Needing money after quitting his job at the age of 23, Toriyama entered the manga industry by submitting a work to an amateur contest in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, which he had randomly picked up in a coffee shop.
Although Toriyama said he adapted to the job quickly, he admitted that he was often late because he is not a "morning person" and often got reprimanded for dressing casually, until he got sick of the environment and quit. He worked at an advertising agency in Nagoya designing posters for three years. Despite his parents' strong opposition to it, Toriyama was confident about going into the work force upon graduation instead of continuing his education. Although he still did not read much manga, he would draw one himself every once in a while. Toriyama said it was a "no-brainer" that he would attend a high school focused on creative design, but admitted he was more interested in having fun with friends.
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When asked if he had any formative experiences with tokusatsu entertainment, Toriyama said he enjoyed the Ultraman TV show and Gamera series of kaiju films. Despite being engrossed with manga in elementary school, Toriyama said he took a break from it in middle school, probably because he became more interested in films and TV shows. He believes that he began to advance above everyone else when he started drawing pictures of his friends. Toriyama has recalled that when he was in elementary school all of his classmates drew imitating anime and manga, as a result of not having many forms of entertainment. He cited Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy (1952–1968) as the original source for his interest in manga. He was shocked again in elementary school when he saw the manga collection of a classmate's older brother, and again when he saw a television set for the first time at a neighbor's house. He related being blown away after seeing One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), and said he was drawn deeper into the world of illustration by hoping to draw pictures that good. He drew pictures from a young age, mainly of the animals and vehicles that he was also fond of. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts.Īkira Toriyama was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Overseas, Dragon Ball 's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. Having sold 300 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga with Dr. Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his best-known work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Akira Toriyama ( Japanese: 鳥山 明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, born April 5, 1955) is a Japanese manga artist and character designer.
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