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re: Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragonball, passed away.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 10:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 3/7/24 at 10:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
He couldn't have been that old, right? I'm guessing mid 60s, maybe?
OG DB premiered in 1986.
Dude almost single handidly opened Japansese animation to the masses in the west, which is a multi-billion $$ business now. Absolute Mt Rushmore type of figure for animation.
I know he had pulled back from the creative side a lot of the DB-verse, but he was still kind of the guiding light for the show/anime.
Gigantic loss in so many ways.
OG DB premiered in 1986.
Dude almost single handidly opened Japansese animation to the masses in the west, which is a multi-billion $$ business now. Absolute Mt Rushmore type of figure for animation.
I know he had pulled back from the creative side a lot of the DB-verse, but he was still kind of the guiding light for the show/anime.
Gigantic loss in so many ways.
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Posted on 3/7/24 at 10:18 pm to Jack Ruby
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Absolute Mt Rushmore type of figure for animation
100% up there with Miyazaki simply for the impact he had
Posted on 3/7/24 at 11:06 pm to Jack Ruby
In Japan, he is also associated with the artwork for Dragon Quest games and a lot of the related media. He might be more well known for DQ than DB over here based on what I'm hearing from the teachers in my office today.
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