Akira Toriyama's Autograph on Ebay.

El Diabeetus · Post by **El Diabeetus** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:32 pm

Uh no don't have the money or an eBay account.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:22 am

*facepalm*

Is it my jokes or is it my audience as to why I'm not a stand-up comedian?

Fushar · Post by **Fushar** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:54 am

Looks legit to me.

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:10 am

At least it's coming from a seller in Japan, I mean, I'm not saying that makes it a 100% chance of being legit...but I'd be more worried if it were from the U.S., Hong Kong, or you know...Zimbabwe.

KinoFourpaws · Post by **KinoFourpaws** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:26 pm

SonEric84 wrote:At least it's coming from a seller in Japan, I mean, I'm not saying that makes it a 100% chance of being legit...but I'd be more worried if it were from the U.S., Hong Kong, or you know...Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe seems pretty cool, though... :<

Well, the signature itself matches, and the style of the drawing doesn't really look THAT off to me. Perhaps it was an older sketch, drawn before Toriyama started changing his style to what he's using currently? I wouldn't be surprised...

Also, just thought I'd point this out: an artist may have a certain style of drawing to which he usually adheres, but any good one is well capable of drawing differently from his trademark style. Not only that, the way one sketches something quickly often looks different from the way one draws something deliberately (even if just a little more so). If it's just a sketch made to go along with the signature, you can't expect him to have taken very long with it and for it to look exactly the same as his usual style. And one sketch will be different from the next--they can't all look alike, right? It looks familiar enough to be something he might have drawn, so that's the important part.

Anyways. This is a cool find, SonEric. I know I won't be trying to get it, though. $450... I don't have that kind of money. D: (If I did, I'd be more likely to use it towards getting the DB DragonBox, anyway. That's way too much to ask for a signature and one drawing when I could use that money to get a TON of drawings instead. 8D; )

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:52 pm

KinoFourpaws wrote:
SonEric84 wrote:At least it's coming from a seller in Japan, I mean, I'm not saying that makes it a 100% chance of being legit...but I'd be more worried if it were from the U.S., Hong Kong, or you know...Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe seems pretty cool, though... :<

Well, the signature itself matches, and the style of the drawing doesn't really look THAT off to me. Perhaps it was an older sketch, drawn before Toriyama started changing his style to what he's using currently? I wouldn't be surprised...

Also, just thought I'd point this out: an artist may have a certain style of drawing to which he usually adheres, but any good one is well capable of drawing differently from his trademark style. Not only that, the way one sketches something quickly often looks different from the way one draws something deliberately (even if just a little more so). If it's just a sketch made to go along with the signature, you can't expect him to have taken very long with it and for it to look exactly the same as his usual style. And one sketch will be different from the next--they can't all look alike, right? It looks familiar enough to be something he might have drawn, so that's the important part.

Anyways. This is a cool find, SonEric. I know I won't be trying to get it, though. $450... I don't have that kind of money. D: (If I did, I'd be more likely to use it towards getting the DB DragonBox, anyway. That's way too much to ask for a signature and one drawing when I could use that money to get a TON of drawings instead. 8D; )

If I had the money, I'd probably be going for a Dragon Box or at least some of the singles myself. The only way I'd ever really go for a signature is if I could have Toriyama sign something for me in person. I just thought it was neat.

balrog · Post by **balrog** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:25 pm

5 hours left and no bids.

Looked like everyone else thought it was fake aswell

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:09 pm

I've gotten sketches from artists before that look totally different from their full art style. This was probably just for a fan done at a convention or something.

Acid_Reign · Post by **Acid_Reign** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:35 am

Speculation aside, at that much money, I'd need some serious certification before even considering this. Not only that, but signatures are really only good as ornaments or show-off items (if you don't intend to auction it off like this seller is doing). At least with the Dragon Boxes, Daizenshuu, etc. there is actual content there that you can get continued enjoyment out of. Cool as this is if it's real, it's just doesn't seem that practical to me.

Genki-Dama · Post by **Genki-Dama** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:20 pm

I guess that we will never know if its real or not.

Super 17 · Post by **Super 17** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:58 am

Also if you read it says that the dragonball franchise has 519 episdoes. It's actually 508 episodes, so this guy dosen't know that much. I'm pretty sure that's fake.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:00 am

Super 17 wrote:Also if you read it says that the dragonball franchise has 519 episdoes. It's actually 508 episodes, so this guy dosen't know that much. I'm pretty sure that's fake.

But, I'm also pretty bad at math. That doesn't make me a liar.