Akira Toriyama Cause of Death—
Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer known for creating the hugely successful manga series “Dr. Slump” and “Dragon Ball.”
The latter is one of the best-selling manga series in history, and spawned a media franchise containing numerous anime adaptations, films, and video games.
Toriyama had served as a character designer for many other video games, including the “Dragon Quest” series, “Chrono Trigger,” and “Blue Dragon.”
Akira Toriyama Cause of Death
Akira Toriyama died on 1 March from an acute subdural haematoma. The news was confirmed by Bird Studio, the manga company that Toriyama founded in 1983.
“It’s our deep regret that he still had several works in the middle of creation with great enthusiasm,” the studio wrote in a statement. “Also, he would have many more things to achieve.”
The studio remembered his “unique world of creation”.
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“He has left many manga titles and works of art to this world,” the statement read. “Thanks to the support of so many people around the world, he has been able to continue his creative activities for over 45 years.”
Who was Akira Toriyama?
Born on April 5, 1955, in Kiyosu City, Aichi prefecture, Toriyama began drawing manga at the age of 23.
He made his debut as a cartoonist in 1978 by submitting a short story to manga fans’ magazine Weekly Shonen Jump.
His “Dragon Ball” series went on to be featured in the same magazine in 1984 and was front and center of a creative career that spanned more than four decades.
The franchise is based on classic Chinese novel Journey to the West and has since been adapted into into anime and the 2009 Hollywood action movie “Dragon Ball Evolution.”
As Son Goku sets off for his quest in search of the seven dragon balls, he fights off villains along the way and protects the Earth. As he ages, the storyline shifts to his descendants and friends.
The dragon balls, when collected, can summon Shen Long, a divine dragon that can grant any wish. Son Goku often ended up spending the wishes on his friends or restoring a heavily destructed Earth in the series centered on courage, friendship and kinship.
Prominent Japanese author and game designer Yuji Horii, a longtime friend of Toriyama, said they worked on the popular game Dragon Quest together.
“I can’t believe he’s gone,” he wrote on social media platform X.
Eiichiro Oda, creator of manga series “One Piece,” said the thought of never seeing his friend Toriyama again “fills me with sadness.”
Toriyama “took the baton from the era when reading manga would make you stupid, and created an era where both adults and children read and enjoy manga. He showed us the dream that manga can do things like this and that we can go to the world,” Oda said on the Shonen Jump website.
Many fans also paid tribute to the manga heavyweight online.
“Dragon Ball was my textbook for life. It taught me that I could overcome any hardship if I worked on it cheerfully and with enjoyment,” one fan wrote on X.
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