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In loving memory of Akira Toriyama. Without your humor, your action, and your messages of self-improvement and persevering against impossible odds, we wouldn't have gotten one of the greatest warriors in the universe. Rest in peace.
Hey, have you heard? Akira Toriyama passed away. I know you're not fond of shonen yourself, but I assume that Dragonball and etcetera have been major influences on your life. I remember you talking about it at one point once.
As a latin american, totally. DragonBall is like a sacred religion 'round these parts!
I used to watch the anime with my dad when I was a wee little bab. I'd be mesmerized at the fights and transformations, laugh my butt off at the humorous bits, be deathly afraid of the villains (specially Cell), and to cherish the moments of peace and calm with family and friends.
My Twitter feed is clogged with condolences and tributes for him. That's just how powerful and influential he was as an artist. I swear, if it weren't for him, Sonic the Hedgehog would've never been born.
And as much as I hate to admit it, we wouldn't have had Steven Universe, either.
Not to mention the fact that Sun Wukong shares the same VA with Son Goku in LEGO Monkie Kid, too. They understood the assignment.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg here. There's still a whole lot more.
Besides DragonBall, my favorite Tori's misc. works are Dr. Slump (the wacky and cartoony adventures of an android girl and her kooky scientist "father"), Go! Go! Ackman (a demon assassin who awakens from his deep slumber to collect human souls), and Apple Pop (an adorable puppet show about a family of wolves).
But I guess that's how things are. As much as we want to, we can't live forever. Toriyama is in a much better place now, and the best we can do is to cherish his artistic legacy, now more than ever before. It's what he would've wanted, after all. To tackle life with the same energy as Goku. And I'll try to do the same.
So there’s this old show (1967) called “Goku’s Big Adventures.” Directed by Gisaburo Sugii; it was a more wacky & cartoony adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s manga “My Son Goku”, which was Tezuka’s own take on the famous Chinese story “Journey to the West”.
Akira Toriyama was 12 years old when this show aired, and most people agree that he drew a lot of inspiration from it whenever he went on to make Dragon Ball.
Tezuka’s cute aesthetics were a huge influence on anime & manga in general, but I think the token girl (Tatsuko) in “Goku’s Big Adventures” is like..! The common Ancestor of Bulma, Arale, and Toriyama’s female characters in general.
I could totally see her in Toriyama’s art style! I wonder if he low key had a crush on her when he was a child 🤭😆
Crossposting from elsewhere just to show I’m still alive! I just forget about this blog sometimes since it’s on a separate account all together.
I remember watching the show. I watched it for her. Can’t remember her name though.
