Akira Toriyama's Journey: How Dragon Ball Was Born
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Join us on an epic journey as we explore the incredible story behind the creation of one of the most beloved anime series of all time: Dragon Ball. Discover the fascinating history of Akira Toriyama's career, from his early struggles to his breakthrough success with Dragon Ball. We'll take you behind the scenes to reveal the inspiration behind Toriyama's iconic characters, from Goku and Vegeta to Piccolo and Frieza. And we'll explore the creative process that brought Dragon Ball to life, from the earliest concept art to the final animation. Don't miss this chance to discover the incredible story of Akira Toriyama's journey and the birth of Dragon Ball.
Information and Interview quote courtesy of Kanzenshuu.
Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama. Thank you for everything.
Yes he may rest in peace 😢
RIP Good luck in heaven
I came here to see the story of Akira toriyama because I'm a fan of his work
Who else here after hearing the news?
Rest in piece akira
Me 😢
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RIP Akira Toriyama he made such a groundbreaking show that changed the world 😭
His work made up the majority of my childhood. R.I.P Akira Toriyama 🙏
He created something that wasn’t just your average series. He created a legend that will live forever.
For Akira Toriyama.
Same 4 Digimon.
@@victorsamsung2921 this is about Akira Toriyama, not the creators of Digimon pal.
@@SomeUA-camr1993 I know. I was just crediting Mangaka artists in general for their work and contribution to animation and tv. Same with Toriyama and the creator of Digimon.
My childhood wouldn’t be complete without the joy of watching dragon balls after school
Thanks you Toriyama Akira hope you rest well up there
RIP. He’ll be missed and the impact his work had on so many people won’t be forgotten.
Akira Toriyama wanted to create Dragon Ball to entertain all of us fans around the world he is JUST A GOAT!!!!!!!!!
Facts
Faxx
Many mangaka aspire to be like him, myself included.
but he’s a human... unless he is a goat 🐐... which would be weird...
@@display_yalpisd9337 what I meant by a GOAT I meant that he's pretty AWESOME!!!
I watched Dragon Ball Z before I even knew what anime was. RIP.
Same for me and Pokemon too
I'm here after waking up and finding out the sad news.😢😢
At least brother Akira toriyama is resting in peace in a much better place. Rip AKIRA TORIYAMA
Same. RIP the legend
Never knew Dragon Ball went through so many rough drafts before it was originally released.
Very informative video Smug, well done 😎👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed bro
Thank you for making our childhood, awesome! ❤️
RIP LEGEND 😭
I’ve always wanted to see the history of creating dragonball!
Great video :)
Thanks for watching man. Be sure to leave a like and share!
Yeah
This hits too hard with the GOAT of Mangas passing away, rest in peace Akira Toriyama and may he find solace, him nor his works will ever be forgotten.
This was just A BANGER. Keep up the good work Smug.
Thanks a lot man
@@SmugStick np. Just keep up the good work!
Dragonball Z got me into Anime , then I started to read the Manga. After that I went to straight into OG Dragonball 😊
The creator of Dragon Ball passed away Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama ( GOAT ) 😢🕊
This is such a great info video, keep up the good effort!
Of course. Thanks for watching, be sure to share
Thank you Akira Toriyama Rest in Peace
Can’t believe it, it just felt too sudden. Rest in Peace🥺
Rest in peace akira toriyama❤🙏🙌
Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama, thank you for this amazing masterpiece that impacted the world 🕊️
Rest In Peace Akira Toriyama🙏
My childhood died today and I'm so grateful for this time still. RIP (crying my eyes out)
Any reason I’m glad he did make Dragon Ball
I'm 36 and I have to say that DBZ changed my life. I honestly don't know what kind of a childhood I would of had without it, And I know the rest of you feel the same. I hope this show will never die and will continue to teach kids righteousness among other core values that are in the anime! = )
Man he was a legendary person and the best Mangaka artist may he rest in peace🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
This hits a whole lot harder knowing he’s gone. Rest in peace, Mr. Toriyama ❤️💐
o7 The GOAT
He will be missed, his works, influential in inspiring a generation of kids and teens.
RIP
Torishima: no one could relate a monkey
People nowadays with king kong: haha monke brrrrr
LMAO
It’s also funny because Goku still has a tail and later (spoiler alert) can blow up planets
We have soooooo much in common with him 🤣🤣
Rest In Peace Akira Toriyama🕊️🐐
May God Rest Your Soul♥️😢
Fly High Legend You Will Be Remembered From The Bottom Of Our Hearts, You were the greatest Mangaka ever😭
"Though Toriyama may not be drawing Dragon Ball anymore..."...that hit's all sorts of different now...
Long live Akira Toriyama 4:12 💙💯
A true legend .
His work / art / imagination/ story telling is God tier
In thank you for this video!
His passing brought me here
I got introduced to dragon ball super by the cartoon network when my small brother was watching tv and this new show begun few months back....!!!!
Soon after that i become a fan for that cartoon.....but after the Black goku series i was thrilled and begun to see it as best cartoon ever.... actually from that series i born as a dragon ball fan...!!!
But when i begun to search for that in UA-cam and all....il
I begin to know that that's and anime actually....!!! And when i begun to see next part of tournament of power.....i cannot control myself and finished all the episodes with days....!!! And i become a big big big fan for dragon ball super....!!
I was astonished that someone had created this stuff...!!! The plot of whole story was crazy to be tought....!!! And the animation was too amazing to be made the visual and sound effects, emotions and all....it was like a God saviour of my life.....!!! It became such and inspiration for me....!!! And now i know sir akira toriyama is the legend of anime...!!! And i am glad he had recieved many awards for the best manga creator....!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Toriyama Made A Cinematic Universal Masterpiece for Anime And Manga!
Love to Akira toriyama ❤ and the whole team of the series.
Dragon Ball is my favorite Manga/Anime series!!
Devastating. R.I.P. Akira Toriyama
Thank you, Toriyama-sensei. You really bring the best childhood experience on anime industry
DB anime was first aired in my country in 1996, every Saturday at 6PM and then moved to Sunday morning. By the time I finished the manga, the show was still airing and not even reached Frieza arc yet. DB, Kenshin, and Doraemon are the only manga that sticks to me. RIP Akira Toriyama.
This is such a great video! Keep up the good work!
bruh you didnt watch it it came one minute ago
RIP Akira Toriyama. Thanks for making my childhood.
He sought greatness so he created greatness and then showed it to us, bye.
Smugstick you remember when dr.slump and dragon ball super have that crossover
Now that you mentioned it In Fact Yes they Did.
Oh yeah I remember that amazing episode
Yes I kinda want another crossover
Yeah that was a great episode
I also believe the original Dragon Ball also has a crossover. General Blue had to fight a gag character way before Vegeta even knew about Neko Majin or Arale.
This is making my eye tear up I'm so glad i grew up with dragon ball it made my childhood complete!!
it all started with him, thank you for the memories fly high from 2025
Sure was one a hell of a childhood tho.
Rip, what an incredible person, thank you for everything 🙏🏾
thank you for this overview of akira toriyama.
akia is a genius no doubt about that
Great video. Exactly what i wanted.
I hoping one day we can get a what if where goku or gohan got credit for the defeat of cell and buu and become earths actual champions 😭
Its been so long since I've heard this voice
What do you mean?
@@SmugStick well, Ive been here almost a year ago, and I completely threw over the Dragon ball community, now Im back, feels good to be back
RIP. I’m a 32 year old long time fan of DBZ I own the complete series I love it
R.I.P. Akira Toriyama-sensei! THE G.O.A.T.!
Rest in peace, your work will forever be remembered
Greetings from Finland!
This video need more views because of him RIP
Torishima feels under-credited for his role in creating Dragon Ball. I have never heard of him until now.
that tldr really caught me off guard lmao
LMFAOOOO I’m glad people liked that
Rest In Peace, Akira Toriyama🕊
Rip akira toriyama
This man akira is a Legend hall of fame DBZ one of the best anime history....
This comment was made a week before he died
1:07 New What if Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were In Dragon Ball Series Coming!!
Bruce Lee is in dragon ball lol
Master Roshi dressed up as Jackie "Chun" in the first tournament. After the first tournament, Goku defeated a Bruce Lee lookalike to earn money to pay for the taxi ride to Bulma's house. So both were in the manga in a way.
Thank you for this video
Thanks for watching bud. Be sure to share.
@@SmugStick I will
unless you count something like Pokémon and other cartoons from Cartoon Network "Anime" than Dragon Ball - Super is the only anime I've watched so far... I finally got the whole collection on dvd, I wish I could afford blu ray lol, and I watched everything in English Dub with the voice actors I grew up with but also had the original Japanese subs in English on from the very start of Dragon Ball, through DBZ, Super, and also tried my best to place all the movies/specials in chronological order! It was cool thinking of the English Dub actors saying the original lines/script! Made it even better! Everything was just that much more intense, emotional, and hilarious!!! I don't know if I'll ever read all those subtitles again in my life lol but it was definitely worth it!!! Can't wait for more seasons of Super!!! The Moro arc looks pretty awesome! anyway hope everybody is doin well! cheers
Also, do not forget that Dragonball was made iin a era where there were no handheld computers for the game. I bet Pokemon wouldn't be that succesfull without the games to play.
RIP Akira Toriyama
Rest in peace 👑
if torishima never have thought of giving him that idea of kung fu we would be in diffrent world ,,Rip toriyama sensei.
😔 Dragon Ball was the first anime I watched & have seen every show
RIP THE LEGEND
Legend. Rest in peace
Rip toryama the top G❤❤🙏🕊️
What if you used this story "Blood is thicker than Water" By: ShotgunRedneck as inspiration for a What if theory? What if Minato is/was born a Super Saiyan Grade 1 or Grade 4? King Vegata decides to exile Baby Saiyan Minato to another planet and you can decide to send Baby Minato to the Shinobi Planet or a tear to another Universe opens up and baby minato's Saiyan pod goes through that tear to the Earth from the Naruto Universe? Baby Minato is found by a Shinobi from the Leaf village and adopts minato into the Namikaze Clan, and the rest of the series goes as normal, but Naruto is born with blonde hair with red highlights or Red hair?
And thank you for the show known an dragon ball Mr. Akira Toriyama
THANK YOU 😢
Nice vid smug!
you didnt watch ir it came 2 minutes ago
i have seen the anime i mean the whole dragon ball franchise except for the dragon ball z kai but after seeing this vid i wanna read dragon ball and dragon boy manga lol nice vid plus this is also cause i have always been a fan of dragon ball and akira toriyama since i was 5 or 6
Dragon Ball is amazin, one of the best Manga and anime in the world, even people who don't watch anime still know of it....
it is very disorganized tho, canon and non canon and plot holes and retcons and past events and statements that contradict the retcons etc.....
I think we need a remake of the manga, deleting ome of the stuff that all fans hated, adding in movie plots that were popular (Turles - Cooler 1 & 2 - Broly 1 & 2 and the Super version - Tapion etc...) Dragon Ball Multiverse did that in a way that removes contradiction by changing the plots of movies and manga a little, so it can be done.
finally, to keep interest in the manga, the Anie could be a true adaptation, while the manga has the official power levels in each chapter, good for marketing this way.
The manga is the best way to experience the series. Thanks for watching, be sure to share.
@@SmugStick
Dragon Ball Super's manga too?
also, you seem to like GT.....
that's why I suggest a full remake, maybe after Super is finished tho.
5:43 "and made sexier to comply with the editor demands" lmao
Rest in peace Akira 😢
Rip😢
Fly high king 🫡 🕊️
R.I.P o7
Died too young
Rest in Pace legend🕊️
Amount of KG of muscle Dragon Ball has built is crazy
The real question is, WHY NOT!!
RIP THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME
Rest in piece legend
DBZ is the first anime I've ever watched and totally fallen in love with! My generation watched One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Naruto... long before anime like Attack on Titan or Demonslayer came out! But if you ask me which one is the GREATEST anime of all, I'd say right off the bat, it's of course Dragon Ball Z!
Rest in peace Akira Toriyama 🕊️
I feel like I have lost a long time friend! 😫
A healthy Japanese man (a legend), from a country of high life expectancy and healthy lifestyle,
dies, due to blood clot in the brain... 😖
I'm so sad about this, devastated, and also I'm so angry at those tyrannical people in power who forced the ☠️💀💉!
Every Japanese citizen was required to have it!
What are the odds that a legend like Akira Toriyama dies from a blood clot when he's from a country where most people die from old age?!
I'm just so angry rn! He could have lived longer! And spent more time with his family, wife and children, and the admiration of the fans of his great work, if not for the 💉💀☠️!
Budokai tenkaichi was my childhood RIP
R.I.P Akira Toriyama
RIP
AKIRA TORIYAMA
My God how close we were to never receiving the dragon ball series is crazy.
Akira the goat
Dragon boy would've been a dope manga on its own.
I wonder if Akira Toriyama actually put some effort in his storytelling, without the Goku fans telling what he should do and shouldn't do.
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What if only future Goku gained the transformation to Super Saiyan 4 while he is on planet Yardrat? When a heavily injured Future Goku crash-lands on planet Yardrat, he is found by the Yardratians and nurse Future Goku back to good health and gets his Saiyan tail back. So when Future Goku awakens on the planet and finds out that his tail is back, he thanks the Yardratians and he learns from them...meaning Future Goku learns the Instant Transmission. So while Future Goku is both learning the Instant Transmission and mastering his Super Saiyan transformation, while Future Goku is in Super Saiyan Grade 1 he looks at the planet Yardrat moon(s) and begans to become a Golden Great Ape.
So Future Goku is on a rampage in his Golden Great Ape form and the Yardratians sense this and some run away while others try to help Future Goku to regain himself, and they even use their Spirit Control to get Future Goku to wake up in his Golden Great Ape form. It works and Golden Great Ape Future Goku apologizes and thanks the Yardratians, that is when Golden Great Ape Future Goku starts to shrink and becomes Super Saiyan 4.
So Future Goku starts to learn more about this new form and trys to master it by becoming a Golden Great Ape again with the Yardratians help him if he loses control again. So the full year comes and Future Goku goes back to earth and he fights Future King Cold and Future Mecha Frieza, so a few years and Future Goku shows his family his Super Saiyan 4 form and he starts to get in heat and makes love to his wife Future Chi-Chi while Future Goku is in his Super Full Power Saiyan 4 form.
A couple of weeks or months later Future Goku catches his Heart Virus and dies, never knowing that Future Chi-Chi is pregnant with twins. Future Chi-Chi later gives birth to a Boy(Goten) and a girl(you can base her appearance off of Imoya, with the girl getting her father's eyes from his Super Saiyan 4 form) and you decide her name. Also Future Vegata gets with Future Bulma and they too have twin children...Future Trunks and Future Bra/bulla. The Future Android arc still happens and Z Fighters are still killed, except for Future Gohan and years later he is training his younger siblings and the twin children of Future Vegata.
Like your videos dude
Thanks bro, I’d appreciate a share!
@@SmugStick your welcome
Why there is only few old pictures of him?
Please make Part 2 of What if Goku was Raised by Jaco to be a Galactic Patrolman?