Akira Toriyama's involvement in the Dragon Ball Z anime 

>Toriyama opens door to studio >states Goku MUST eat clouds >refuses to elaborate >leaves

This and MistareFusion are the best DB related RU-vid channels imo. MistareFusion for the plot analysis and ForgottenRelics for the art and production related content. Both channels are super underrated but I'm so glad they exist.

Kids coming out if the theatre whistling Gohan's song is one of the cutest tidbits I've heard.

You know I always wondered what if Toriyama himself Storyboarding or even supervised some episodes of Z

It’s cool that Akira Toriyama came up with designs of some characters for movies. Congrats on 20k!

I still love that Cooler design sheet, it's the best I've ever seen the character look.

Toriyama: "Lets do some good ol shippin with Lunch and Tien" Also Toriyama: "Who is Lunch...?"

Picking Nozawa to voice Goku in the was one of the Best Decisions Toriyama made. Her voice embodies the characters l perfectly.

one of the main criticisms of dragon ball is one that content creators like plage of grips uses "Toriyama asked them to add it because he didn't think of it" it's a surface level criticism based on surface-level interviews research, in reality, Toriyama seemed to leave some parts of dragon ball to the anime intentionally which is why I love these videos. since they correct the misinformation content like his has on people, the amount of dragon ball haters who harass fans because of content like his is an issue in the community that encourages not properly reading the story and basing criticism on interviews like "cell wasn't planned" or "this was were dragon ball was meant to end" and then these people insult Toriyama personally for "lols" despite not actually having real criticism.

The king Vegeta thing is the most hilarious thing. Just a headshot of basically regular Vegeta with a goatee.

The mere fact people hate on some of the movies, but especially GT without having seen anything but joke clips when Akira Toriyama was involved in making or at least approving character designs versus not really being that much more involved in Super is such a joke to actual fans as opposed to those who pretend to be deep in lol.

Ahh yes, quality dragon ball content

Congrats for 20k man! You deserve this and much more

This is an impressively compact yet comprehensive video on Toriyama's involvement with the anime. 10/10.

10:40 I thought Janemba was the ONE movie design that wasn't changed by Toriyama.

It makes sense that Toriyama would want to take advantage of the animated format by adding minor bits of material to flesh out characters that do not advance the story in any significant way as space (and therefore time) in a manga is at a steeper premium than it is in the run time of an anime. Readers might have been disappointed or annoyed if the only Dragonball content that they got in Shonen Jump that week involved Yamcha playing Baseball where it only took up a few minutes in the anime.

R.I.P Heromi Suru 😔

I can’t believe toriyama designed cooler. That means cooler is kinda canon

Congrats on the 20k subs! In my opinion, having both actors voice the fusions, instead of one or another or a third one, is genius!

Dam you hella underrated

Surprised to see no involvement during the Frieza and Cell saga in the anime version really. Mainly the saiyan saga had the most involvement from Akira Toriyama.

Going to miss his interviews comments and designs 😢 Rest in peace

Dude, all the jump cuts is hard to watch, fuck this shit.

I've been watching naruto recently and I have this same question about that show. Especially about shippuden. I've read the Manga and there is a lot of filler but some stuff feels as if he had some say in it.

What's up with the new editing style ? Lol Been laughing the whole way

Glad you made this video, as a powerscaler of Dragonball...I get annoyed so greatly when I use Databooks or references such as the Dragonball afterlife and how it's a seperate World/Universe that transcends human world. Daizenshuu 4 page 20 provides this info along with a 1998 western book also licensed by Shuiesha for Goku RPG databook implying the same, and Daizenshuu 7 1996 also implying this information. Then we learn that the map exist because the anime staff requested it, and Toyotaru even includes it in the Super manga. But dude sooooo many ignorant people ignore this, and I'm glad you did this video. So the public can be educated on Dragon Ball; even outside of powerscaling purposes...just for general knowledge. Good video (subbed)

Upopular opinion: I think Bardock's original proposed design looks way more original and interesting than the decision of making him just a "meaner" clone of Goku.

Toriyama also had all the filler,weather he sent designs or not,sent to him for him to approve or disapprove of and leave notes. He did this for all of ball and z and GT. No doubt he does this for super.

I really enjoy your videos lol, how much freedom do we have when asking questions? (Q&A)

All he really did was confirm art styles and made Character design but Super Animation was Denied by him but the episodes already was made so he couldn’t change them back and he was mad at the company, Even the creator felt disrespected by the Anime

Damn, 20k that's based! This is one of my favorite DB channels, good job!

6:30 those are the shamoians from the OG Broly movie

I really like how Toriyama was somewhat involved in the production of the anime and decision making. Plus I really never knew about him designing grand Kai but it was an interesting thing to learn regardless. Also congratulations on 20k subscribers 😁👍🏻

Once again an incredibly interesting video !

Subscribed just based on how thorough the research must have been.

Didn't know because toryima has social anxiety.

Tengo que decir 2 cosas: 1) felicidades por tus 20k suscriptores y 2) guau... ¡¡todos los diseños de Toriyama "de capítulos de relleno del anime y películas"!! ¿verdad?

7:06,uh...don't you mean antagonist? 10:25, Zangya...oh yeah.

0:25 “To the creation of Cricket” Gregory: Am I a joke to you?

So off topic questions.....is there anyway you could explain the art process of the dragon ball legends cards or something around the lines of that? If anything i just wanna know what and how the card arts are rendered (probably all on digital which i don't like doing) and mainly the abstract black brush strokes that are usually in all the cards and how exactly there made too. I really wanna implement it in to my art but don't really understand what it is and how to do it. Anyways great video as always and congrats on the 20k!!!!

Sometimes I wonder if or how much he was involved at all. For such an important figure in Shonen manga who has influenced so many, little is really known of him and he almost doesn't really even remember anything he's done or who half the characters he's come up with are. I feel like there was a ghost team pushing him through the majority of his work. One example is how the androids who killed future Gohan were originally Dr. Gero and android 19, but his supervisor disliked their ugly looks and had Toriyama come up with 17 and 18.

wow did not know these ones it seems like the stuff that would have been filler don't feel too much like filler now.

Airport to HEAVEN!!! Sounds like a JoJo part 6 before JoJo part 6

Toriyama was the Supervisor for both animes

if toriyama okays the episodes im calling it all canon.

You should do an analysis on dragon ball kakumei artstyle

Thanks for the video man, it was very interesting

I wish that most of designs would return back to canon.

Ok now It makes a crap ton of sense why DBZ filler is so good ... R.I.P the legend 😢

Congrats on the 20 k!!! I remember much of Toriyama's involvement in the anime was covered in the Daizenshu guide books( I was lucky to get 4 of them.) Fantastic coverage! I'm glad to see creators involved with their adaptations. Tite Kubo would be another example!

So Toriyama did intended to make a relationship between Lunch and Tien... or sort of Anyways, congrats for you 20k, sometimes I wonder why you don't have 100k subs yet, but hey, better 20k than nothing, keep it coming

So.. does that make the filler canon?

Absolutely Mind blown.

I never knew the Saiyans where the ones who created the Saibamen,

En el próximo vídeo podría hacer un vídeo sobre el animador Shingo Ishikawa

The fire eater is based on a cassowary not an ostrich.

I thought Toriyama designed Gogeta, huh. Either way congrats on 20k. Anyone can see you work hard

A new banger yessir

Congratulations for 20k

when you thing about it, Toriyama seems to have a lot more work to do on top of his work with no breaks

5:58 Well, that right there might explain why he never appeared much in the show then

Hiya

Too many pictures

It should be noted that toriyama was likely referring to Japanese fairy tales very specifically with regards to the art style. Think Japanese scroll art.

It doesn't happen often where I'm actually stunned by how high quality a video is. Great work!

It's funny that people rip on so much of these non canon things that toriyama had pretty much the same level of involvement in as super which they turn around and ragefully insist is objectively canon. Honestly I don't think Akira toriyama himself actually cares about the canon or making it all make sense. The fans are the ones that make canon a really weird discussion to have around any series.

I would really appreciate it if someone could send me 1 million dollars so that I too could tell my own comic book (manga) stories. I need money. I need enough money to produce several books. There are creators out there, that are very talented and yet, money is holding them back. I no longer want this restraint.

This channel is too underrated.. spreading it around facebook n reddit grps of dbz cud help you. Wishing you growth 👍

I don't get why US people change the names of so many characters and other japanese-related stuff, my guess is that it has something to do with some degree of racism.

Hey

does anyone know how u find the dragonball special with launch and that

Before I watch the video I think he made gregory from dragon ball z?

Does Akira Toriyama do all the art on the Dbz guidebooks

Idk if you remember, but you once sad you didn’t know who was responsible for all the dbz promo artwork and I recently stumbled upon this. Junya furusawa is responsible for the promo artwork!

I can imagine not much especially since he was more concerned about his model kits

thank you, akira. thank you 👍👍

great video!

Please another one but this time about DBS

How could cooler be real ? I’m saying this because he’s more powerful than freiza was in his final form yet he just appears out of nowhere

Just subscribed 😎👍🏻👍🏻

Isn't the colors of Vegeta when he appear a mistake and Toriyama call to the studio to let them know they messed up the colors for Vegeta and Nappa, that wouldn't be a contribution as well, if this was true, we never know if is exaggerated info or real facts XD.

Great video bro! But I just want to mention that "race" is not a scientific way to say "ethnicity". This in 11:20 when you talk about Metallic hahaha.

Toriyama is the goat

What about GT? There's a lot of Toriyama illustrations and character designs from Toriyama for GT. I know that the title says "Z" but you also showed the stuff from the original Dragon Ball so I was confused with GT missing.

It's understandable but sad that manga authors aren't really involved in anime. . .

:)

Wait didn't Toriyama also design Gogeta for the Fusion Reborn movie though?

Wait so he designed cooler and his forth form??? If so this begs the question why he didn't use him in the show when knowing he had a huge fan base? But whatever the redesign of brolly and his approach to the character are not my fave at all. So honestly I don't care about the show the creator sucks and has no care of actually making his show good.

Thank Kami for Toriyama