Japanese manga artist Toriyama Akira — creator of "Dragon Ball" and ... When news broke of 68-year-old Toriyama's death, many renowned artists in the industry mourned his passing.

One of them was their disappointment regarding how the publishing house, Shueisha, treated author Akira Toriyama after his ... Kondo requesting that Piccolo's death in the Saiyan saga had him ...

The editors, despite knowing Toriyama for years, weren’t given the news of his death nearly early enough ... and design production studio created by Akira Toriyama in 1983.