Happy Birthday Mr. Toriyama!!

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:18 pm

April 5th is his birthday (only reason I know that is because it's the same as my sister's). So Happy Birthday.

LSSJ4 · Post by **LSSJ4** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:23 pm

Yay, may he and his (whatever is left of it) memory continue for years to come.

Person 1: Happy birthday Mr. Toriyama
AT: Who?!

SaiyaMel · Post by **SaiyaMel** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:24 pm

Mr Toriyama - you da man!

Happy b-day!

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:34 pm

Alrighty, who we gonna stuff into a cake and ship to him? Anyone? Any takers?

Is it gonna have to be me again?

Super 17 · Post by **Super 17** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:38 pm

DemonKingPiccolo wrote:April 5th is his birthday (only reason I know that is because it's the same as my sister's). So Happy Birthday.

Kageyama Hironobu's birthday is on August 27. How do I know that? I know that because that's my sister's birthday too. Haha. Naw i'm kidding. May Akira Toriyama have a wonderful birthday and a remembered one too.

AnzuMazaki · Post by **AnzuMazaki** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:38 pm

Happy Bday Toriyama

Calcaneus · Post by **Calcaneus** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:00 pm

SSj Kaboom wrote:Alrighty, who we gonna stuff into a cake and ship to him? Anyone? Any takers?

Is it gonna have to be me again?

I could ask my friend to send a cake, he's good friends with Mr. Toriyama.

El Diabeetus · Post by **El Diabeetus** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:00 pm

Happy Birthday, Mr. Toriyama!

I hope he enjoys his birthday.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:11 pm

LSSJ4 wrote:
Person 1: Happy birthday Mr. Toriyama
AT: Who?!

LMAO this gave me a large laugh.
Happy B-day Toriyama!

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:07 pm

HBD Mr.Toriyama! It's also my sweetheart's birthdate as well. *celebrates. I'll secretly toast to ya!

DaemonCorps · Post by **DaemonCorps** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:32 am

Happy B-Day, Toriyama! Hope you're enjoying being another year older. I hear just having millions upon millions of dollars (er, yen?) work wonders on your age.

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:44 am

Happy Birthday! (Even though he'll never see it.

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Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:36 am

Really?! WOW, Happy Birthday Mr. Toriyama.

...I must draw something for this.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:41 am

Alright!

Happi Basuday Toriyama Sensei!!!

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:29 am

Happy Birthday Toriyama!

The Jump Square site has a preview up for the Toriyama/Katsura project. Looks very Dr. Slump-esque.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:42 am

Sebastian (SB) wrote:Happy Birthday Toriyama!

The Jump Square site has a preview up for the Toriyama/Katsura project. Looks very Dr. Slump-esque.

It looks like Mr Toriyama's the writer and Mr Katsura's the artist.
I like it.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:52 am

Maybe with some chance Toriyama could notice this if it got posted at main site

Post by **Herms** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:54 am

Happy birthday to one of the all-time greats! For the record, he's 53 years old today.

In commeration, he's something I translated from Daizenshuu 4: the vaious "Akira Toriyama's Best" sections. These are a series of questions answered by Toriyama about his favorite things from Dragon Ball. Planet Namek.com used to have at least part of them up (possibly only the character section). Anyway, here it is:

Akira Toriyama’s Best

Character Section

Q: If you were to draw another “Dragon Ball”, who would the protagonist be?

Mister Satan.
A: “Mister Satan would be the one I’d want to make into the protagonist. How about a gag manga with him and Buu?”

Q: Who would you want as your kid? Who would you want as your parent?
As a kid: Dende
“He’s serious and can heal his own injuries. But he looks a little strange, so I guess he’d be picked on at school.”

As a parent: Bulma
“I’d be very rich, so I’d be relatively left to myself.”

Q: Who seems like they will live the longest, and who seems like they will die the earliest?

Looks like he’ll live long: Kame-sennin
“It seems that he will live a surprisingly long time”

Looks like he’ll die early: Vegeta
“Everybody dies eventually, but Vegeta seems like he has high blood pressure so he’ll probably go suddenly”

Q: If you were to be reincarnated, who would you want to be?

Trunks
“It’d be nice to be the Trunks who doesn’t have the painful past. I’d be rich, be able to buy lots of toys, and be real strong. That’s what it seems like superficially.”

Q: Out of all your characters, which one is the most ______?

Cool: Goku
“I think it’s Goku.”

Gourmet: Satan
“I get the sense that he eats expensively. He’s high-class, but an OK sort.”

Shy: Piccolo
“I feel that the Namekians are basically a shy race.”

Fashionable: Trunks
“I thought it’d be Bulma, but once she became an old lady she dresses out of fashion.”

Mischievous: Kame-sennin
“Of course it’d have to be this guy.”

Settings Section

Q: Which settings are you fond of from a design standpoint?

1. Karin Tower
“My favorite is Karin Tower. A place built on top of a slender poll is interesting even if viewed from the center of the picture. It’s good even though it gives off an unbalanced feeling. I really like building designs like this, that couldn’t exist in reality.”

2. Kami-sama’s temple
“There’s something interesting about places that float in the air. I also like places that are unusually shaped.”

Q. If you were to travel, which place would you like to go to?

1. Kami-sama’s temple
“Sure enough, it’s Kami-sama’s temple. Just to sight-see. I want to see what’s inside.”

2. West City
“I don’t like cities very much, but it’s OK to go just once.”

3. Kaioshin Realm
“Something about it seems to have a nice feeling. It seems like I could pass the time peacefully. The climate looks nice as well.”

Q. What place do you think you’d like to live at?

Kame House
“It seems like shopping would be a pain, but if I had a mecha to go over the water with, and as long as a typhoon didn’t come, then Kame House is where I’d most like to live.” He’d like to live there even more if the island was a little bigger and there was a gigantic Kame House the size of Capsule Corporation.

Martial Arts Section

Q. If you were to choose the best shot of the Kamehameha, whose shot would you pick?

Kame-sennin’s Kamehameha
“The one that left the most impression was the very first one, the one Kame-sennin put out. Because the history of the Kamehameha started from here. Besides, I think its shape when he fires it was effective.”

Q. Which techniques would you like to learn?

1. Bukujutsu
“It must feel good to fly freely through the sky. I think it’d definitely be a good feeling. Besides, don’t you think it would be pretty useful in your daily life?

2. Shunkan-ido
“Shunkan-ido would probably be pretty good too. I could go to places I like just by thinking about them.”

3. Kamehameha
“The Kamehameha! I think it’d be amazing to break things all over the place with it. But afterwards it’d be a pain to have to go reimburse everyone.”

Q. Which techniques are you found of?

1. Kamehamha
“I really don’t like techniques all that much, but with the Kamehameha isn’t it interesting how it stores everything up and then releases it all at once? The Kamehameha is the one I’m the most fond of. It was my wife who thought up the name.”

2. Clash Ultra Buu-Buu Volleyball
“This one I liked. It’s really ludicrous but amusing. I was pleased with it.”

3. Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack
“I like the ghosts too. It was crazy to have a technique with a will of it’s own for the first time.”

Q. Would you tell us what battles you’re fond of?

1. Son Goku vs. Piccolo Daimao
“Piccolo Daimao. Since it was the first battle with a truly evil guy, there was a certain something to the fight.”

2. Gotenks vs. Majin Buu
“I think this was the first fight in a long time where I was able to do things my way. I drew relatively a lot of things like that during this period.”

Q. What about famous fights from the Tenkaichi Budoukai?

Son Goku vs. Tenshinhan
“Thinking of a famous fight, it’d be Goku and Tenshinhan. It’s because their ability was almost exactly equal.”

Science and Super Science Section

Q. Which item from Dragon Ball do you think you would most like to have?

Hoi-Poi Capsules
“Capsules! I think I’d want some capsules if I was going on a trip. And then, when there wasn’t any parking space, that’s when I’d want them the most. They certainly are convenient. Since I think their weight probably doesn’t change, I’d stuff anything into them. But what would happen if someone was still inside?”

Q. What item made even you think “This is amazing!”?

Hoi-Poi Capsules
“I guess it'd have to be Hio-Poi Capsules? Even in a manga they are convenient. At first the series was a road manga, so if they went to various places without carrying any luggage it’d be strange if they then suddenly brought out luggage. If you just put items and vehicles into capsules, then it’s relatively convenient.”

Q. Who are your favorite Artificial Humans?

1. Second-form Cell
“Cell’s second form, that tough guy. When I told Kondou-san, my editor at the time, ‘This is what I’ve come up with’ he told me ‘Hey, this guy is stupid-looking. Make him into his completed form soon.’ Actually, I had planned on him having a more active role.”

2. Artificial Human No.18
“No.18 was a type of girl that I hadn’t drawn before, so I was relatively pleased with her. I like her slanted eyes.”

3. Artificial Humans No.19 and No.20
“Speaking of slanted eyes, I also like No.19 and No.20. At first I thought I’d have No.20 be the true enemy, but I was told that he was just a geezer so I got rid of him.”

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:20 am

Ooh! I remember reading this, or part of it, somewhere.

Vegeta dies first, of high blood-pressure-related issues. I forgot about that...

caejones · Post by **caejones** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:36 am

オメデットゴザイマス！ <-- has no idea if that turned out right

Toriyama's answers never cease to be worth reading.

. *considers rewatching the Gotenks Vs Buu fight now*

Kanzenshuu

Happy Birthday Mr. Toriyama!!

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