The official Dragon Ball website’s nineteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a look at Toriyama’s 2003 children’s book, Toccio the Angel, about a naughty angel who befriends a sentient tank. In the book’s …
The official Dragon Ball website’s eighteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is one of three main color drawings provided by Toriyama for the production of the anime-only Dragon Ball GT television series, which ran …
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventeenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a citation for the original Chobit chapter from the 1983 #10 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 08 February 1983. Chobit — …
The official Dragon Ball website’s sixteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a set of character designs from 1986’s first theatrical Dragon Ball film, originally released 20 December 1986. The set of designs feature …
The official Dragon Ball website’s fifteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a sample from the second Bird Land Press release — the Akira Toriyama official fan club newsletter — from September 1983, with …
The official Dragon Ball website’s fourteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a four-panel comic drawn for the 1984 #5-6 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 05 January 1984. The #5-6 issue contained four-panel …
The official Dragon Ball website’s thirteenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the Dragon Ball chapter 187 title page from the 1988 #37 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (released 09 August 1988); this is …
The official Dragon Ball website’s twelfth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the cover illustration to the first bunko volume of Jean-Henri Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, translated by French-literature scholar/critic Daisaburō Okumoto. The artwork features …
The official Dragon Ball website’s eleventh entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is artwork of the main character from the 2010 Nintendo DS re-release of Dragon Quest VI (originally released in 1995 on the Super …
The official Dragon Ball website’s tenth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the key illustration and box cover art from the video game Dragon Quest II, released 26 January 1987 on the Nintendo Famicom …