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Timo
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by Timo » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:41 pm
In the News of '
Wikipedia.org'.
"1955 - Akira Toriyama, a successful Mangaka (Dragonball), is born."
Is it true? oO
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Super Sonic
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by Super Sonic » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:30 pm
Yes, today is his birthday. He's fifty years old as of today.
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SonGokuGT
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by SonGokuGT » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:59 pm
Wow! Toriyama-san is 50 today, awesome! *marks calendar*
Woah! He's got the same birthday as my goddaughter! Sweetness!
It's also kinda cool to note that DBZ movie 11 is released in the US today as well.
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Timo
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by Timo » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:05 pm
And it's NOT in the news on the page?

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by SonGokuGT » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:08 pm
Timo wrote:And it's NOT in the news on the page?

Give it time... I bet it
will be.
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by SpaceKappa » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:21 pm
Tanjyoobi Omedetoo, Toriyama-sensei!
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by Jerseymilk » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:21 pm
Lets have a party!!!
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Mattias
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by Mattias » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:27 pm
50 down, 50 to go. He's halfway there.
A party, eh? I'll bring the nachos.
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by tealsmith » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:07 pm
Let's hope he has a better memory when it comes to his personal life then when it comes to his manga creations
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by Chuquita » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:47 pm
Happy Birthday Toriyama-san!

Hope you have a good one!
On hiatus.
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by dim_sum_boy » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:16 pm
SonGokuGT wrote:
It's also kinda cool to note that DBZ movie 11 is released in the US today as well.
Don't you mean dbz movie 10.
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by Gamingdevil » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:19 pm
Happy birthday, and many years.
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by Sebastian (SB) » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:02 pm
Congratulations, keep up the good work.
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by Wahwahwah » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:22 pm
Wow, he's actually younger than my mom! (By about 4 years)
Heck, I'm impressed he's able to remember ANYTHING after how they worked him during the course of Dragon Ball!!!
Akira Toriyama: You say this Son Goku thing was MY idea!?!
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by The S » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:59 pm
Yeah, that's right, 1955... same year my mother was born. I remember...
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by *PINHEAD* » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:19 pm
Joyeux anniversaire M. Akira Toriyama! See, I can show off my foreign language skills too.
I didn't realize he was already fifty. That seems so...old. But when I think about it, he must be 50 since DB was 20 years ago (I still live in the mind set of the nineties, so the eighties doesn't seem as long ago as it really is).
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by Super Sonic » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:27 am
*PINHEAD* wrote:Joyeux anniversaire M. Akira Toriyama! See, I can show off my foreign language skills too.
I didn't realize he was already fifty. That seems so...old. But when I think about it, he must be 50 since DB was 20 years ago (I still live in the mind set of the nineties, so the eighties doesn't seem as long ago as it really is).
Better than me my friend. I'm 22, yet when I think of some pop culture things that happened 8 or more years ago, I feel old. Back on topic, Happy Birthday Mr. Toriyama.
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by Dragonboy » Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:34 am
Happy bday Toriyama sensei!!!
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by SonGokuGT » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:19 pm
dim_sum_boy wrote:SonGokuGT wrote:
It's also kinda cool to note that DBZ movie 11 is released in the US today as well.
Don't you mean dbz movie 10.
Whoops! ^_^;; Thanks! Releasing movie 11 on his birthday would be an insult...
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by Wahwahwah » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:31 pm
AAAHHHS!!! Dragonboy, WHERE did you get that Avatar!?! I MUST HAVE IT, I MUST!!!
MY PRECIOUS!!!...