Drawing has always been a part of Akira Toriyama's life. Thanks to La Carica dei 101, he begins his adventure in this graphic world and also receives some local prizes thanks to the Disney cartoon. Then he started to become an industrial designer and at that point nobody expected him anymore the author of a hit like Dragon Ball.
From birth to the latest works, we see the most important moments in the career of the creator of Dragon Ball.
Akira Toriyama was born in Nagoya on April 5, 1955 and as mentioned earlier, he is soon approaching the world of drawing thanks to Disney. So he goes to graphic arts college but gives up a great job in Nagoya to start on Weekly Shonen Jump. It's 1978 when he released Wonder Island, or when he was 23 years old. In 1980, at the age of 25, he published his great success, Dr. Slump. The comic manga will be a mainstay of the magazine for the next 4 years.
But if the writer and editors thought they had made the most of Toriyama commercially, they were wrong. In 1984 Akira Toriyama returned to Weekly Shonen Jump at age 29 with the first chapter of Dragon Ball. He continued the successful manga until 1995 and ended the story after 40 years.
Over time, Akira Toriyama was no longer engaged in long series and only published mini-series. But take part in the Creation of Dragon Ball Super in 2015However, since he was unable to draw due to his age, he limited himself to controlling Toyotaro's work and providing ideas. today Akira Toriyama is 65 years old But his career in this world has not stopped yet as he is one of the fundamental elements of the trio that Dragon Ball Super carries on.
