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 September 2024 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Toki, the main character from the Akira Toriyama one-shot Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe.

Toki
It was just a one-shot, but Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe was like one of those chapters in a serial that just make your heart dance with joy! I sometimes find myself having these wild fantasies, wondering if Sensei ever thought about maybe continuing the story…

It was never released in a collected edition, so I really treasure my copy of the issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump where it was published!

Kintoki: Toki of the Golden-Eyed Tribe is a single-chapter (“one-shot”) manga by Akira Toriyama which ran in the 2010 No. 50 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released 15 November 2010 in Japan, as part of the magazine’s “Top of the Super Legends” series.

Merluza, the fortune-teller and self-styled “Venusian” from Kintoki, makes a cameo appearance in the bottom-left of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman‘s fifth chapter title page:

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