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Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Nazi Cola » Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:46 pm

I was wondering how much involvement Toriyama had with the making of the daizenshuu. I've heard he supervised them, and I've heard he merely approved them. So can someone give me the low-down, please?

Actually, should go in the General section, shouldn't it?
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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Vice » Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:00 am

Bird Studio Executive: "Mr. Toriyama, we're going to go ahead and commission a few guidebooks for your manga. Are you ok with that?"

Toriyama: "Do I get paid?"

Bird Studio Executive: "Yes sir."

Toriyama: "Alrighty. Have at it."

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Post by Nazi Cola » Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:20 am

Vice wrote:Bird Studio Executive: "Mr. Toriyama, we're going to go ahead and commission a few guidebooks for your manga. Are you ok with that?"

Toriyama: "Do I get paid?"

Bird Studio Executive: "Yes sir."

Toriyama: "Alrighty. Have at it."
Nice answer, but I'd like something a little more "official", if you don't mind.
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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Fox666 » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:38 am

Toriyama has provided tons of information outside of the manga. That is, special issues, memos for the anime staff, interviews, etc. Mostly of the information avaliable on the new information available in the Daizenshuu are taken from there. In fact, I would even say that the Daizenshuu staff took care of not including information not provided by Toriyama, the manga or that should be obvious.

Besides I believe people underestimate Toriyama's involvement with this kind of derivated work outside of the manga.

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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Gaffer Tape » Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:57 am

Vice wrote:Bird Studio Executive: "Mr. Toriyama, we're going to go ahead and commission a few guidebooks for your manga. Are you ok with that?"

Toriyama: "Do I get paid?"

Bird Studio Executive: "Yes sir."

Toriyama: "Alrighty. Have at it."
Funny, but considering that "Bird Studio" is just a fancy way of saying "Toriyama and his assistant," you basically just described a conversation between Toriyama and himself.
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Post by kaialone » Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:28 pm

Gaffer Tape wrote:
Vice wrote:Bird Studio Executive: "Mr. Toriyama, we're going to go ahead and commission a few guidebooks for your manga. Are you ok with that?"

Toriyama: "Do I get paid?"

Bird Studio Executive: "Yes sir."

Toriyama: "Alrighty. Have at it."
Funny, but considering that "Bird Studio" is just a fancy way of saying "Toriyama and his assistant," you basically just described a conversation between Toriyama and himself.
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About Toriyama, I remember that in the 4th Daizenshuu, (wich is the World Guide) he wrote that he worked together with the dev team, but he himself wasnt much of help since he pretty much made up most of the story as he went, and thus it was hard to make all the information from the manga fit into a plot-holess whole.
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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by p123 » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:16 pm

That's one of the things I always found interesting. He went with his story as he wrote it, I mean he's not going to sit there and think of everything from all angles , you know? He's trying to get a point across and that's it. Manga interpretation almost takes on a life of it's own. You don't really here about other stories with this kind of scenario. I wonder why?

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Post by RLZIII » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:49 pm

p123 wrote:That's one of the things I always found interesting. He went with his story as he wrote it, I mean he's not going to sit there and think of everything from all angles , you know? He's trying to get a point across and that's it. Manga interpretation almost takes on a life of it's own. You don't really here about other stories with this kind of scenario. I wonder why?
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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Herms » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:57 pm

I should probably give a more detailed, point-by-point answer, but I'm on vacation right now. Basically, some things in the daizenshuu were supplied directly by Toriyama: interviews, the "What I'm Up To Nowadays" comics, extra character info, comments on vehicles, the DB cosmos map, the covers and other bits of artwork, etc. Some things are said to have been "supervised" by him, whatever that means, such as the DB Earth map. Finally, the entire book series were approved by him: they're official products, have his name on the cover, his introductions to the different volumes praise the staff's work and say he wished he had the books around when creating the series, etc.

There's an old, crappy translation of Toriyama's Shenlong Times #7 interview that has Toriyama say his work on the daizenshuu consisted of only a "paragraph" so he's not busy. What he actually says is that his work on the daizenshuu has finished up, so he's not busy anymore. See, danraku=paragraph, but ichi-danraku means, not "one paragraph", as you might expect, but rather reaching a moment of pause or wrapping thing up. Now, all else aside Toriyama clearly drew the covers for the daizenshuu, and elsewhere in Shenlong Times #7 he complains about how much of a nuisance Daizenshuu 7's cover was (despite it just being a recoloring of the last page of the series), so obviously there's something wrong with him saying he's only writing paragraphs for the books. But don't take my word for it, here's TripleRach's translation.
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Re: Toriyama and the guidebooks

Post by Adamant » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:44 am

Herms wrote: Some things are said to have been "supervised" by him, whatever that means, such as the DB Earth map.
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