‘Dragon Ball’ Creator Akira Toriyama Passes Away At 68
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Akira Toriyama, creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, has passed away at the age of 68.
This news comes from Capsule Corporation Tokyo and Bird Studio, Toriyama’s manga production company, and has been spread across social media through the official Dragon Ball accounts, informing fans around the world that he passed away on March 1st due to acute subdermal hematoma.
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Toriyama penned a multitude of manga, but as most know, his greatest success was the Dragon Ball series, which began publication in 1984, and spawned countless sequels, anime adaptations, video games, and movies, including the upcoming anime “Dragon Ball Daima.” Outside of Dragon Ball, he would produce a handful of one-shot manga as well, including “Sand Land,” which received a film adaptation last year, and has an anime continuation on its way later this year.
Sadly, this means Toriyama has left us with some unfinished works, but he will be remembered fondly for his over 45 years of storytelling that shaped and redefined the shonen genre and anime as a whole, became mainstays of pop culture around the world thanks to his iconic characters and worlds, and inspired countless other storytellers and creators, and will continue to do so for years to come.
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