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What's your favorite Toriyama drawing? My own would have to be the one that's in this picture:
I which I could find the source picture, because it's so awesome. I love the poses, the color style, and yes, I loved the art style during the Buu Saga. I also like it whenever mangakas draw a picture based on a saga (Eichiro Oda of One Piece does this a lot).
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Don't have a favorite one, but this catches my attention because it is the only image of the character outside the original manga Toriyama drew of him, when he still had his amazing skills, of course.
Wow, I had no idea Toriyama drew that. That image was also used in the original Funimation cover of History of Trunks:
Spoiler:
Does anyone know the story behind how that cover was created?
EDIT: And the Funimation cover also seems to include a portion of the image not in the original (if you look carefully between Trunks's head and Gohan, you can see what appears to be a part of the background that isn't present in the original image). Is there a version of that drawing available without Trunks standing there? Or did Funimation draw that part in themselves? Or am I just seeing things?
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These are my two favorites. I especially love the second one because it feels so timeless to me. It encapsulates the very essence of Dragon Ball: Goku and his family, good overpowering evil, changing from evil to good, saving the world, and making friends along the way and being surrounded by all of them. The first image just shows how far Goku has progressed since he was born/the beginning of the series. He came to Earth in a Saiyan space pod by himself. He had no one until he met Bulma. Then at the end of the series he's surrounded by so many of his friends and family. It's timeless and amazing and it's why I love the series so much. Thus these are my two favorite pictures.
StrawHatPatriot wrote:I which I could find the source picture, because it's so awesome.
That image was originally used as the fold-out front cover of Weekly Jump No. 7 in 1995 to commemorate Dragon Ball's 500th chapter. I'm not sure where all it is available, but it is contained in Daizenshuu 1 (which is where I found the above information).
And you didn't ask, but since I have the Daizenshuu out already, I figured I might as well. Your Freeza image is a fold-out poster from, coincidentally enough, Weekly Jump No. 7 in 1991.
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thaman91 wrote:EDIT: And the Funimation cover also seems to include a portion of the image not in the original (if you look carefully between Trunks's head and Gohan, you can see what appears to be a part of the background that isn't present in the original image). Is there a version of that drawing available without Trunks standing there? Or did Funimation draw that part in themselves? Or am I just seeing things?
It looks like they either drew in small portions themselves or copy/pasted/blended from other areas (or a combination fo both). Look at the area near Trunks' right (from our view) shoulder in the FUNimatin cover. You can see a small tower and gray area present in the original, but here where the gray area ended in the original (because it went behind Trunks), it transitions rather abruptly back to green. Though since some of the lines match up, there was likely a bit of touch-up drawing as well.
Oh yeah, I had tried a thread like this long ago.
My answer hasn't changed: it's the picture of Goku and Freezer you posted.
Such artworks should definately be used as manga covers for high quality editions (I was rather disappointed by the Full Color covers, with their weird green and the fact that they don't even pick the most impressive title pages or promo artworks)!
