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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.
Akira Toriyama
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for Producer in DRAGON BALL: ATTACK OF THE SAIYANS (LIVE ACTION MOVIE)
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5 YEARS AFTER GOKU'S FIGHT WITH PICCOLO JR GOKU TAKES HIS AND CHI-CHI'S 4-YEAR-OLD SON GOHAN TO A reunion AT KAME-HOUSE BUT THEN FROM SPACE A NEAR HUMAN ALIEN WITH A TAIL LIKE THE ONE GOKU HAD AS A CHILD AND VERY LONG HAIR ARRIVES AND SHOWS UP AT KAME-HOUSE REVIALING HIMSELF TO BE NAMED RADITZ AND TO BE GOKU'S OLDER BROTHER AND THAT THEY ARE PART OF AN APE/MONKEY-LIKE ALIEN WARRIOR RACE CALLED SAIYANS AND THAT GOKU WAS SENT TO EARTH AS A BABY AND THAT MOST SAIYANS ARE SENT TO EARTH AS BABIES TO TAKE OVER PLANETS WITH RADITZ BELIVING THAT GOKU WAS SENT TO EARTH FOR THAT REASON WITH RADITZ KIDDNAPING GOHAN SO GOKU AND PICCOLO JR (NOW JUST GOING BY PICCOLO) TEAM UP TO STOP RADITZ WITH GOKU GIVING UP HIS LIFE TO STOP RADITZ BUT RADITZ NEAR DEATH REVEALS THAT 2 MORE SAIYANS NAPPA AND VEGETA WILL BE COMING TO EARTH TO COLLECT THE DRAGON BALLS AND KILL EVERYONE IN 1-YEAR SO PICCOLO TAKES GOHAN TO TRAIN MEANWHILE GOKU TRAINS IN THE AFTER-LIFE AFTER THE 1 YEAR NAPPA KILLS EVERYONE WHO GOES TO FIGHT HIM AND VEGETA EXCEPT GOHAN AND KRILLIN BUT THEN GOKU RETURNS AND KILLS NAPPA AND DEFEATS VEGETA BUT WITH EVERYONE DEAD THE REMAINING Z-FIGHTERS DECIDE TO GO TO KING PICCOLO/KAMI'S ORIGINAL HOME WORLD OF NAMEK TO WISH EVERYONE INCLUDING PICCOLO AND KAMI BACK
