as an artist in 1978,
Wonder Island story that was published in the weekly magazine Shonen
Jump. From that time he created a series of short stories as Tomato (outline of
what would Dr. Slump) and Today's Highlight Island. All had a moderate
acceptance among fans, and as a result the author was able to make his first
series.

Animes and Mangas

Dr. Slump, his first success

The rise to fame came with Dr. Slump, published in that magazine between
1980 and 1984. With it received in 1981 the Prize awarded by the Shogakukan
Manga Publishing. The acceptance of the manga was massive and, less than a
year after its appearance, the April 8, 1981, the first episode of the animated
series premiered. In total, 18 volumes of manga (40 in Spain, published by
Planeta DeAgostini) and the television series episodes exceeded 240, reaching
the final on 19 February 1986. Dr. Slump narrates the absurd adventures of
teacher collected Senbei Norimaki and his creation, a robot shaped like a 10
year old girl named Arale, and other inhabitants of a strange place called Villa
Penguin.

The series that would go down in history Akira Toriyama inside and outside
Japan, to the point of having become the world's most popular manga, Dragon
Ball was. Toriyama, Dr. Slump after writing had written a short story called
Dragon Boy, Dragon Ball is the reworking of Dragon Boy and his argument is
the adventures of Son Goku and his friends, amidst monumental search for the
seven Dragon Balls, whose union can invoke the presence of the Dragon God

After Dragon Ball

In the same year 1996, the company that performed the anime, Toei Animation,
tried to continue the story, but refused to produce Toriyama's Dragon Ball
manga, so Toei Animation decided to make itself an original series as a sequel
Dragon Ball Z, but at the request of Toei Animation, Akira Toriyama helped in
the project began with the design of the characters and main engines, three
conceptual art, and design and title of the series. Also in the anime he has
contributed least. Thus began Dragon Ball GT, which was not as successful as
previous versions (Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z). The GT stands for "grand
tour".

Manga Toriyama work performed after the end of Dragon Ball serialization have
been short stories (between 100 and 200 pages), including those found Cowa !,
Kajika, Sand Land, Neko Majin, among others.

Later in 2008 he contributed to the original concept of the new OVA Dragon
Ball Z (Ossu Kaette kita Son Goku to Nakamatachi !! -! Hey Goku and his
friends return.) To mark the 40th anniversary of the magazine Weekly Shonen

Jump. Recently she made the movie Dragon Ball Battle of the Gods, which was
released in theaters in March 2013, and Dragon Ball manga prequel called Jaco
galactic patrol.

Currently, and as with The Battle of the Gods, it makes a huge contribution in
the latest movie of Dragon Ball Z's Resurrection Freezer, budgeted to be
released in the "Golden Week" in Japan in 2015, a film which would be in
charge of art and history concept script and that it Toriyama said: We'll print to
film a story I wanted to Dragon Ball manga, but could not, and now it has given
me the opportunity.

Return to Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Super

The April 28, 2015 a new series of Dragon Ball, to be located after the Buu
saga, the end of Dragon Ball Z, and whose history is written and directed by
Akira Toriyama confirmed. The series premiered on Sunday, July 5, 2015 in
Japan.