An artist with a protracted historical past with dragons goes method too quickly.
Considered one of Japan’s most distinguished artists in each the manga and gaming realms has died.
The official social media for the Dragon Ball franchise confirmed tonight that Akira Toriyama, the unique artist behind the sequence, handed away on March 1, a bit of greater than a month earlier than his 69th birthday. The reason for dying was an acute subdural hematoma (blood on the mind).
Toriyama gained prominence in Japan within the late Nineteen Seventies together with his work on the Dr. Droop manga, earlier than creating Dragon Ball – his most well-known work internationally – in 1984. Within the online game realm, Toriyama was the primary character designer for the Dragon Quest franchise, which dovetailed into additionally doing character design for the seminal 1995 RPG Chrono Set off and later the Blue Dragon video games.
