(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

Chōzenshu 4 reveals how much of the Dragon Ball series Akira Toriyama had planned, and the answer may surprise you.

In a new Afterword in Dragon Ball Super Volume 24, Toyotaro states, “The Saiyamen X origin story that I was able to include at the end of this volume is a manga adaptation with additional details, ...

Dragon Ball franchise creator Akira Toriyama passed away last year, and it turns out that the artist behind Dragon Ball Super paid tribute to the late creator by adapting one of the final stories he ...

But it's not the manga I particularly wanted to make. Now, I want to draw something different, and I don't want to be judged by just one series." Toriyama Akira was interviewed by NHK in 1982.

Acclaimed manga artist Akira Toriyama, creator of the global hits ... Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1955, Toriyama made his debut in 1978 with "Wonder Island" published in Weekly Shonen Jump.