Akira Toriyama, one of Japan’s leading ... Bird Studio/SHUEISHA, via Associated Press “Dragon Ball,” follows a young boy named Son Goku who embarks on a journey to collect the seven magical ...

Akira Toriyama, who was 68, was best known for Dragon Ball, the hit manga that spawned ... or Transformers or ThunderCats," he says. "For a boy, a teenage boy that would have spoken to me on ...

Toriyama Akira was interviewed by NHK in 1982. And that's exactly what he did. Toriyama launched "Dragon Ball" in 1984. It depicts the adventures of Son Goku, a boy with superhuman strength ...

Dragon Ball is widely and rightly considered a classic anime and manga franchise. Akira Toriyama's tale has delighted ... a young peculiar boy with a tail who embarks on a quest to become stronger ...