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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.
ready to get flamed pt. 2 but with anime
( I’ll reblog with the template)
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.
Goku arrives in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2018
