Quotes by Akira Toriyama - Page 2

Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Letters
Rude
Me Back Never
Presents
Received
Tons
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I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. I've liked those since way back when.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Disco
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Hectic
Japan
Method
Possible
Comics
Producing
Rewarding
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In manga, nothing actually moves, and you just have to draw the poses in each panel, but in anime, you have to draw the movements between those poses.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Anime
Manga
Movements
Panel
Poses
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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!
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Glad
Time Long Bad
Drew
Just Kidding
Leisurely
Very Long Time
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I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look at nothing but cartoons.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Cartoonist
Different Things
Besides
Comics
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I guess I like Piccolo the most after all. Out of all the enemies, Piccolo Daimao is the one I like most, and even after that, I like Piccolo the most.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Enemies
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Animation
Popeye
Boy
Boom
Read
Disney
Influenced
Manga
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I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me 'famous' and such, I can't really fathom it, even now.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Countryside
Fathom
Normal Life
Life Famous Me
Even Now
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Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Brat
Primary School
Drew
Entered
Vehicles
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I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Faster
Tone
Fill
Illustrations
Pen
Tablet
Via
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Curiosity
Fine
Tough
Time Hate Long
Same Time
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I say that I've never been late with a manuscript, but I don't mean to be arrogant; it's that I simply want to get it done as soon as possible so I can be set free.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Arrogant
Late
Free
Possible
Simply
Set
Manuscript
Soon
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I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think?
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Commonplace
Hairstyle
Styles
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Amount
Details
Accumulate
Somewhere
Tremendous
Depict
Exactly
Exactly The Way
Takes
Tremendous Amount
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I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Early Morning
Easy
Impossible
Lifestyle
Office
Anyway
Possible
Early
Soon
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Cartoonist
Regret
Anyhow
Figured
Pen
Real Name
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I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... I couldn't use the weird stuff I drew while dozing off, so I'd end up having to draw it all over again.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Weird
Twice
Draw
Drew
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Advertising
Agency
Comic
Designer
Particular
Advertising Agency
Drew
Graduating
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The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Gag
Manga
Permitted
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I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Impressed
Work Always Way
Animators
Work Way Always
Movements
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With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Conscious
Depth
Manga
Techniques
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Chapters
Different
Force
Single
Three
Different People
Draw
Generally
Put
Pen
Preferred
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Setting
Time Period
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For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Animation
Bother
Characteristics
Tone
Deliberately
Highlight
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Individuality
Deliberately
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When I'm out and about, it's rare for me to be recognized. But for some reason, every now and then, someone will know who I am. It might be because my picture occasionally appeared in 'Weekly Jump.'
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Now And Then
I Am Me Will
Appeared
Rare
I Am Me Picture
Jump
Occasionally
Recognized
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If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Handle
Tokyo
So Many People
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When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Drawing
Emphasis
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I guess that if I was a normal cartoonist who did things properly, I'd think up the background information first and then come up with the story. Saying that, you'd think that I don't really think through anything.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Cartoonist
Properly
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I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Anime
Avid
Thinking
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In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that much once I started junior high. I think it's probably because I got caught up in movies and TV.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Caught
Junior High
Primary School
Reading
Spite
Absorb
Comics
Junior
Primary
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Dramatic
Good Way
Good Me Father
Absolutely
Quite
Ball
Different Kind
Dragon
Draw
Good Father Me
Story
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I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. So where, for 'Slump,' the art was very America-esque, in the case of 'Dragon Ball,' I made it as Chinese as could be.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Setting
Tempo
Variety
Slump
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When I look at it, I don't really like people, and socializing is really awful. Outside of my family, friends, and those connected to my job, I don't think I actively want to meet anyone. I've always lived in the country, after all.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Socializing
Actively
Family Always Look
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With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Layout
Pages
Alter
Scenes
Dragon
Opened
Panel
Smaller
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It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Cartoonist
Deadline
Prize
Jump
Magazine
No Choice
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I liked how 'Star Wars' felt both old and new. I even built a model of R2-D2, taking about two months mixing two kits to make one that looked just like the real thing. I'm the kind of person who gets really into it when I do something like that.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Mixing
Real Thing
Star Wars
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Both my assistant and my wife tell me that during battle scenes, when a character is making a 'guwaa' sort of face, my face also ends up going 'guwaa.' So afterwards, my whole face is tired. I guess it's because I'm the kind of guy who gets caught up in his own work.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Battle
Caught
Afterwards
Assistant
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Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. If I made the real world the setting, I'd have to draw looking at reference materials for stuff like buildings and vehicles. When you do that, people complain even if it's just a little bit off.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Criteria
Materials
Real World
Setting
World People Looking
Buildings
Complain
World Looking People
Just A Little Bit
Reference
The Real World
Vehicles
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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.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Animated
Dissatisfied
Portrayal
Rate
Righteous
Sake
Son
Ball
Basically
Fight
Dragon
Gave
Guys
Wants
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Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Quality
Alone
Anime
Film
Upset
Work Past Me
Inside
Alone Work Me
Tv
Ball
Became
Dragon
Leave
Guess
Later
Point
Revised
Script
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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. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Art
Drawing
Ideas
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I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. Except I wasn't a morning person, so I was quite frequently late for work. On top of that, it was a fairly big company, they were fussy about the dress code, and I got chewed out quite often.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Code
Firm
Morning Person
Fairly
Big Company
Chewed
Frequently
Joined
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I probably have the most fun thinking up original vehicles. I usually consider details such as how to get into them and where their engines are. When you draw a real-world car, you have to obtain some references. I'd hate to have someone point out that I'm wrong. But if it's something I invented, I can have it my way.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Details
Engines
Obtain
References
Vehicles
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A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Dedicated
Garage
Humidity
Mold
Shocked
Work Grow People
Apparently
Charge
Exhibition
Manuscript
Piled
Properly
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