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Akira Toriyama

A Manga Artist and Character Designer for Enix and Square Enix

Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama was born in April 1955 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. In 1974 he entered high school to study art specializing in publicity but abandoned this endeavor three years later to begin drawing cartoons.

Some time afterwards, he entered Shueisha, the biggest manga publisher in Japan, as a mangaka or cartoonist, where he started drawing for a living. It was here he published his first work as a professional. In December 1978, he published his first manga, Wonder Island in the popular Weekly Shonen Jump, and soon thereafter Dr. Slump, which ran from 1980 to 1984. It was then when he developed the infinitely popular Dragon Ball, which soon saw 42 volumes of material, three full-length series (two with his involvement), movies, video games, and absurd amounts of merchandising.

Toriyama depicted in Chrono Trigger

Toryiama's immense popularity was augmented as character designer for the Dragon Quest series, easily the most popular RPG series in Japan. In 1992, Toriyama was brought into the fold for the monumental classic, Chrono Trigger. Described by director Hironobu Sakaguchi as "playing around with Toriyama's universe," the style and aesthetic of Chrono Trigger, including the world, characters, and monsters, were very much a Toriyama creation. Sakaguchi also attributes the whimsy and humor of Chrono Trigger to Toriyama's abilities to infuse his trademark styles into his creations.1

Toriyama continues to work on the Dragon Quest series to this day alongside his other manga endeavors, with no conceivable end in sight.

Notes

  1. V-Jump, ed (1995) (in Japanese). Chrono Trigger: The Perfect (Translation). Shueisha. pp. 290. (via Wikipedia, "Chrono Trigger") ↩

Credits  + Add Credits

1986
Dragon Quest
Nintendo Entertainment System
Chunsoft
1987
Dragon Quest II
Nintendo Entertainment System
Enix
1988
Dragon Quest III
Nintendo Entertainment System
Enix
1990
Dragon Quest IV
Nintendo Entertainment System
Enix
1992
Dragon Quest V
Super NES
Enix
1995
Chrono Trigger
Super NES
Square
Dragon Quest VI
Super NES
Heartbeat
1996
Tobal No. 1
PlayStation
Square
1997
Tobal 2
PlayStation
Dream Factory
2000
Dragon Quest VII
PlayStation
Enix
2004
Dragon Quest VIII
PlayStation 2
Square Enix
2005
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Nintendo DS
Square Enix
2006
Dragon Quest: Young Yangus and the Mysterious Dungeon
PlayStation 2
Square Enix
Blue Dragon
Xbox 360
Mistwalker
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
Nintendo DS
TOSE
2007
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Wii
Genius Sonority
2009
Dragon Quest IX
Nintendo DS
Level-5

News & Blogs

Ni no Kuni epitomizes the old-school console RPG

Ni No Kuni...epitomizes the old-school console RPG; in fact, it feels more like a classic Dragon Quest game than recent Dragon Quest sequels do...Imagine if DQVIII's sequel had appeared on an HD system rather than on the tiny DS, that Akira Toriyama's artwork had been swapped out for image design by Studio Ghibli, and that the combat system added a real-time element and played up the monster-collecting mechanics of Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VII...To top off the Dragon Quest vibe, Ni No Kuni's English localization has been spearheaded by Richard Honeywood, the former head of Squaresoft localization who defined the Dragon Quest dialogue style with his work on DQVIII. Ni No Kuni reads and sounds exactly like it was ripped from the DQ world; characters speak with a variety of European dialects (including a persnickety Welsh monster companion) and puns abound. A feline fortune teller is called a "Purrognosticator"; a pig soldier is called a "Boarrior"; and the mechanical pig boss you battle at the demo's end is called "Porco Grosso." That... is Ni No Kuni. And it's endlessly charming.

Mistwalker reveals first X-Box 360 title

Mistwalker reveals first X-Box 360 title

The first next generation Mistwalker title was revealed in the form of a scan in some Japanese magazine today. There are no details pertaining to the title except for the name of the game: Blue Dragon. With Akira Toriyama at the helm of character design, it will be the first Sakaguchi-Toriyama collaboration since Chrono Trigger in 1995.1

Notes

  1. SquareNet ↩

New Dragon Quest VIII imagery surfaces
New Dragon Quest VIII imagery surfaces

The not-yet-released weekend edition of Japanese gaming magazine V-Jump will have a new page of information on Squenix's Dragon Quest VIII which, if not particularly interesting to your average Final Fantasy fanatic, is at the very least different in its attempt to bring the archaic series into 3d finally. The screens portray some basic activity in the game, such as battling, which looks a lot like Chrono Cross for some reason. The celshaded, cartoony look appears to bring Toriyama designs to life quite nicely, too. UPDATE: more here and here (07/17)1

Notes

  1. Gamefront ↩

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