«Dragon Ball» creator Akira Toriyama passes away at 68-year-old
According to a statement released by his production business Bird Studio on Friday, the Japanese novelist passed away on March 1 from a blood clot in his brain.
Akira Toriyama, a highly important and internationally successful manga author, passed away on Friday, according to a statement from his studio.
According to a statement released by his production business Bird Studio on Friday, Toriyama passed away on March 1 from a blood clot in his brain. It stated that just his family and a few other relatives had attended the funeral service.
The most well-known contribution of the Japanese writer is the widely read Dragon Ball manga series, which has a global readership and inspired several anime series, computer games, and motion pictures.
The manga series, which premiered in 1984, tells the tale of a young boy named Son Goku who sets out on a mission to gather mystical dragon balls in order to defend Earth against extraterrestrial humanoids known as Saiyans.
It was turned into an anime in 1989, and it quickly rose to prominence as one of the most well-known works of Japanese culture worldwide. According to his studio, 260 million copies have been sold overall.
Even after 45 years of labor, Toriyama’s work remained incomplete at the time of his passing.
On Weibo, a popular networking platform in neighboring China, tributes to Toriyama’s passing have garnered 40 million views and hundreds of conversations about it. «Journey to the West,» a popular work of Chinese literature, served as the inspiration for his Dragon Ball.
