Akira Toriyama, the head figure of the extremely loved and admired Dragon Ball franchise, has died and the world of anime and pop culture is in sadness. A message posted via Twitter/X states that as per Japanese news reports the famous author died on pace moderate 1str march of acute subdural hematoma gakuzan rule to kin’s address during.” It was also mentioned that he had had his family and almost no one else except a “very few close friends” during his last days.
The statement goes on to note that both Toriyama and the Bird Studio, which Il founded, are not accepting any flowers and condolences gifts and anything else. They instead requested that the family be left alone and all people “do not go to interviews with them” about her. Bird studio understood that the artist was having “some works in progress” when he went out to breathe his last.
Who was Akira Toriyama?
1955 born Toriyama in Japan gained fame as a manga artist and an accidents characterization development. The first work published of a Toriyama was a one-shot called Wonder Island that was on the pages of manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump as far back as 1978.
His major achievement initially happened in 1980 with the creation and release of the manga Dr. Slump, which would last until 1984. In the same year, Toriyama will forever change the face of the anime and manga soil as well as leave an indelible mark in the anime land with the launch of Dragon Ball, the greatest work of his career and one of the most important and influential franchises of all time.
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In 2000, he came out with the || Sand Land and anime film was released in 2023, that includes the manga adapted to its anime TV version which features a story that does not have connections to its manga.
Many people were inspired by the artist as the list of such creators includes the name of Eiichiro Oda who is the creator of One piece and has kind remarks about Toriyama:
“The wound he created will never heal. Just the very thought of never seeing him again makes me sad. (…) It was like I was watching a hero march on with an army. All the good and the high feeling energy which was devoted to Dragon Ball during its serialization days must reside in the childhood of the creators of all the industries. He is like a big trunk of tree which has a lot of branches.”