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Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist.
He debuted in 1978 with the Wonder Island story published in Weekly
Shonen Jump, and gained fame for Dr. Slump, serialized weekly in Shonen Jump
from 1980 to 1984.
He is probably best known for the Dragon Ball series. This series was one
of the linchpins for what is known as the Golden Age of Jump. Its success
"forced" Toriyama to work on Dragon Ball from 1984 to 1995. During that
eleven-year period, he produced 42 volumes. Each volume has an average of
200 pages, so Dragon Ball extends for almost 10,000 pages! Moreover, the
success of Dragon Ball led to an animated television series, feature-length
animated movies, video games, and mega-merchandising.
His clean line and design sense led to jobs designing characters for the
phenomenally popular Dragon Quest series of video games (called Dragon
Warrior in the United States). He has also served as the character designer
for the Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger and the popular Tobal No. 1
PlayStation fighting game, and continues to produce the occasional manga
story. His works after Dragon Ball are short (100-200 pages) stories,
including Cowa, Kajika and Sand Land.
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