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Akira Toriyama

Profession : Artist

Birth : April 5, 1955

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.

Akira Toriyama

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.

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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.

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When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

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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.

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I use a G-Pen from Zebra. Different people have different preferred pen nibs. I don't put much force on it when I draw, so I'll generally use a single nib for about three chapters.

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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.

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So many, many people have helped me out with 'Dragon Ball' through the years. Obviously, there are the fans from all over the world who've cheered me on.

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I'm not the kind of person who enjoys big crowds very much.

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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.

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I prefer things nice and simple.

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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.

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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.

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I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

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

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I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.

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A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

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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.

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Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.

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What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.

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