A mangaka is a person who draws comics. This is what Akira Toriyama is best known for. The man is incredibly talented, he devoted his life to achieving his goals. He gained even more fame through playing video games, but it is not clear if this would have happened if he had not had such a great practice in drawing comics.
Biography of Akira Toriyama
The man was born on April 5, 1955 and, as a child, he decided for himself that he wanted to draw and devote his whole life to it. After graduating from college, he got a job at the largest manga publishing house in Japan. A year later, his comics were published in Shonen Jump magazine, people were interested in him, but he did not receive much success. After that, it was published several more times, but the desired triumph still did not happen.
He got real recognition a few years later with a manga called Dr. Slump. Simultaneously with the manga that made him famous, he participated in an artist competition, which was held at the publishing house where he worked. Akira Toriyama won with his mini stories.
Akira's most famous work is Dragonball. The manga consists of 42 volumes, 4 films and 153 episodes of a television series have also been made. The man himself said that he was inspired by his previous work, Dragon boy, for this manga. The story tells about a boy who was engaged in martial arts. However, the work was never completed. After the furore, Toriyama decided to release a continuation of the manga called Dragon ball Z. The second part is slightly different from the first, it is more serious, it has less humor and more martial arts.
Video game work
After the second part was no less successful than the first, anime studios decided to continue. The man practically did not participate in the creation of the third part, he only advised the studios. Akira himself became interested in video games, which during this period were actively developed and distributed throughout the world. In video games, he helped with design, here are some of his works:
- Dragon Quest.
- Chrono Trigger.
- Torneko Big Adventure.
- Tobal Nr. 1.
Akira Toriyama even has his own studio, the name of which can be translated as "mountain bird". The artist's work, all his short stories are mainly created for children, and only the most famous manga is aimed at teenagers.