The Genius of Dragon Ball 

I know why you're here. Come, let's celebrate our hero together

Rest in piece, Toriyama, you've created a legendary series.

The end made me cry. Rest in peace Akira Toriyama

Had to come back to this video after finally reading the Dragon Ball manga and, sadly, the untimely passing of Akira Toriyama. RIP to an illustrative legend. In a very real and discernable way, he changed global culture.

Well the argument is over. It is neither, Bulma, nor Chi-Chi, nor Videl, nor 18. Mrs Toriyama is Best Girl. And is literally a waifu. A Real Laifu Waifu in fact.

Not enough people talk about the complexity of character design and page structure of manga. Honestly, this video is one of the reasons as to why you're my favorite anime youtuber. Please keep up the great work.

I'm very lucky to have found Dragon Ball before Z.. I had absolutely no idea it existed! Was so shocked to see Goku all grown up. I walked through the timeline without spoilers. I love my life

The thing about Akira Toriyama's wife partially inspiring Dragon Ball reminded me of how Stephen King's wife fished her husband's manuscript for Carrie out of the trash

So the reason we have Dragon Ball today.. is because of Toriyama's wife? That's a pretty cool tid bit of information.

I was a kid when I got hooked on DBZ, and just like all kids started drawing out the characters the fight scenes, always loved drawing and finally loved something to draw. Had this friend who was far superior in drawing, he drew his Goku, I'd draw my Vegeta, and ask our classmates who was better, he made me improve my art. Lost that friend 4 years ago to cancer, but those are the moments I remember and love. RIP Akshay.

RIP Akira Toriyama. Listening to this after hearing the news. 🙏🥋🐉😪

RIP Akira Toriyama, you are the GOAT

Dragon Ball cemented the era for my beginning as becoming a big anime and manga fan with Dr. Slump years later. The main thing that drew me was the lively characters and colorful atmosphere, there's never a dull moment with the cast because they're well fit for lighthearted moments and action. Also, his Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger character designs were always memorable for me.

Mrs. Toriyama is the hero we needed.

The Fall of the Bleach The End of Naruto The Appeal of One Piece The Genius of Dragon Ball

Akirya Toriyama inspired Masashi Kishimoto(Naruto Creator), Tite Kubo(Bleach Creator, Eichro Oda ( One Piece Creator ) and Modern Anime As A Whole So if it wasn't for DBZ other great manga/anime wouldn't be like what they are today ( this is to The Dbz Haters ) + 21 Year's On the series is still popular and talked about as if it never ended and it's still making content like dragon ball super, games, figurines etc You Could Call It ''The Star-wars of Anime''

Talking about a series I love as much as Jojo's... You treat me too well :')

RIP Toriyama-san

I'm a character designer and an illustrator and I love how you know fundamental things like character design and composition. It makes your video very professional, detailed, and awesome. Keep up the great work!

I love your videos. Greetings from Italy, we love Dragon Ball here.

This was a Phenomenal video dude!

Dragonball is and always will be the archetipe of shounen battle series. More than Jojo, more than Fist of the North Star, more than any other. It will always be one of my favourites mangas of all time. To all people who may think the series is dated, that it really cannot compete with what we have today: I suggest you to read the manga and prove if this idea of yours is true or not. I'm sure that, even only a little, you will be amazed and almost fascinated by how beautifully crafted the manga series is. To this day, Dragonball fight scenes are some of the most clear, eye-friendly and easy to follow drawings I've personally ever read. Plus, the pure sense of adventure you breath through all the first part of the series (untill the defeat of Piccolo) is one of the most entertaining experiences a manga reader can ever have in my opinion. Of what the series became afterwards we could talk about forever. Many people hate the post-Frieza, other people love it... whatever. I personally enjoy everything untill the end of the Cell saga, which to this day is one of the best for me (even though my favourite will always be the Saiyan arc). Really... I could not stress this enough: try to re-read Dragonball.. or actually.. to read it for the first time, since many people only watched the debatably "good" anime... and I can assure that many of you won't be disappointed.

DBZ was always pretty okay for my taste BUT I've always preferred DragonBall over the other two. Nice to see someone giving credit to the DragonBall most people confuse and forget of.

Me: well, I think this kid has a neat hairstyle, is really funny and is pretty cute This dude: soft curves creates a calm and innocent feeling to an individual, which in turn can be countercalculated via the jagged hair, creating a wilder appearance. This in turn not only symbolises Goku's personality but also informs the narrative structure and is symbolic for the way in which the series is portrayed. Welp...

I think Dragon Ball hits the perfect sort of aesthetic that I've found I like the most. Adventurous, (at the time) unpredictable and innovative with a layer of lightheartedness and charm, with unique interesting design choices in basically all aspects. I actually like Dragon Ball better than Z/GT/whatever -- not that I don't like them, just the original fits my personal tastes much better than catacylsm-of-the-week brawl fests. Same reasons I loved Slayers, Wakfu and Hunter x Hunter.

Fantastic as always sir.

All insanely popular anime gets shit on. AOT for example. Once Jojo's bizarre adventure gets there, people will ridicule it as well, despite it being labelled a minor masterpiece just now. Quite sad really.

The argument I see the most is that dbz does all the tropes but the thing is dbz MADE all the tropes

R.I.P. Toriyama

The way I didn't even look this up it just popped up on my recommended :(

It's confirmed. Toriyama's wife has influenced all of anime.

Rip to a legend. Akira Toriyama 🫡

Aw hell yeah a SuperEyepatchWolf vid, time to crack out the popcorn and vaseline

*The origin story form where the legend started.* *Not enough people give attention to the original Dragon Ball, because it was more childish and less combat oriented, but this is where the Z series was born form.* *_But nonetheless even on it’s own it stands strong proud against it’s successor, and any anime of that period._*

RIP to the man that inspired a generation. Akira Toriyama will be heavily missed.

Toriyama's wife a hero

Dragon Ball and Hunter x Hunter are my 2 favorite series. I really enjoy the large cast of interesting characters, cool and unique powers, and great adventure and constantly changing setting. DBZ was good, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as DB and it's kinda sad that so many people who "love" DBZ have never seen or even heard of DB

I"ve loved every minutes, goodbye .... my friends - Goku

Rest in Peace, hope we will see you in other world Akira Toriyama

Rest in peace Akira Toriyama, you created so much magic over the years

Man I miss Lunch.

You always manage to explain why shonen is the best and thanks for pointing out the value of Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball is truly timeless

Came back today. Had to with his recent passing

yepieee finally a Dragon Ball video

RIP GOAT

To The Man, Myth, the Legend Akira Toriyama

RIP the goat

Also, for those who know Dr Slump, Editor Torishima is the inspiration for evil Dr Mashirito (to-ri-shi-ma/ma-shi-ri-to), one of the funniest villains ever

4:00 BUTTERFLY EFFECT IS REAL

Rest in Peace, Master Akira Toriyama. Your work is pivotal in getting the West and rest of the world to getting into Japanese Shonen Anime

rest in peace GOAT

Whether people want to admit it or not Toriyama is a genius and The DragonBall franchise is the most popular anime of all time (imo) & its probably the most influential on other shonen and in pop culture. Its a top 5 anime of all time, people try to dive into all its flaws without pointing out its good. Strong characters, a good story, amazing action, Comedy. DragonBall is one long story told in theee different ways DB an adventure comedy, DBZ mainly action, DBS a combination of the two action. The manga is fantastic, & although the anime especially the In house Funimation dub made Goku more heroic than he was in all the DragonBall franchise is the reason most of us got into anime & its still going strong today. Sure they're anime with deeper stories and nore developed characters but the DragonBall franchise layed the foundation for all of that & it deserves its place in the upper echelon of anime.

Eichiro Oda (One Piece creator) has learned from the master and legend. He couldn't have had a better teacher. Edit: Well, whoops. Mixed some stuff here. He worked with him on Cross Epoch but recalls him all the time as his idol and his biggest influence on OP. One article back then claimed it so I thought it was real.

If dragon ball and dbz never existed then No one punch man,naruto,one piece,my hero academia,bleach,fairy tail and alot more would never had existed

R.I.P Akira toriyama

Dude your channel has blown up so hard well deserved! I swear it was only early last year I was complaining you only had 7k subs!!

I love this video, and it's going to see more views now. The details on how Toriyama uses single panels to show multiple events really highlight how Toriyama was known for not only the series he made, but his skill in artistic storytelling.

RIP to the great Akira Toriyama

people like to shit on dragon ball but all the best shonens wouldn't exist with out it. it's influential to manga the way Simpsons is to adult animated comedies.

I want to see more technical analysis of presentation in Manga from you.

RIP THE GOAT

What I love about Dragonball and DBZ, is that they keep that light heartedness in check at all times. AT keeps it rather simple and doesn't really deviate from the fundamental values he imbued into 99% of his characters. It makes it super easy to just point a finger and directly say "this is the bad guy and this is the good guy". Nowadays everybody is about edgy teen drama.

DB was much funnier, then DBZ.. Ich really loved it!

RIP Akira Toriyama.

The older I get the more I prefer the early Mangas and DB over the later ones and DBZ. But even as a teenager, while being hyped for DBZ, I always preferred the more adventurous, creative, surreal and inspirational tone of DB (and the associated mangas). I also remember the Great Saiyaman Saga being my favorite part about DBZ when watching it in my late teens, as it remembered me of the tone of DB. After watching DB with my wife when we got together and now recently with our daughter, young Goku grew so close to my heart, it almost hurts thinking about it. DBZ just doesn't even closely manage to fill my heart with emotions of happiness, inspiration and nostalgia in the same way as DB does.

Rest in peace to the legend Akira Toriyama.

came here after i heard the news RIP king

Always a pleasure to watch these videos man, keep up the great work!

So Dragon Ball’s layout is literally that of the letter Z. God damn it Toriyama, you brilliant man

It was a huge youth cultural phenomenon around 2001 in Germany. I vividly remember being mad the double episode special that was on every night at 7 pm was skipped on september 11th 2001 for breaking news

This was amazing. Thank you.

Eyepatch wolf giving insight into creating illustrations and designs is why I think he is going to become a huge youtuber! Keep it up Wolf and have you checked out a movie called Jin-roh?

Goku's "innocence" huh..... too bad that doesn't exist anymore in DB super.......

RIP AKIRA TORIYAMA 🪦🥀

Toriyama: Trying to come up with ideas for new manga 🤔😰 His Wife with Tea: Im bout to kickstart this man's entire career 👀☕👌🏾

RIP Toriyama sensei. love always 🇲🇽

Was a interesting analysis of plot and design, definitely Toriyama is a genius mangaka

RIP Akira Toriyama

Good video but on top of Toriyama's wife helping him with the idea do a martial arts series, forgot to include where the character inspirations came from which was Journey to the West.

It was the same for me, here in germany! i was around 6 years old and skipping through the programms and the first scene i saw was, when freeza kiled krillin :D

The main issue with Toriyama's later work is that he's a comedy/adventure writer. He did great work with Slump and Dragonball, but didn't really know how to handle a more serious tone.

Genkidama, Super Saiyans, Kamehameha, Chala Head Chala, nothing of that if the wife didn't said a thing in that moment... my god

This was great. As a westerner who watched DBZ on morning tv then went back and watched Dragonball on DVD years later, I think this perfectly sums up the charm of Dragonball. The fact that so many of Dragonball's characters remain so consistent from Dragonball right through to Dragonball Z just makes the show so fun to watch.

It's always a good day when you come home from college and there's a new Super Eyepatch Wolf video. Great job, man!

I think people take relative time as time passed in the anime, cause goku and his enemy's are faster than light or can move at light speed so most battles. Have to be shown slowed down. Which brings up an interesting question do they talk that fast. At times we see the characters clearly and can easily follow what they're doing but other times in the same battles it'll zoom out and be all over the place in an instant and all we see is the animation if the shockwaves made by attacks.

RIP Akira Toriyama-sensei

Rest in piece Akira Toriyama o7

Beautiful I feel inspired I have been creating a comic for a year and i plan too publish it soon so seeing this really makes me look at it the different way I feel like its not good enough every time i look at the videos like this but it motivates me to work even harder Maybe one day i do something...who knows Great video btw Quality as always :D

I feel US fans loose a lot for not having the original Dragon Ball, they don't have the growth I guess

Let me just run this by you lovely people,.. Imagine a world without dragon ball, that would be one hella sad world

When I was a teen, I was all about DBZ. Now that I'm old, I prefer Dragonball, it just felt like a fun adventure with always discovering new places, people, and something different every episode. With DBZ, you could predict exactly what was going to happen almost every arc.

Fuck yeah Chrono trigger. Toriyama early works was his best so much life was in those characters.

BRO the growth part of DBZ is the best parts of it all together! I loved watching goku grow and then see the results in which he gained from that training. It gave it a REAL feel that maybe even his power was attainable. (besides the super sayain part.) But Dragon Ball did a hell of a job doing this.

About time we got some appreciation of Dragonball and Dragonball Z! I love the Dragonball Z memes too, but there's a reason so many people my age are anime fans today and it's thanks to Dragonball Z/Sailor Moon or both.

Another two things that makes Dragonball special are; 1) the integration of some elements of the Chinese novel 'Journey to the West', 2) how foes and villains were always given a second chance and they eventually became friends and allies of Goku

DB/dbz and jojo are my two favorite series of all time glad you apreciate them both (please make a why you should watch/read dragon Ball z)

Dragon Ball is an amazing series. The fact that people are still talking about it today says a lot.

4:06 Thank you Mrs. Toriyama, thank you so much.

Thank You Akira Toriyama! 🙏 Thank you for the amazing memories I will hold on to forever and keep going back to. Rest In Peace 🕊️