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Akira Toriyama – Dragon Ball
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明) Toriyama Akira, born April 5, 1955, in Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan is a widely known and acclaimed Japanese manga artist and game artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984.
The series begins with a young monkey-tailed boy named Son Goku befriending a teenage girl named Bulma. Together, they go on a quest to find the seven Dragon Balls. Goku later undergoes rigorous (and humorous) training regimes and educational programs under the martial artist Master Roshi in order to fight in the World Martial Arts Tournament, a competition involving the most powerful fighters in the world. Outside the tournaments, Goku faces diverse villains such as Emperor Pilaf, the Red Ribbon Army, and the Namekian Piccolo Daimao. Several of the enemies and rivals Goku encounters eventually become his allies and close friends, including the desert bandit Yamcha, his martial arts classmate Krillin, the assassin Tien Shinhan, the samurai Yajirobe, and Piccolo Daimao’s offspring/reincarnation Piccolo Jr.
As a young adult, Goku meets his brother Raditz, who reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called Sayians. The Saiyans had sent Goku to Earth as an infant to conquer the planet for them, but he suffered a severe head injury soon after his arrival and lost all memory of his mission, as well as his blood-thirsty Saiyan nature. Goku refuses to help Raditz continue the mission, after which he begins to encounter other enemies from space, most notably the Saiyan prince Vegeta, who becomes his rival due to Vegeta’s obsessive desire to surpass Goku in strength, though in the process, he too eventually becomes Goku’s ally. Goku also encounters Frieza, the galactic emperor responsible for the destruction of the Saiyan race, whose actions cause Goku to transform into a fabled Super Saiyan. After an epic battle on the planet Namek (which shortly after, explodes), Goku defeats Frieza, avenging the lives of billions across the galaxy.
Some time later, a group of androids from the former Red Ribbon Army appear, seeking revenge against Goku. During this time, an evil life form called Cell emerges and, after absorbing two of the androids to increase his power, holds his own fighting tournament to decide the fate of the Earth, but is eventually defeated by Goku’s first child Son Gohan. Seven years later, Goku is drawn into another battle for the universe against a magical monster named Majin Buu. After many battles, Goku destroys the evil original Majin Buu and the good part of Buu settles down with them. Ten years later, at another World Martial Arts Tournament, Goku meets the evil Buu’s human reincarnation, Uub. Leaving the match between the two of them unfinished, Goku takes Uub away on a journey to train him as the Earth’s next defender.
The other series of Dragon Ball are :
- Dragon Ball Z
- Dragon Ball GT
- Dragon Ball Z Kai
About Manga, Anime and Cartoon
Manga (漫画)) is a word in Japanese comics. Outside of Japan, is the word to talk about Japanese comics used. Manga is divided into two streams, or types, such as the Shounen and Shoujo flow divided known. Shounen is a comic book kind of guy, for example the work of Akira Toriyama Dragon Ball, where stories tend Shounen rather to the category “Action”, during Shoujo Comics is the kind of woman as a gift Save My Earth by Saki Hiwatari story works, the usually this type of lighter and softer.
Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, which is usually characterized by colorful images of characters in a variety of places and stories for the different target groups. Anime drawing style influenced the manga, Japanese comics. Anime, commonly known as a caricature, but in reality there are many differences between the two types of film. Cartoons are entertaining in the rule for children with the goal and have a history of lighter and simpler, while the anime has a weight of history rather difficult and complex, depending on the type of anime so, where anime is for children and adults be classified as the type of television episodes, original video animation and widescreen.