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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 came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball.
Dragon Ball Z [a] (DBZ) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation.Part of the Dragon Ball media franchise, it is the sequel to the 1986 Dragon Ball television series and adapts the latter 325 chapters of the original Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha.
Dragon Ball began as an adventure/gag manga but later turned into a martial arts fighting series, considered by many to be the "most influential shōnen manga". [6] It was one of the main reasons for Weekly Shōnen Jump ' s circulation hitting a record high of 6.53 million copies (1995), [ 8 ] and became Shueisha's second best-selling manga ...
By 1996, the first sixteen anime films up until Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995) had sold 50 million tickets and grossed over ¥40 billion ($501 million) at the Japanese box office, making it the highest-grossing anime film series up until then, in addition to selling over 500,000 home video units in Japan.
A selection of Dragon Ball ' s extensive cast of characters at the conclusion of the manga. Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, Dr. Slump.
Dragon Ball Z Kai [a] is a recut and remastered version of the long-running sequel anime television series Dragon Ball Z, produced to commemorate its 20th anniversary ...
Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 3 (ドラゴンボールZ 超武闘伝 (スーパーぶとうでん) 3, Doragon Bōru Z Sūpā Butōden 3, Dragon Ball Z: Super Fighting Legend 3), called Dragon Ball Z: Ultime Menace in France and in Spain (although it was translated as Dragon Ball Z: La Última Amenaza for the Spanish instruction manual), is the ...