But if you draw it deformed, it’s alright for a few things to be off. At any rate, I’ll try anything that makes my work end sooner. (laughs) Well, my manga is a gag manga and the characters are all ...

Even Akira Toriyama felt the mishandling of Gohan’s character. In the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero pamphlet (translated by @Herms98), Akira Toriyama candidly addressed Gohan’s diminishing role in ...

showing his appreciation by redrawing volume 42 of Dragon Ball and expressing regret for not buying the manga while Toriyama was still alive. The world-renowned mangaka, Akira Toriyama sadly ...

Daima has largely been a celebration of Akira Toriyama's masterful contributions to manga and anime history, and the most recent episode goes a little further beyond in its callbacks. Before the ...

“I kept on buying the Dragon Ball comics ever since the first volume came out when I was in elementary school, but actually I don’t have Volume 42,” Oda’s special tribute to Akira Toriyama ...

Let’s not forget that Toriyama, being a big fan of scale models and all kinds of vehicles, worked in his studio surrounded by scale models and even several real motorcycles.

Considering the amount of influence Toriyama had on Dragon Ball Daima before he passed , it would make sense that Akira would be looking to inject some past references into the new anime.