#dragon and balls

[dragon-ball-meta]

Ohhh my God, the current VA for Foghorn Leghorn actually dubbed it.

[moominpappa]

[iluvluvnutella]

Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, dies at 68. Absolutely tragic. Rest in peace Legend.

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[william-snekspeare]

A spooky and snakey little short I've been working on! 🧡 Happy Halloween!

[t2ukky]

((Piccolo then choked on his drink and had a coughing fit.))

Was thinking about how funny things turn out with Piccolo and the Son family and this silly idea came out.

[ruinedchildhood]

[sunshinemoonrx]

Hey everyone! I made a "fun" "game" to torture my friends with! Which is weird because surely everyone knows what Goku looks like? Should be pretty simple?

Reviews:

"got i think one question in and went Ah fuck. SHIT"

"what do you mean one of them is actually called gohanks i thought that was a joke"

"THIS IS NOT OKAY"

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(EDIT: If you can't get past question three click 'continue' where it doesn't overlap an image underneath)

[fruitymarcy]

Goku is on Namek fightin that Frieza guy…Goku uhh…flyin or doin somethin over there…

[medakakurokami]

one thing i've always understood as Akira Toriyama's influence on manga, even if just assumption on my part, was how his cartooning came to bear when he started writing pure action manga. when I think of his contemporaries I think of overblown special moves like Saint Seiya or the gory fist clusters of FotNS

to me it seemed what Toriyama brought to the table was the satisfaction of clarity in martial arts

when you read his fight scenes, which may have become notorious when animated for dragging on, there's no question about what's happening in the action

a clear kick to the jaw

a clean line of action on Yajirobe's slice

I first noticed this clarity pretty quickly early on in the General Tao fights during the red ribbon arc, where entire fight scenes playing out with these clear motions on the pages

Even as it got more detailed later on, the clarity stayed

clear hits on clear fight scenes

and dirtier but still completely legible lines of action

And when he started introducing the big over the top special moves we got the same thing quite often in DB: that simple visual clarity amplifying the excitement

i'm not super coherent on it right now, i'm not the biggest shonen action fan all the time and maybe Toriyama didn't introduce the world to visually clear and interesting fights in manga.

but when I see any action manga showing off clean fight choreography or sick ass lazer beams that show off clear shockwaves of destruction, i'll always be thinking of the GOAT

RIP Akira Toriyama

[dragon-ball-meta]

This is such a Toriyama joke, omg.

[kingcrimsonsalt]

Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)

He was genuinely one of the very best, no one did it like him. Goodbye, grandfather of Shounen.

[neogohann]

[27-orange-lily]

Vegeta's Pride ✊🌈 (read L⇒R)

Bonus me at Pride with my Vegeta sign under the cut

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