DRAGON's FOREST: All pics copyrighted by © Akira TORIYAMA

All these pics come from the Manga : Slump & Dragonball.

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Smoking Dragon

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Toriyama & Arale

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Dragon & Bird

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Shenron & Goku

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Akira TORIYAMA

In the year of 1984, a man by the name of Akira Toriyama started a new project. This gentleman had already been sucessful with his previous project, Dr. Slump, which started out as a manga in the weekly Shonen Jump, but soon became an anime on TV. Toriyama knew he could succeed with his new project if he did things right, and pleased the masses with his fantastic wit and humor, expressed through the manga. What started out as a successful manga, grew into a world-wide phenomenon and is now the most popular Japanese series, world-wide. The project that Mr. Toriyama started, was of course, the tale of a little boy, that grew into a powerful man. It is, the story of Son Goku, known as DragonBall.

DragonBall later grew into DragonBall Z. DragonBall Z focussed more on fighting, but had an incredible plot to go along with it. Unlike other anime like Sailor Moon where the plot progresses slowly but surely through a long series of episodes, a la Power Rangers, DragonBall and DragonBall Z moved at a fast pace with each new episode picking up where the last one left off. And the manga boasted a total of 519 issues, which were later condensed into 42 volumes which are still being published to this day.

DragonBall's final spawn was DragonBall GT. It was taken on by a studio that had nothing to do with Akira Toriyama, and was drawn by a completely different set of artists. This immediatley turned people off to the series. But people hated the plot even more. It was a return to DragonBall's genre with Goku and his comrades seeking the DragonBalls, but with a slightly different twist. Later the series changed tracks and went back to the fighting genre of DragonBall Z. This picked up a greater audience, but the show was still doomed from the start. The entire DragonBall series had 508 episodes.

 

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