Although Akira Toriyama is lazy, who can say that Akira Toriyama did not seriously paint "Dragon Ball"? To say this is disrespectful to manga artists, and if Akira Toriyama had casually drawn Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama would not have done it. How can the works that are painted casually be so successful, and how can they become the benchmark works of the bloody manga, and the three major manga of the Later Fire Death Sea are more or less affected by "Dragon Ball".
The original story of Dragon Ball was set in reference to Journey to the West, but Akira Toriyama did not want to make a journey to the West fan comic, adding some martial arts elements, some modern high-tech elements. Adventure is also completely original, with the search for dragon balls that can fulfill any wish as the starting point, and the triennial World First Budokai as a stage to witness strength, triggering a variety of interesting or dragon-fighting plots.
Akira Toriyama's plot preparation method is known as the blood king Road manga, the main feature is the protagonist decent, adventure to meet partners to defeat the evil, the story compact one ring triggers another link, that is, verified by generations of manga artists, the most attractive reader like the various routines are mixed together, "Dragon Ball" is the best done in that era, so success is inevitable, can it be said that Toriyama Akira did not work hard? Latecomers can't learn it if they want to.
Akira Toriyama's combat storyboard is particularly well handled, the fight looks very coherent, there is a refreshing feeling of one-off, even if there is no text description, just look at the picture, you can watch the enjoyment, should refer to a lot of Hong Kong martial arts films, Akira Toriyama very much like martial arts superstar Jackie Chan, I guess it is after referring to a lot of martial arts films to like Jackie Chan, the two took a group photo. In "Dragon Ball", the turtle immortal in the ring is pseudonym Jackie Chan, and also used the signature drunken fist, which is a tribute.
As for Akira Toriyama's claim that Akira Toriyama himself once said that he did not like to work in a nine-to-five manner, that was not free, so he chose to be a manga artist. When he painted "Alare", he was a little famous, and when he painted "Dragon Ball", his reputation was very popular, and it was not his will that wanted to end.
Akira Toriyama finished the first part of the painting and wanted to finish, Toei did not do it, Jump will not agree, the work fire means to make a lot of money, and then there is a universe chapter, Akira Toriyama wants to finish, forced out the artificial man chapter, the artificial man chapter also wants to finish, and then forced out of the magic man Buou chapter, this time it is over, Goku's eldest son has a girlfriend.
But is it really over? Jump is precisely because of the loss of the pillar of "Dragon Ball", he had to compromise with Fu Jian Yoshihiro, making him so willful to update. Jump and even Toei miss Toriyama Akira incomparably, to this today Toriyama Akira is old, you can't draw well, authorized to Toyotaro, continue to draw, "Dragon Ball" This IP is too hot, continuous update can be overheated. It is not so much that Toriyama is lazy, but rather that the financial benefits make Toei and Jump specially fast and contrast.
Text: Dragon Knight Sharu