#Blue dragon

[demifiendrsa]

Famed manga creator Akira Toriyama has passed away on March 1, 2024 at age 68 due to acute subdural hematoma.

Toriyama began his first serialized manga, Dr. Slump, in 1980, and it inspired two television anime and multiple films. Toriyama followed it up with Dragon Ball, which ran from 1984 to 1995, and is still inspiring manga and anime sequels and spinoffs today. The manga's Dragon Ball anime adaptation, its sequel Dragon Ball Z, and its other numerous sequels and anime films are equally as well-known as the manga, and its hero Goku has become a character known throughout the world.

Toriyama is also well-known as the character designer for the Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon and Tobal games.

Most recently, Toriyama was working closely with the production for the Dragon Ball Daima anime series, the most recent anime series based on Dragon Ball, and is credited for the new anime's story and character designs.

[dragon-ball-meta]

Finally feel like I can say something coherent, so here goes... I say this without a shred of exaggeration: Akira Toriyama was legitimately one of the most important creative figures of the last 50 years. His work, especially Dragon Ball, has influenced SO much even outside its own medium. Movies, TV, cartoons, comic books, video games, MUSIC... all of it. You can see his fingerprints in so many other works. Even now, artists and writers, voice actors and animators, musicians and game devs are all mourning him and reflecting on the impact he had on their own work. Titans of anime and manga are sharing in this pain. The craziest thing about this though? The humility he had in spite of it. He was always reluctant to be in the spotlight, preferred to keep his head down and just work, never really worried that much about public perception of himself. Part of what makes him such an icon, man. Losing him is losing a piece of our shared history. It's something that resonates deep in the hearts of everyone his work touched. This is just... such a loss. And I can't even begin to imagine what his family is going through right now. Praying for them all. Rest in Peace to a literal Legend, an absolute Icon, and a personal inspiration in more ways than I could ever express properly.

[asunnydisposish]

Happy Year of the Dragon | 새해 복 많이 받으세요

Wishing an auspicious year of the Blue Dragon to you and your family! 🐉

[radiobarf]

A tribute piece for Akira Toriyama

鳥山 先生、どうもありがとうございました。

Rest in Peace

[boxskie]

🥶❤️‍🔥 Azula

[thekansta]

Shin-ha 💙

[circusinarun]

Hey! Check out my pressure oc!

[mrsthunderkin]

This was an inevitable joke

[mischiefmaverick]

We lost another legendary creator

RIP Akira Toriyama

[darantha]

Sometimes even a dragon needs to have a older sibling investigate the angry snappy little thing.

Process video, hi-res files etc will be out with Patreon rewards on Nov 5 :)

[kness]

A water dragon 🐉🦦 available June 8th

[without-ado]

Happy Year of the Dragon

l 운룡도 Dragon in Clouds l Joseon l 19th Century l National Folk Museum of Korea

[dragon-ball-meta]

It's April 5th in Japan. Would have been Akira Toriyama's 69th birthday today.

Still so surreal and hard to think about him being gone.

He lives on in our hearts, though. Happy birthday, Toriyama-sensei.

[herpsandbirds]

Blue Dragon Nudibranch (Glaucus atlanticus), family Glaucidae, order Nudibranchia

via: 1 Minute Animals

[electric-blue24]

very messy thing i drew to practice perspective

remember when visiting your local dragon make sure to notify them, you wouldn't want to be mistaken for a theif now would you

[soup-effect]

Happy Lunar New Year💙🐉