{"id":16664,"date":"2024-03-08T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/japanese-creator-behind-wildly-popular-dragon-ball-series-has-died-aged-68\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:55:35","slug":"japanese-creator-behind-wildly-popular-dragon-ball-series-has-died-aged-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/japanese-creator-behind-wildly-popular-dragon-ball-series-has-died-aged-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese creator behind wildly popular Dragon Ball series has died aged 68"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created\u00a0the enormously popular and influential Dragon Ball series, died of a brain condition last week at the age of 68,\u00a0his production studio said Friday. <\/p>\n

Toriyama was the mind behind the fantasy martial arts franchise featuring Son Goku, a boy from outer space with superhuman strength and a monkey tail\u00a0who embarks on a\u00a0quest for the seven dragon balls. <\/p>\n

The Dragon Ball universe remains one of Japan\u2019s most successful\u00a0global hits, captivating the hearts of many manga-loving teens and adults from around the world since its debut in the 1980s. <\/p>\n

Toriyama\u2019s\u00a0death was announced on Friday by\u00a0Dragon Ball\u2019s official\u00a0website in\u00a0a\u00a0shared\u00a0statement from Bird Studio and Capsule Corporation Tokyo. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our deep regret that he still had several works in the middle of creation with great enthusiasm,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe would have many more things to achieve. However, he has left many manga titles and works of art to this world,\u201d it added, thanking fans for their support on Toriyama\u2019s behalf. <\/p>\n

The artist died of acute subdural hematoma, a form of brain bleeding, the statement said. <\/p>\n

Born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu City, Aichi prefecture, Toriyama began drawing manga at the age of 23. <\/p>\n

He made his debut as a cartoonist in 1978 by submitting\u00a0a short story to manga fans\u2019 magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. <\/p>\n

His \u201cDragon Ball\u201d series went on to be featured in the same magazine in 1984 and was front and center of a creative career that spanned more than four decades. <\/p>\n

The franchise is based on classic Chinese novel Journey to the West and has since been adapted into into anime and the 2009 Hollywood action movie \u201cDragon Ball Evolution.\u201d <\/p>\n

As Son Goku sets off for his quest in search of the seven dragon balls,\u00a0he fights off villains along the way and protects the Earth.\u00a0As he ages, the storyline shifts to his descendants and friends. <\/p>\n

The dragon balls, when collected, can summon Shen Long, a divine dragon that can grant any wish. Son Goku often ended up spending the wishes on his friends or restoring a heavily destructed Earth in the series centered on courage, friendship and kinship. <\/p>\n

Prominent Japanese author and game designer Yuji Horii, a longtime friend of Toriyama, said they worked on the popular game Dragon Quest together. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe he\u2019s gone,\u201d he wrote on social media platform X. <\/p>\n

Eiichiro Oda, creator of manga series \u201cOne Piece,\u201d said the thought of never seeing his friend Toriyama again \u201cfills me with sadness.\u201d <\/p>\n

Toriyama \u201ctook the baton from the era when reading manga would make you stupid, and\u00a0created an era where both adults and children read and enjoy manga. He showed us the dream that\u00a0manga can do things like this\u00a0and that we can go to the world,\u201d Oda said on the Shonen Jump website. <\/p>\n

Many fans also paid tribute to the manga heavyweight online. <\/p>\n

\u201cDragon Ball was my textbook for life. It taught me that I could overcome any hardship if I worked on it cheerfully and with enjoyment,\u201d one fan wrote on X. <\/p>\n\n

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Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created\u00a0the enormously popular and influential Dragon Ball series, died of a brain condition last week at the age of 68,\u00a0his production studio said Friday. Toriyama was the mind behind the fantasy martial arts franchise featuring Son Goku, a boy from outer space with superhuman strength and a monkey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}