Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Passed Away

may he rest in piece

RIP. OG Dragon Ball was pure joy during my childhood. How happy this anime made me despite my family drama! It was so funny and truly epic re DBZ too.

Rest in peace - Toriyama-san.

RIP Toriyama-sensei!!!

I am so unbelievably sad and disheartened. DBZ has been so instrumental in making me as big of an anime fan as I am now. It is literally my childhood, and Toriyama-sensei was a genius and one of the major driving forces as to why anime/manga has become so beloved world wide. He has inspired this new generation of shounen writers, rightfully.

We were blessed to have him while he was here, and life feels a little less magical now with him gone. I hope he's resting well. His legacy will live on.

RIP

rest in peace

Toriyama was a real legend, sometimes people doesn't realize the huge impact he had on the industry it was Dragon Ball that spearheaded the breakthrough of Japanese manga / anime into the rest of the world and even if people hasn't watch or read the series the fact that it inspired so many other works like ONE PIECE or Naruto means that one way or another they felt his influence

and let's not forget all the work he did as illustrator, things like Dragon Quest or Chrono Trigger wouldnt be nearly as successful or beloved if it weren't for Toriyama designing their worlds and characters

really sad specially since it was so sudden seems it was an accident, dunno what is going to happen with Dragon Ball in the long term for now Toriyama was deep in the production of Dragon Ball Daima so hopefully people that were complaining that it looked "too childish" stay quiet and appreciate his final work also Toyotaro is working on a new arc of the manga based on the scripts written by Toriyama so at least we can enjoy another arc written by him

This is hurts like I lost my second dad. 😭 I first saw an episode of the Original Dragon Ball anime back when I was 5 years old. That was 32 years ago, since then I bought every DB merch or asked my mother to buy it. 😅

I don't know how many times I drew Goku and the others, he's the reason I became an artist too.

Many people said, Dragon Ball has no story, it's just about some guys fighting with each other. Sure, that was the surface, but when I grew up and understand the meaning behind it, it affected my life in a different way.

Rest in Peace, Sensei!

This picture is made by Oda Eiichiro (creator of the One Piece Manga) and Kishimoto Masashi (creator of the Naruto Manga) both of them, and Nozawa Masako (voice of Goku) released a statement too, you can read it down below.

dang rip

i like drawing dbz characters back then!

will watch some episodes maybe finally see latest saga super or world tournament im behind

my brother told me about this earlier, we used to watch dragon ball together as kids, it was the first anime i ever watched