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What was it about your wife that made you marry her? (his wife is the manga artist Nachi Mikami-san)
I admired her for her adult personality and her attention to other people’s needs.
I had no idea that Toriyama's wife was a manga artist! Does anyone have any more information on Nachi Mikami? I'm mostly curious about which manga she worked on, which magazines she was published in, how long her career (has) lasted, whether she writes as well as illustrates, and really anything about her professional or artistic life. Though other kinds of info would also be appreciated.
All I could really find in a brief google search (might dig deeper later) was a blog review of an artbook she appeared in, rock n roll themed collection of illustrations by shojo artists.
Next is Nachi Mikami. I was unfamiliar with her until I looked her up just now. She is married to Akira Toriyama, something that I was not expecting. Her comics seem to have faded away, but apparently she was famous for including rock musicians in her work. She also spells her name professionally in hiragana, which is a little unusual.
Her other song choices were Imagine by John Lennon and Dream On by Aerosmith. I wanted to scan Dream On so badly, since it is one of my favorite songs ever and was an illustration of Steven Tyler, but I had to limit myself to two per artist, and I can’t tell you how relieved I was to see the Live at Budokan album represented in this book. I would have been very disappointed otherwise. And that Jeff Beck illustration was far too pretty to leave off. It’s the only illustration without an essay.
Seems like an appropriate place to throw in a couple of answers from this interview that I found, well....interesting, I guess is one word for it.
Would you like to cheat on her? I’m not that brave. But if I knew I wouldn’t be found out, I’d like to try it just a little bit.
Is it normal for them to ask stuff like that?
What kind of old-timer do you want to become? I’d like to be the sort of geezer who pretends to be senile so they can peep on their daughter in the bath.
What kind of old-timer do you want to become? I’d like to be the sort of geezer who pretends to be senile so they can peep on their daughter in the bath.
DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:Seems like an appropriate place to throw in a couple of answers from this interview that I found, well....interesting, I guess is one word for it.
Would you like to cheat on her? I’m not that brave. But if I knew I wouldn’t be found out, I’d like to try it just a little bit.
Is it normal for them to ask stuff like that?
What kind of old-timer do you want to become? I’d like to be the sort of geezer who pretends to be senile so they can peep on their daughter in the bath.
Classic Toriyama.
Seriously...is that real? If so...eww. There's a fine line between endearing old pervert and creepy ass bastard, and that second one falls in the later (and the first one is just of poor taste...especially since his wife could find it, lol).
You learn something you never wanted to every day, I suppose...
What kind of old-timer do you want to become? I’d like to be the sort of geezer who pretends to be senile so they can peep on their daughter in the bath.
*cue title card* "That's our Toriyama!"
Guess he is like Muten Roshi.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Mewzard wrote:You learn something you never wanted to every day, I suppose...
Agreed. I really, REALLY hope that they were either kidding, or that this doesn't reflect on Japan's attitude about sex as a whole.
Kataphrut wrote:It's a bit of a Boy Who Cried Wolf situation to me...Basically, the boy shouldn't have cried wolf when the wolves just wanted to Go See Yamcha. If not, they might have gotten some help when the wolves came back to Make the Donuts.
Chuquita wrote:I liken Gokû Black to "guy can't stand his job, so instead of quitting and finding a job he likes, he instead sets fire not only to his workplace so he doesn't have to work there, but tries setting fire to every store in the franchise of that company".
Mewzard wrote:Seriously...is that real? If so...eww. There's a fine line between endearing old pervert and creepy ass bastard, and that second one falls in the later (and the first one is just of poor taste...especially since his wife could find it, lol).
You learn something you never wanted to every day, I suppose...
To be fair, the whole article is kind of tongue-in-cheek, and the daughter comment predates his actual daughter's birth by several years. But Toriyama has never shied away from calling himself a pervert.
Insertclevername wrote:Is this what she looks like?
That's her. (The one on the left, that is, not Jackie Chan.)
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最近、あんまし投稿してないねんけど、見てんで。いっつも見てる。
Insertclevername wrote:Is this what she looks like?
Jackie Chan and Toriyama took a picture together... HOLY SHIT THATS AWSOME!!! Two of my main idols who Id never thought knew each other, end up in a photo together.
It's not too late. One day, it will be.
Peace And Power MF DOOM!
Peace and Power Kevin Samuels
Can anyone tell what that photo is for, by the words on the cover?
I might be wrong, but I think the caption on Donz picture says "A happy gift from Jackie the Jump Fan."
Rocketman(In response to a post about Pandora's Box) wrote:
I sat here for ten damn minutes wondering what the hell God of War had to do with any of this.
Insertclevername wrote:I plan to lose my virginity to Dragon Box 2.
I never knew Toriyama's wife was a former manga author, but for some reason it doesn't surprise me...it actually fits pretty well. I totally couldn't see him going out and trying to pick up women, based on what we know of him, so him meeting someone else in the same field as him and being able to get closer to her from that, makes more sense to me.
I've always wondered if the Goku/Chi Chi relationship might be a flanderdized parallel of his own relationship with his wife too...
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