Biography of Akira Toriyama - Dragon Ball Comic Creator

Biography of Akira Toriyama - Dragon Ball Comic Creator - Akira Toriyama was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on 5 April 1955, he is one of the legendary mangaka in Japan and even the world. He spawned many great works, including Dragon Ball, Fox Tale, and Blue Dragon. He also had to create a character for a video game then raised well into the manga and anime, the Dragon Quest. Akira Toriyama debuted in 1979 with his work entitled Wonder Island, published by Shonen Jump weekly. The first time he got fame through the manga and anime series Dr. Slump which originally appeared as a weekly series in Shonen Jump in the year 1980-1984.

In 1982, he received the Shogakukan Manga Award for Dr. Slump as the best in the category of shonen manga and Shojo Manga Series of the Year. It is difficult to determine the source of inspiration of artwork Akira Toriyama, he greatly admired the work of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney 101 Dalmantians whom he remembered as a great work of art. Early films Jackie Chan also has a marked influence on his work. Interestingly other mangaka works precisely influenced by the work of Akira sensei. Such mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter), Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), Hiro Mashima (Fairy Tail), Yoshio Sawai (Bobobo-bo Bobobo) and Tite Kubo (Bleach),

Akira Toriyama is recognized mostly for his work the main Dragon Ball. This is one of the works that penjadi cog to Akira Toriyama himself received the "Golden Age of Jump". Awards managed to encourage him to continue the Dragon Ball from 1984 to 1995. Over a period of 11 years, he produced 519 chapters collected in 42 volumes. Each volume has an average of 200 pages. . This is a major achievement for selling over 35 million copies in Japan, Dragon Ball eventually achieve the best sales record with more than 120 million copies sold. As well as in Japan, the series was also successful internationally, including in Europe in 1988, North America and Canada in 1996. In addition, benefits and other impacts of the manga he produced three adaptations of anime, animated movies, several video games, and his merchandise.

Although he had been planning to end Dragon Ball for a long time, eventually the editor agreed to let him end the manga, so he could "take some new steps in his life" as he said. A third anime adaptation, Dragon Ball GT is not based on the manga, but Akira Toriyama was still involved with overseeing the project despite limited production. Dragon Ball anime, including the sequel, spawned 500 episodes made in Japan. Produced and licensed for North America and Australia by FUNimation.

His works after Dragon Ball tend to be short (100-200 pages) including Cowa, Kajika!, And Sand Land, as well as the work of one-shots, like Neko Majin. Akira Toriyama worked on a one-shot called Cross Epoch, in cooperation with One Piece author Eiichiro Oda. Crossover short story presents the character of each of both the One Piece and Dragon Ball.

The design clean lines and sense of Akira Toriyama took a phenomenal character designer of the popular Dragon Quest RPG (formerly called Dragon Warior in North America). Akira Toriyama has also served as character designer for the Super Famicom RPG Chrono Trigger, Tobal no.1 the Fighting Game for Playstation (and sequel Tobal 2, released only in Japan) and for X-Box360 Mistwalker, Blue Dragon RPG special (and Anime adaptation).

In his studio is called "Bird Studio", taken from the name 'Tori' (Bird), Akira sensei did almost all his work; assistants mostly just working on the background image. The studio is currently not very active over the last few years, because it only worked on short works.

In 2009, Akira Toriyama was commissioned by Avex Trax to draw a portrait of pop singer, Ayumi Hamasaki, to be printed on a single CD entitled "Rule / Sparkle '. Akira Toriyama is also collaborating with the Shonen Jump directly to make a video to raise awareness and support for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku on March 11, 2011.

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