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Akira Toriyama was a shy and reserved person who did not like interviews. His manga, including all of the 42 volumes of Dragon Ball, contain certain cover
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flap images that reference Toriyama's real life. It is mainly through those autobiographical elements that one can learn about his life. Most of the images contain drawings of an animated Toriyama, busy creating new manga ideas, or frustrated with work. A few cover flap images are real-life pictures of him, his pets, and his children.

Akira Toriyama liked girls with short hair. He married the shojo manga artist Nachi Mikami (referred to as "Yoshimi" in the final volume of Dr. Slump) in 1955, and they had two children: a son named Sasuke, born in April 1987, and a daughter, Kikka, born in late 1990.
During his career, Toriyama created over 40 manga series. Akira Toriyama has always been very concerned about his work, not hesitating to redraw again and again the same illustration because he does not find it perfect. Thus, he spent many sleepless nights working, and often complains of lack of free time. Conversely, he hated to dwell on an illustration, wanting to finish it in one draw as soon as possible in order to quickly judge the result.

Akira Toriyama working on a scale model (1955)
Toriyama preferred to live in quieter rural areas where he could devote himself to both his work and his family rather than in big cities. The assembly of scale models was one of his biggest hobbies; he possessed dozens of models, and often found himself assembling models instead of working.Toriyama loved animals and had raised many; at the time of Dr. Slump, he owned two dogs named Turbo(-maru) and Turbo II, a cat named Ohiru, and many birds. At the time of Dragon Ball, he owned a Siberian husky named Matryoshka (nicknamed "Mato"), and he also had a black cat called Koge. After Mato's death in 1995, he began taking care of a Welsh Corgi dog named Toma (depicted on the cover flap of ), and starting in 1999, a Cornish Rex cat (upon which he based the design for the character, as well as some elements of ), and many birds. Akira Toriyama enjoyed playing video games, watching movies (his favorites being Alien and Galaxy Quest), taking the air with his dog, and riding motorcycles (a passion that never left him since he got his license in 1984). Ironically, he claimed that he did not have much interest in manga and anime, saying that he enjoyed it until he was about 11, after which his interest shifted to movies. Toriyama's greatest pleasure was having a great family life.

Description

Akira Toriyama was a shy and reserved person who did not like interviews. His manga, including all of the 42 volumes of Dragon Ball, contain certain cover
www.deviantart.com/nightchaoti…
flap images that reference Toriyama's real life. It is mainly through those autobiographical elements that one can learn about his life. Most of the images contain drawings of an animated Toriyama, busy creating new manga ideas, or frustrated with work. A few cover flap images are real-life pictures of him, his pets, and his children.

Akira Toriyama liked girls with short hair. He married the shojo manga artist Nachi Mikami (referred to as "Yoshimi" in the final volume of Dr. Slump) in 1955, and they had two children: a son named Sasuke, born in April 1987, and a daughter, Kikka, born in late 1990.
During his career, Toriyama created over 40 manga series. Akira Toriyama has always been very concerned about his work, not hesitating to redraw again and again the same illustration because he does not find it perfect. Thus, he spent many sleepless nights working, and often complains of lack of free time. Conversely, he hated to dwell on an illustration, wanting to finish it in one draw as soon as possible in order to quickly judge the result.

Akira Toriyama working on a scale model (1955)
Toriyama preferred to live in quieter rural areas where he could devote himself to both his work and his family rather than in big cities. The assembly of scale models was one of his biggest hobbies; he possessed dozens of models, and often found himself assembling models instead of working.Toriyama loved animals and had raised many; at the time of Dr. Slump, he owned two dogs named Turbo(-maru) and Turbo II, a cat named Ohiru, and many birds. At the time of Dragon Ball, he owned a Siberian husky named Matryoshka (nicknamed "Mato"), and he also had a black cat called Koge. After Mato's death in 1995, he began taking care of a Welsh Corgi dog named Toma (depicted on the cover flap of ), and starting in 1999, a Cornish Rex cat (upon which he based the design for the character, as well as some elements of ), and many birds. Akira Toriyama enjoyed playing video games, watching movies (his favorites being Alien and Galaxy Quest), taking the air with his dog, and riding motorcycles (a passion that never left him since he got his license in 1984). Ironically, he claimed that he did not have much interest in manga and anime, saying that he enjoyed it until he was about 11, after which his interest shifted to movies. Toriyama's greatest pleasure was having a great family life.