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 June 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Chrono, the main character from the video game Chrono Trigger:

CHRONO (from Chrono Trigger)
There were a bunch of key artwork illustrations drawn by Toriyama-sensei‘s own hand, and I loved it all, including them.

The main character’s name is often shortened to “Crono” due to spacing limitations for character names back during the original English localization.

The role-playing video game Chrono Trigger was originally developed by Square for the Nintendo Super Famicom / Super SNES, released March 1995 in Japan and August 1995 in America. The game was a product of the era’s so-called “Dream Team”: Final Fantasy franchise father Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest franchise father Yuji Horii, and artwork and character designs by Akira Toriyama. The game was notable for bringing together storytelling and design elements from both Sakaguchi’s and Horii’s respective game series, long before the Square and Enix merger eight years later.

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