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Concept Artist Who's Who

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese concept artist born in 1955 known for creating popular manga and anime franchises like Dragon Ball. He started his career in 1978 with the manga "Wonder Island" and is best known for creating the Dragon Ball manga and characters in 1984. Toriyama also designed characters for video games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. His unique art style featuring expressive characters with spiky hair and facial features helped define his successful works like Dragon Ball Z and Blue Dragon over his 37 year career.

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Concept Artist Who's Who

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese concept artist born in 1955 known for creating popular manga and anime franchises like Dragon Ball. He started his career in 1978 with the manga "Wonder Island" and is best known for creating the Dragon Ball manga and characters in 1984. Toriyama also designed characters for video games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. His unique art style featuring expressive characters with spiky hair and facial features helped define his successful works like Dragon Ball Z and Blue Dragon over his 37 year career.

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CONCEPT ARTIST

WHOS WHO?
Akira Toriyama

Whos Akira Toriyama?

Akira Toriyama (Toriyama Akira) is a


Japanese concept artist who was born on
April 5th 1955 in Nagoya, Aichi.
Started of as a Japanese manga artist
then became a game artist, writer,
character designer and art designer.
His debut work Wonder Island was
released late in 1978 which was
published in Weekly Shonen Jump
The creator of the well known
manga/anime series; Dragon ball
(including Dragon Ball Z) which started
in 1984 as a manga then anime in 1986.
The character designer of the video
game Dragon Quest
Artist of Chrono Trigger & Blue
Dragon.

Produced Concept Artwork

Here are several concept character designs


produced by Akira Toriyama which have
been in feature manga (Japanese comics),
animes and video games.

I really admire these


thumbnails of The
character, Son Goku
which were produced by
Toriyama for his series
Dragon Ball. His style
of art is very creative just
by looking the style of hair,
eyes and eyebrows which
looks interesting. In
addition his art style is very
unique compared to many
other artist around the
world even till this
generation.

Dragon Ball Z is the successor of Dragon Ball.


For me this is Akira Toriyamas best project that he
has ever made. From its processor His art work
Akira has gradually developed on his style just by
looking at how much detail he has put onto his
work.

This is the cover art


created by Akira Toriyama
for a video game, Chromo
Trigger. In addition the
game was also produced
by Akira.

Blue Dragon is also another project which


artwork and the game is both produced
by Akira. Blue Dragon also has an anime
series which is based on the video
games.

Re-mastered & Remakes

The image of two screenshots is from a Dragon Ball Z film (Dragon


Ball Z: The Plan Eradicate The Saiyans) which the story and art
work was created by Akira. The top image is the original movie
which only was released in Japan on August 6rh 1993 and which
leaves the bottom image as the remake which was released as a
bonus feature of a video game (Dragonball; Raging Blast 2) in
Japan, North America and Europe in 2010. Also the Dragon Ball Z
anime series was re-mastered and then a remake was made which
was called Dragon Ball Kai which was released in 2009.

Modern Projects

Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of


Gods (Film; 2012)

Dragon Ball Super (Anime


series; 2015)

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F


(Film; 2015)

These are Akiras most recent work including screenshots


below each cover.

Why I venerate his work?

The most critical reason why I venerate the work of


Akira Toriyama is because of his style of art. Akiras
style is self made which makes him unique and stand
out more to others artists in the industry. From looking
at his work he has a very creative mind in a way he
makes the impossible possible. His style gains
recognition which then inspired other artists to produce
work similar to Akiras especially his character designs.
Akiras career started in 1978 which is 37 years and
people still acknowledge his work. His art work has
also been developed and used on feature manga
series, anime series and video games.

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