There is debate over whether Akira Toriyama originated the now famous chibi style. So where did "chibi" get its start?

The last Dragon Ball movie before Akira Toriyama's passing had one mission ... a pretty good movie that featured a new art style and put Piccolo and Gohan (aka, his son) in the forefront.

Toriyama brought a new style of manga to the magazine that targeted male readers when he began serializing “Dr. Slump” in 1980. At first, Toriyama made Senbei Norimaki, the inventor of the ...

Akira Toriyama’s legacy can be felt far beyond ... are there exact parameters that define an art style as “chibi”? Well, the term itself simply refers to the small or short stature of ...