Akira Toriyama

I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

Saiyans don't have much of a concept of 'family.'

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.

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 an economic human without any likes or dislikes!

Maybe I'm just like a child. I'm full of curiosity about things, and it's fine as long as it's fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

It's too bad that 'Dragon Ball,' which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I'm incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around!

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.

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.

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.