Akira Toriyama
aka:
鳥山 明,
とりやま あきら
Moby ID: 62994
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Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was born in the outskirts of Nagoya, Japan. In 1974 he entered high school to study art specializing in publicity. In 1977 he decided to abandon this to enroll in cartoon drawing.
Some time afterwards, he entered Shueisha, the biggest manga publisher in Japan, as a mangaka or cartoonist, where he started drawing as a professional. It was here he published his first work as a professional. In December 1978, he published his first manga, Wonder Island in the popular Shonen Weekly Jump.
Akira Toriyama is most known for designing the popular manga series Dragon Ball. In the world of video games, his most important work is character design for the famous RPG series Dragon Quest.
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 51 games with Yuji Horii
- 49 games with Koichi Sugiyama
- 39 games with Yū Miyake
- 38 games with Taichi Inuzuka
- 36 games with Yukinobu Chida
- 29 games with Takashi Kamimura
- 29 games with Noriyoshi Fujimoto
- 29 games with Reiko Kondo
- 28 games with Yukihiro Shibuya
- 28 games with Ryoichi Kuramochi
Companies
- 28 games with Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- 21 games with Tose Co., Ltd.
- 20 games with Enix Corporation
- 15 games with Atari, Inc.
- 13 games with CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
- 12 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 12 games with Valve Corporation
- 11 games with Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- 10 games with Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
- 10 games with Shueisha Inc.
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