Replying to @Brian Koch #CapCut Akira Toriyama born on April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024 was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work. Toriyama is regarded as one of the authors who changed the history of manga. 🈵Toriyama drew pictures from a young age, mainly of the animals and vehicles that he was fond of. He related being blown away after seeing One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), and said he was drawn deeper into the world of illustration by hoping to draw pictures that good. 🈶Needing money after quitting his job at the age of 23, Toriyama entered the manga industry by submitting a work to an amateur contest in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, which he had randomly picked up in a coffee shop. Weekly Shōnen Jump, accepted submissions for their Newcomer Award every month. 🈶Wonder Island, became Toriyama's first published work when it was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1978. It finished last place in the readers survey. Torishima told him to draw a female lead character, Toriyama hesitantly created 1979's Tomato the Cutesy Gumshoe, which had some success. Feeling encouraged, he decided to draw another female lead and created Dr. Slump. It was serialized from 1980 to 1984, was a huge success. 🈹Torishima suggested that, as Toriyama enjoyed kung fu films, he should create a kung fu shōnen manga. This led to the two-part Dragon Boy, published in the August and October 1983. 💘Toriyama married Yoshimi Katō on May 2, 1982. She is a former manga artist from Nagoya under the pen name "Nachi Mikami". They had two children: a son named Sasuke born on March 23, 1987, and a daughter named Kikka born in October 1990. 🥀On March 1, 2024, Toriyama died from an acute subdural hematoma, at the age of 68. Toriyama, he had planned to undergo surgery for a brain tumor in February 2024. #akiratoriyama #famousdeaths🥀 #dragonball #goku #dragonballz #cartoonist #japanese - @gianasasha29