Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his May 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Chuji Wu, the main character from the video game Tobal No. 1:

CHUJI WU (from Tobal No. 1)

It’s a game where Toriyama-sensei not only designed the characters, but also suggested their backgrounds and the world they inhabit. It’s a game I have fond memories of playing into the wee hours of the morning with friends.

As with games such as Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger, Toriyama contributed character designs for Tobal No.1, a fighting game developed by DreamFactory for Square, originally released in Japan in August 1996. Toriyama’s robo-persona — used both as a self-insert character in various series as well as in otherwise “real-life” depictions — first made an appearance as a hidden playable character in Tobal No. 1, requiring the player to complete Udan’s Dungeon in the game’s quest mode. While Tobal No.1 received an American release in 1996, Tobal 2 unfortunately never received an international release.

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.