His widely read manga reached readers far beyond of Japan and served as the basis for multiple television, movie, and video game adaptations.
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1982 saw Akira Toriyama. The inventor of "Dragon Ball" passed away on March 1.Give credit...Getty Images/Jiji Press/Agence France-Presse
By Kiuko Notoya and John Yoon
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8 March 2024Revision 5:51 a.m. ET
One of the top manga and anime writers in Japan, Akira Toriyama, passed away on March 1. His work, "Dragon Ball," brought a blend of humorous characters and exciting martial arts combat to a global audience. He was sixty-eight.
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His manga and design production companies, Bird Studio and Capsule Corporation Tokyo, acknowledged his death on Friday and stated that the reason was an acute subdural hematoma, a condition in which blood pools between the skull and brain. Where he passed away was not mentioned.
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The corpus of work by Mr. Toriyama, which also includes "Dr. Slump" and "Sand Land," is well-known outside of Japan and has influenced other manga artists and cartoonists over the years.
The studio stated that at the time of his passing, he was working on multiple projects.
In "Dragon Ball," his most well-known creation, a little boy named Son Goku sets out on a quest to gather the seven mystical orbs that call forth a dragon that grants wishes. Having been created in the 1980s, the series has been adapted into film, television, and video games and has sold millions of copies worldwide over the course of 42 volumes. It is now one of the most well-known manga series.
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