Akira Toriyama This name, I believe that friends who like Japanese anime will not be unfamiliar, "Alare" and "Dragon Ball" these two works can be said to be many people's childhood memories. Akira Toriyama himself is a manga genius, and both his imaginative brain holes and artistic skills represent the highest level of Japanese manga.
Akira Toriyama himself is quite versatile, and it's hard to imagine that an author of a light-hearted and funny light comedy like "Alare" could draw such an epic duel fighting comic as "Dragon Ball". We have recalled Akira Toriyama's classic mechanical vehicles, character costumes, and scene architecture. Today I will recall what I personally think is Akira Toriyama's most classic battle duel!
Akira Toriyama's previous comics had almost no fights, and before Dragon Ball reached its climax, Akira Toriyama had been creating short light comedies, and even the early days of Dragon Ball were still this light-hearted tone, with the appearance of MomoBaibai, a hired killer of the evil forces black silk army (Red Ribbon Army), Dragon Ball began to gradually become a fighting comic.
Although the early Dragon Ball also had a martial arts duel represented by the world's first budokai, both the overall atmosphere and Akira Toriyama's painting style in this time period belonged to a relaxed state. For example, exaggerated expressions such as eye bursting and tongue spitting out appear frequently in battle, although there are battles, but compared to the subsequent battles, it can be said that there are two styles.
Beginning with the Saiyan chapter, Dragon Ball truly transformed from the adventures of Goku in childhood to the bloody battles of young Goku, and Dragon Ball officially opened the most peak fighting chapter in Japan.
The plot of this period is more tense and exciting, and the enemy is incredibly powerful compared to the previous Black Silk Army Peach White Piccolo Demon King level. Compared with the previous style, the painting style is also more rigid, the lines are no longer rounded, the muscles are more rough, and even the expression of each character has become more resolute.
Taking Leping as an example, whether it is body muscles or facial expressions, it is completely like a changed person. Early shots of exaggerated eye-popping mouths are also nearly extinct. Dragon Ball battles in this period are no longer humorous and funny, but fist-to-flesh sourness.
Dragon Ball is probably the most typical fighting manga in Japanese manga, paying attention to single-handedness, fast and coherent camera switching, and the display of various action tricks. This battle between Vegeta and Goku can definitely be regarded as a classic battle in the entire Dragon Ball chapter, and the two of you can only be addicted to watching it!
Close-up-long-range-close-up, three opposing shots not only hint at the warring sides, but also create an atmosphere of slaughter.
In just a split second, Vegeta and Goku had been fighting each other for several rounds. Due to the setting of flight, the old bird is even more unscrupulous to switch scenes, one second is still on the ground, the next second has leapt into mid-air. One second it was still a hundred meters away, and the next second it was a heavy punch. It seems that if you are not careful, you will miss the most wonderful fights.
In the battle, the old bird uses a lot of lines and leaves a blank background to highlight the speed and character mentality, Vegeta's instantaneous charge and Goku's shocked expression to match the next Goku is beaten, there is a return to the battlefield with a background, it looks like a movie.
It hurts to watch
As mentioned before, Akira Toriyama's battles during this period are not exaggerated emojis, but the sourness of fists to flesh, and the painful expressions of the characters make people feel pain when they see it!
Although many people say that Dragon Ball is still a good early adventure, there is nothing to watch in the later stages except endless fights. But I don't think Dragon Ball is the duel fight that is wonderful? There are too many easy and adventurous Japanese comics, Dragon Ball can only be regarded as good in the early days, and as far as fighting comics are concerned, Dragon Ball is still the ceiling of Japanese comics.
Even the American comics of the 90s have changed the fighting style under the influence of Akira Toriyama, whose film-level storyboarding has influenced countless masters, and the battle storyboard in dc's movie "Superman's Steel Body" a few years ago is a reference to the battle of Dragon Ball.
It is precisely because of such a wonderful battle storyboard that "Dragon Ball" has truly become a unique comic that resounds around the world!
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