Dragon Ball

...license. Exhuberance is nothing new to the genre. Like One Piece's Eiichiro Oda and Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto, Hiro Mashima grew up a fan of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. The planet cracking battles of Dragon Ball Z have been of...

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...and their works, such as Yudetamago's Kinnikuman, Buronson's Hokuto no Ken, Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, Yoshihiro Togashi's Yu Yu Hakusho, Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto and Takeshi Konomi's Prince of Tennis. His fans are usually...

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...an admiration of Akira Toriyama. Except, it is also worth noting, that in many cases they were hoping to achieve the spirit of early Dragon Ball, where something unexpected and wondrous was about to be sprung. Toriyama offered more in the way...

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...Masashi Kishimoto or ONE PIECE's Eiichiro Oda credit Toriyama as an influence, they are generally referring to the wonder of seeing DRAGON BALL's Goku act out the famous "Journey to the West" epic, fighting dinosaurs one chapter,...

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...a key influence to their work. Generally, they aren't referring to the super saiyan phase of Dragon Ball that focused on super heroes and alien villains blowing up planets and teleporting across the universe. Instead, the admiration is more...

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