Happy Birthday Mr. Toriyama!!

Toranks · Post by **Toranks** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:42 am

Happy birthday!!!

fps_anth · Post by **fps_anth** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:00 pm

Hoppy Birthday Toriyama-sama!

Post by **Herms** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:52 pm

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

It'd be オメデトウゴザイマス in katakana, but you generally write it in hiragana or kanji: おめでとうございます.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:14 pm

Nice to see Toriyama-sama liked the Daimao/Goku fight as much as I did.

Son Wukong · Post by **Son Wukong** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:12 pm

Wow, that ''Akira Toriyama's Best'' is interesting.

......

Oh ya, Congrats Toriyama-sama !

kenisu3000 · Post by **kenisu3000** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:45 pm

Happy birthday, Toriyama-sensei!!

...Hopefully one year older does indeed mean one year wiser. Poor guy is never gonna live that "who's Tao Pai Pai?" line down.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:50 pm

^ I thought he couldn't remember who Karin was... whatever, the old man deserves a break.
Happy birthday, good sir! I think I'm late, but at least I got to say it.

caejones · Post by **caejones** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:51 pm

Herms wrote:
caejones wrote:オメデットゴザイマス！ <-- has no idea if that turned out right
It'd be オメデトウゴザイマス in katakana, but you generally write it in hiragana or kanji: おめでとうございます.

Yeah... mainly the reason I can't tell is because I have no way of reading Japanese characters...

Meep... did Toriyama really forget his characters, or like, their names? (Especially since they're mostly puns)

kenisu3000 · Post by **kenisu3000** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:00 pm

caejones wrote:Meep... did Toriyama really forget his characters, or like, their names? (Especially since they're mostly puns)

Probably just their names. Toriyama had had an interview with the creator of One Piece, Oda, who mentions that he loved how Toriyama drew Tao Pai Pai's hands, to which Toriyama replies: "Who's Tao Pai Pai?" And then Oda gets all "Are you serious?"

But I'm sure it was just the names he forgot, not the actual characters. I can't imagine him getting so senile that he'd actually forget about a whole handful of characters that he put so much detail and effort into for so long, no matter how detached he tried to keep himself from the story.

Post by **Herms** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:06 pm

caejones wrote:Meep... did Toriyama really forget his characters, or like, their names? (Especially since they're mostly puns)

In Forever's name pun guide, he does say that he can't remember what pun, if any, are behind certain names (like Lunch). In some cases he says that he can't even remember the character, though just with pretty minor people like Pan-poot.

He did forget who Tao Pai Pai was in an interview he had with Ei'ichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, and in several other interviews he's shown that there are a good number of things he doesn't remember, though most are fairly minor things (even Tao Pai Pai isn't really all that important in the grand scheme of the story). So while he can be forgetful, his reputation among fans as practically being an Alzheimer’s patient is just an extreme exaggeration. Which is mostly done tongue in cheek of course, but I still think people don't give him enough credit (not that I haven't made "Toriyama can't remember his own name"-type jokes myself).

Arcwave · Post by **Arcwave** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:39 pm

誕生日おめでとう!!!

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:04 am