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Hundreds of individuals have worked on the series since Dragon Ball's serialization began in November 1984, both through the manga and its various animation adaptations. Listed below are the main individuals involved in the franchise's development and production.

Manga Staff

While the Dragon Ball manga was created by Akira Toriyama, it wasn't just his hand that shaped one of the foremost Shōnen manga series of all time. His editors would on occasion steer the story in a direction of their liking and harass him to get his chapter manuscripts submitted on time. In return, Toriyama would often incorporate his editors into Dragon Ball as villains^[1] — Torishima was the basis for Demon King Piccolo, while Kondō was the basis for Freeza, and Takeda the basis for Majin Boo.

Akira Toriyama (Series Author & Creator; Bird Studio)
- Takashi Matsuyama (Assistant; Bird Studio)
Kazuhiko Torishima (1st Series Editor; Shueisha)
Yū Kondō (2nd Series Editor; Shueisha)
Fuyuto Takeda (3rd Series Editor; Shueisha)
Kōhei Ōnishi (Jaco the Galactic Patrolman Editor; Shueisha)

Spin-off, Promotional, and Continuation Authors

Since Dragon Ball's revival in the early 2000s, the series has had multiple spin-offs. Some of these series and one-shots have been supervised by Akira Toriyama himself, although he did note^[2] that Naho Ooishi in particular knows a thousand times more about Dragon Ball than him by this point. Ooishi has contributed several adaptations of Dragon Ball, with all of them being published in either V-Jump or Saikyō Jump (or related event publications). In 2012, V-Jump began running a promotional manga drawn by "Toyotarō" for the card-based arcade game Dragon Ball Heroes. Each chapter works in a focus on the then-current or upcoming additions (new cards, abilities, characters, etc.) in the arcade game. Toyotarō would go on to pen an introductory manga for the 2015 theatrical film before moving on to the Dragon Ball Super "comicalization" later that same year. Various other authors and illustrators have penned series promoting specific games or products, which tend to run in V-Jump and/or Saikyō Jump.

Naho Ooishi (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Toyotarō (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Yoshitaka Nagayama (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Hiroshi Otogi (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Yūji Kasai (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Katsuki Hirose (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)
Dragon Garow Lee (Spin-off Author & Manga Artist; Shueisha)

Main Animation Staff

Planning & Pre-production

Keizō Shichijō (Series Planner & Producer; Toei Animation)
Kōzō Morishita (Series Planner & Producer; Toei Animation)
Takao Koyama (Series Organizer & Scenario Writer; Brother Noppo)
Aya Matsui (Series Organizer & Scenario Writer; Brother Noppo)
Tokizō Tsuchiya (Producer; Fuji TV)
Kenji Shimizu (Producer; Fuji TV)

Directors

Minoru Okazaki (Series Director; Toei Animation)
Daisuke Nishio (Series Director; Toei Animation)
Osamu Kasai (Series Director; Toei Animation)

Animation Development

Minoru Maeda (Chief Animator & Character Designer; Studio Junio)
Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Character Designer; Shindō Production)
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (Character Designer; Toei Animation)
Tomekichi Takeuchi (Animation Supervisor; Seigasha)

Artistic Design

Tadanao Tsuji (Chief Art Designer; Toei Animation)
Yūji Ikeda (Chief Art Designer; Toei Animation)
Tokushige Ken (Chief Art Designer; Toei Animation)
Ryūji Yoshi'ike (Chief Art Designer; Toei Animation)

Musical Composition

Shunsuke Kikuchi (Musical Composer)
Akihito Tokunaga (Musical Composer)
Kenji Yamamoto (Musical Composer)
Norihito Sumitomo (Musical Composer)

Post Production

Hidenori Arai (Sound Effects Designer; Fizz Sound Creation)
Shin'ichi Fukumitsu (Film Editor; Toei Animation)

References

↑ "Shenlong Times - 2nd Issue". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide. Japan: Shueisha, 04 August 1995. ISBN 4-08-782752-6. (Insert Pamphlet)
↑ "Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!! – First Part". V-Jump. Japan: Shueisha, 21 March 2009. (Insert Booklet)

[1] "Shenlong Times - 2nd Issue". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide. Japan: Shueisha, 04 August 1995. ISBN 4-08-782752-6. (Insert Pamphlet)

[2] "Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!! – First Part". V-Jump. Japan: Shueisha, 21 March 2009. (Insert Booklet)

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 ==Manga Staff==
-While the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' manga was created by Akira Toriyama, it wasn't just his hand that shaped one of the foremost ''Shōnen'' manga series of all time. His editors would on occasion steer the story in a direction of their liking and horas him to get his chapter manuscripts submitted on time. In return, Toriyama would often incorporated his editors into ''Dragon Ball'' as villains<ref>{{Cite guidebook|Title="Shenlong Times - 2nd Issue"|Book=6|Page=Insert Pamphlet}}</ref> — Torishima was the basis for [[Demon King Piccolo]], while Kondō was the basis for [[Freeza]], and Takeda the basis for [[Majin Boo]].
+While the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' manga was created by Akira Toriyama, it wasn't just his hand that shaped one of the foremost ''Shōnen'' manga series of all time. His editors would on occasion steer the story in a direction of their liking and harass him to get his chapter manuscripts submitted on time. In return, Toriyama would often incorporate his editors into ''Dragon Ball'' as villains<ref>{{Cite guidebook|Title="Shenlong Times - 2nd Issue"|Book=6|Page=Insert Pamphlet}}</ref> — Torishima was the basis for [[Demon King Piccolo]], while Kondō was the basis for [[Freeza]], and Takeda the basis for [[Majin Boo]].
 [[File:toriyama_working.png|thumb|300px|Toriyama and Matsuyama working on ''Dragon Ball'' at [[Bird Studio]] in 1988. (Toriyama Interview, ''Dragon Ball: Daimaō Fukkatsu'', p. 85)]]