The recent death of Akira Toriyama, the famous creator of manga such as ‘Dragon Ball ... So much so, that the first drawing of Goku, made by its author before his presentation to the whole ...

Akira Toriyama is one of the most influential ... Toriyama candidly admits that he did not want to draw manga, but clearly, fate had something else in store. His first breakout series was Dr ...

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.

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The interesting part about this new anime adaptation of Akira is that it will try and cover the whole story from the original manga.