Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Akira Toriyama
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.
It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'
I use Pilot's document ink, but their drawing ink is OK, too. It's just that I don't like the impression that clings to the pen tip.
With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... I couldn't use the weird stuff I drew while dozing off, so I'd end up having to draw it all over again.
There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.
In the beginning, I was planning to end 'Dragon Ball' when all seven Dragon Balls had been collected.
There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.
I liked how 'Star Wars' felt both old and new. I even built a model of R2-D2, taking about two months mixing two kits to make one that looked just like the real thing. I'm the kind of person who gets really into it when I do something like that.
At one point, I had close to 100 birds.
Do you remember 'Super Saiyan 3?' I forgot about it, and I thought that was 'Super Saiyan 2,' even though I created those characters.
Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.
It's a pain to draw different-looking humans.
The setting of 'Dragon Ball' has a sort of Chinese feel to it, but it's not necessarily limited to China. For the time period as well, exactly when it takes place is indeterminate.
The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.
I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.
I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.
I prefer things nice and simple.
I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. Except I wasn't a morning person, so I was quite frequently late for work. On top of that, it was a fairly big company, they were fussy about the dress code, and I got chewed out quite often.
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. So where, for 'Slump,' the art was very America-esque, in the case of 'Dragon Ball,' I made it as Chinese as could be.
I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.
I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me 'famous' and such, I can't really fathom it, even now.
I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.
Both my assistant and my wife tell me that during battle scenes, when a character is making a 'guwaa' sort of face, my face also ends up going 'guwaa.' So afterwards, my whole face is tired. I guess it's because I'm the kind of guy who gets caught up in his own work.
A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.
Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.
I've always liked to draw.
I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. It's quite dramatic and the kind of story I absolutely wouldn't draw if it were me. It was like watching a different kind of 'Dragon Ball' in a good way, so I thought it was nice.
I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think?
If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible.
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.
I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.
I'm an economic human without any likes or dislikes!
I guess I like Piccolo the most after all. Out of all the enemies, Piccolo Daimao is the one I like most, and even after that, I like Piccolo the most.
Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.
In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that much once I started junior high. I think it's probably because I got caught up in movies and TV.
I probably have the most fun thinking up original vehicles. I usually consider details such as how to get into them and where their engines are. When you draw a real-world car, you have to obtain some references. I'd hate to have someone point out that I'm wrong. But if it's something I invented, I can have it my way.
Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.'
I'm not the kind of person who enjoys big crowds very much.
Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.
If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute!
Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.
Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.
If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.
I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.
Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at all.
I like Piccolo about the same as I like Goku.
I love girls, whether they wear glasses or not!
There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.
The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can't draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw ones who are strong-willed.
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.
I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.
I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.
In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.
It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money.
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.
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