Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. The original manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha. Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with elements
"Dragon Ball grew to have more and more muscular characters. I actually regret not having studied muscle models back then, but I still havent gotten around to it... I thought too much about how the muscles looked [stylistically], so if you look at them as real muscles, it isnt accurate."
"Chi has been used in China since ancient times, but its supposed to be formless and invisible. However, in manga, in order to make it easier for any reader to grasp, it was necessary to give it a shape. For the kamehameha, I myself did a lot of the different poses and chose the one that I thought would work the best."
"...an action-packed tale told with rare humor and something even rarer—a genuine sense of adventure."
"Those two things were what shocked me the most in Dragon Ball... armpits and hands."
