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The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-eighth 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 collection of rough sketches circa 1988 for character designs at the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai. The website’s commentary notes that this is […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-seventh 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 preview for additional Dr. Slump from its premiere in the 1980 #5-6 doubble issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (released 05 January […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-sixth 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 reverse side of the second “Dr. Slump Hoyoyo Card” that came with the 1980 #41 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, released […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-fifth 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 postcard sent out to members of Toriyama’s fanclub in May 1987: I’ve had a lot going on so it’s been a […]
Alongside a two–part podcast series on this material, we are excited to debut a new expansion in our “Manga Guide“: — Dragon Ball Prototypes — The main listing page contains links to overviews of Dragon Boy and The Adventure of Tongpoo, two short stories Akira Toriyama developed and published in 1983 that served as obvious […]
Each month, Toyotarō provides a sketch — as well as a brief comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website for a character that has not yet appeared in Dragon Ball Super. Thus far, Toyotarō has provided sketches of #8, Lunch, Chapa with Oob, and Tambourine. For his April entry, Toyotarō has contributed a […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-fourth 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 piece of artwork and its accompanying message created for the Dragon Ball Kai premiere at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-third 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 series of design drafts for the title screen of the Dragon Ball Z television series, which debuted 29 years ago today […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-second 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 Toriyama’s character design for Chaco Yutani, a new character introduced for Tobal 2, released on the original Sony PlayStation 21 years ago […]
The official Dragon Ball website’s seventy-first 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 illustration used for the cover of the November 2010 issue of Armour Modelling (released 13 October 2010): The illustration depicts Japanese […]
