Akira Toriyama Modern Art Review (Part 1) 

>says gohan >writes goten >is gotenks

this was a super interesting look back over the artwork! Thanks :)

Akira Toriyama is about the classic. He really gave life to his drawing. I am not much a fans of his modern art, but i like the sandland touch

I will definitely watch a 40 minute video about dragon ball

RIP Akira Toriyama 😢

40 mins of content from the GOAT himself? Count me in.

If you made an hour long vid about toryamas modern art I'd watch

I just got this book from my birthday called “Dragon Ball A Visual History” and it’s just nothing but showing Toriyama’s art for the series. I’m honestly a big fan of his work. I even own the manga and even Jaco the Galactic Patrolman

I’ve always liked his work on sand land quite a bit. Of course db is a classic but sand land was quite good visually imo.

It still blows my mind sometimes the fact that a gag/comedy manga writer ended up creating one of the most iconic and influential action shonen series of all time.

I love his comment on the tank. Any artist knows at any level they may want to include something for their story and try something out and then realize it's either WAY too difficult and you give up, or you painstakingly finish. It's cool to see Toriyama is no different. It's cool to see what he pumped out on a deadline, but the tank and that huge monster that he made WITHOUT the deadline were pretty great.

Toriyama’s art from the 80’s is my personal favorite era of his as the evolution is interesting to see, and I think it’s the most fun to look back at. I also consider most of what he produced in the 80’s to be among his best work. His 90’s style is probably the most popular, because that’s the DBZ era, but I personally think that the Z style specifically has its sweet spot from 1990 to about 1993. Although I will say the Chrono Trigger art he did in ‘95 was absolutely incredible. His Dragon Quest work from that time frame is also very solid. I’ve never really been a fan of Toriyama’s art from the 2000’s onward. I’m not a fan of his Digital Shading especially in the early 2000’s because his digital line work often felt like it clashed with the style of shading. His traditional art was the high point of this era imo and his work on Sandland is the last of what I consider his truly greatest work. Although I still admire his more traditional work and his sense of character design. Kintoki had a mix of very flat and dynamic panels, while I enjoyed character designs from Dragon Quest XIII, X, Swords, and a few other miscellaneous projects. While Toriyama isn’t producing as much art as he was in the past, he doesn’t really need to as he’s more than proved himself as an artist. Some of his more recent work that stands out are a character design he did for the Weekly Shonen Jump app, and the promo art he did for Dragon Quest X: 5000. As a big fan I will continue to look back at and enjoy his work and keep my eyes open for what he does next.

I'm overall not the biggest fan of Toriyama's modern style compared to the "old" style he developed particulary during the Saiyan- and Freeza-Saga. I appreciate his quite nice approach to anatomy, but sometimes it just looks way to "Action figure"-esque. Not to say that a lot of the classic characters look really out of place with the modern "skinny, yet ripped"-approach, especially Vegeta. It looks really good on Freeza though.

It's great seeing Toriyama's modern work get some attention.

Whoo! So excited for part 3. I love Dragon Quest!

Awesome analysis. Can’t wait for part 2!

Good video. Definitely want a part 2.

Rest in Peace Toriyama-sensei 🙏🙏🥹😣

Ngl, I don't like his new style at all. I have a book on his art throughout the years and the later years I don't like it. But some you showed here look really nice

This is now one of my favorite RU-vid channels.

Another great vid m8 ♥️

To me, Toriyama is the Charles Schultz of Japan: He has a great artstyle that's timeless, appealing and improved over time. I do prefer his work around the Majin Buu era/ Chrono Trigger era- as I feel he accomplished great work in limited time. Also, Im one of those few people who'd love to see a 40 minute video! LOL! Great Job as I'm sure this wasn't easy! Also have u considered doing a video on Oh! Great?

dude, I always thought these was drawn by somebody else... Damn his artwork changed alot.

I love the way he said that gotenks was gohan and tried to correct it but corrected it as goten

Very detailed take on his works, thanks!

The evolution of Toriyama's art is so weird! Why draw the characters more shorter? Why draw the body/head ratio more chibi? Why draw Gohan such as slender?! It's makes no sense at all! Thanks for the work man, I really appreciated.

A lot of these “shorter” characters are mostly stylistic decisions to fit the compositions. You can see it in the manga panels in Dragon Ball as well. It allows the drawings to be more compact.

How have I just now found this?! Love these vids 😁

Love your videos man amazing can’t wait for the next one and I love Bule dragon and Ayee I would love your three hour videos

Yo, i have been thinking about this for the past few month, and I dont find people talking about. Thank you for making a video about this, dont mind 1 hour video or part per part. I love Akira Toriyama art in general. I even love his modern art. It just feel Toriyama ish. I would love to see a dragon ball animation with his recent art.

I for one kinda like this style. It's so different brings in new looks

I love 40 minute vidoes of topics i enjoy

You deserve to be noticed mor. Your channel is great and I can’t stop watching your videos.

almost 3k in 2 weeks! you better remember me when you grow up! also nice video can’t wait for part 2!

Excellent bro

Hey Forgotten, just wanna say I've been following since your first video, wanted to say I'm happy to see you grow and enjoy your videos as always :)

i love his modern art

It always feels like his modern character art involves slouching like the characters in the kazenban covers. Not all the time but maybe that's why I'm not a fan. I feel like they're off kilter

I love his art for dragon quest and you should definitely talk about it. It’s always highly detailed from like dragon quest 7 to 10 is my favorite season of his art

i love your content i'm glad i found your channel!

I find toriyama’s modern work more refined, there’s no wasted lines. Everything is so stylish and unique. His modern style cannot be imitated.

Nice video as always 👍👍👍

what about his halo art that he made. It was in that halo cartoon episodes

I love your work!!♥️

Broo I love your videos your so underated

I think an interesting change Tori made to his art in dbz onwards was drawing characters with these really chiseled, defined, rippling muscles. Whereas in dragon ball original, they were way softer and I think closer to how real-life muscular people look. Not sure why he made the change, maybe he thought it looked cooler.

MAKE THAT 1 HOUR VIDEO I don't care for DB but I do like these art reviews. Not only would I watch a video that length, I would watch them 20 times in a week.

When ever I see that picture of golu i can only remember the time that polneraff did that same pose

Quite interesting works

Why is "Dragon Quest 7 to 12" the funniest line I've ever heard?

I hope you make "Hirohiko Araki REVIEW Best Art" Video, that would be awesome 🔥🔥🔥

7:34 amazing Toryama's new arts are so cool

Great video! Surprised you don't have more subs

No dislike, well, it's should be consider how good the content. Good job.

Woah you gained a lot of subscribers since I subbed

Keep up da good work 💯

Love Your Videos man, i hope to see more soon, also im glad i was able to find this channel of someone else besides ajay who knows what he is talking about cause seriously it gives us a different view on the show as well and adds another opinion about the character designs and why they are the way they are. Again love the videos and keep it up, also i hope to see in the future a possible yuya takahashi video if possible.

Why did i take this long to find this? Amazing video!

I loved the artwork covers of the first 17 vols of the kanzenban edition.

What about when Piccolo and Cell got humanoid number of fingers in the manga? And piccolo evolved a finger for SUPER?

I would love to see one of his old drawings of Goku colored in this realistic Kazenban style.

i actually like some of his modern work

Damn I thought this video was old so I was looking for part 2

This guy give me loooove for art ^_^

I will never understand why Toriyama decided to draw the dragonball characteres slimmer.

7:31 I think 18 shrinking is due to perspective, 16 however is significantly shorter as we have him to compare to 18, but that was done with a lot of bulky characters I've noticed

Who's your favorite villain from DB?

do you know if he used paint for the kanzanban covers?

8:16 I think thats just the POV from Gohan becauseif you can see Gohan is on a mount of rock but he also could've made Cell a little out of distance.

nice video bro

Forgotten relics: don't know why I called him Gohan Me: oh wow it's relatable

Great analysis, I remember when I first saw the Kanzenban covers, I didn't like them. But now I wish there were more of them, I can't believe I ever disliked them. By the way where did you get the images in high quality? I'd love to see them in full.

Actually about the fact that Gohan is taller in a young age than Goku is because pure sayians are kids for a longer period of time so its easy to infiltrate planets and become strong before being seen as a threat. (info from Galactic partolman manga)

"No one would enjoy a 40 min video" Excuse me. WHAT?!?!?

Something that Ive always had a bit of a problem with is the posture of some of toriyama’s characters. Sometimes they look hunched over, especially in that tenshinhan cover

I'm in for the 40 min video

also i gotta question do you know yamamuros style at the beginning of the android and cell saga like when goku and trunks met or when he powered up against the androids or just when he met perfect cell. what do you think of it?

my mans get his mind blown when he learns the word perspective

Can you please do a video on Akira toriyama vs toyotaro?😀

Nice video! Something I always think about, is the Goku and Gohan's difference height in the same age. I always considering this is because Saiyans don't aged like humans, so Goku with 14 years old looks like 10/11 maybe, however, Gohan, Goten, Trunks etc, they are all half Saiyans, so I thing they age just like humans. In Dragon Ball Super, Gohan looks older than Goku in the same age.

Toriyamas best style was during the Android/cell arc

13:02 OH NO! It's fabulous Frieza! The Emperor Of Style! Ruuun!

Don’t forget those sweet Chrono Trigger Designs

Rest in peace Akira Toriyama

The cover of volume 28 looks like he's about to blast King Kai into oblivion, like he's mugging him lmaooo

I hope the more dragon quest oriented video gets the same number of views

Why am I just now finding this channel ?

I'd watch an hour-long video about all his work tbh

He made the characters slimmer and their heads look big af compared to their bodies, unlike his old art style

Toriyama really had a thing for dragons

Great video, also am I only one who think this art style is kind of similar to dragon ball ultimate tenkaichi artstyle? By the way sorry for my bad English

I hate to say this, but his digital colouring in the Kanzenban covers was surprisingly weak and dull looking for no reason. They look as if it was his first time ever colouring anything with a computer and he couldn't quite figure out how to properly do it, what technique to use for shading and how to manage colours (most of the shades seem to just have added black). After loving his watercoloured covers and illustrations, those kanzenban covers were a major let down to me.

On frieza I feel you forget that freiza leans forward in that pose and that's why hes smaller and his head is bigger. He was adding perspective

I feel like some of your reasons can be chucked up to perspective. Like 18 is not short and 16 is further back. Meaning he is drawn smaller. Same I would argue with Gohan and Cell's picture.

I would watch a 40 minute video

I would read the manga drawn and colored that way

"I don't want this to be too long, as no one would want to watch this.... I hate making things long cause I would have to split it into two halfs.... but there will be a part two, and it won't take too long to come out"

didn't Goku explicitly tell Bulma he was 14 in the first volume? Then she freaked out and kicked him out of the bath.

13:02 what's this from?

I see why dbz kakarot cover is the db manga covers