Akira Toriyama Death: On March 1, Akira Toriyama, a prominent comic book writer in Japan best known for the enormously popular “Dragon Ball” manga and anime series, passed away. He was sixty-eight.
His manga and design production agency, Bird agency, as well as Capsule Corporation Tokyo, acknowledged his death on Friday. They stated in a statement that the cause of death was an acute subdural hematoma, which is a condition in which blood pools between the skull and brain.
The corpus of work by Mr. Toriyama, which also includes “Dr. Slump” and “Sand Land,” is well-known outside of Japan and has influenced other manga artists and cartoonists over the years. The studio stated that at the time of his passing, he was working on multiple projects.
In “Dragon Ball,” his most well-known creation, a young child named Son Goku sets out on a quest to gather the seven Dragon Balls, which have the power to grant wishes. Having been created in the 1980s, the series has been adapted into film, television, and video games and has sold millions of copies worldwide over the course of 42 volumes. It is now one of the most well-known manga series.
On March 1, Akira Toriyama, a prominent comic book writer in Japan best known for the enormously popular “Dragon Ball” manga and anime series, passed away. He was sixty-eight.
His manga and design production agency, Bird agency, as well as Capsule Corporation Tokyo, acknowledged his death on Friday. They stated in a statement that the cause of death was an acute subdural hematoma, which is a condition in which blood pools between the skull and brain.
The corpus of work by Mr. Toriyama, which also includes “Dr. Slump” and “Sand Land,” is well-known outside of Japan and has influenced other manga artists and cartoonists over the years. The studio stated that at the time of his passing, he was working on multiple projects.
In “Dragon Ball,” his most well-known creation, a young child named Son Goku sets out on a quest to gather the seven Dragon Balls, which have the power to grant wishes.
Having been created in the 1980s, the series has been adapted into film, television, and video games and has sold millions of copies worldwide over the course of 42 volumes. It is now one of the most well-known manga series.
