Remembering Akira Toriyama - Dragonball Memories
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2024
- What is a memory about Dragonball or any other work that Toriyama contributed too that you cherish the most?
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When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!
And we will never forget Toriyama ❤
lmaao fuck your drama
"Legends live on, only man truly ends"
Got goosebumps while reading this comment
"til we meet again".
Well said, friend. This was one of the first quotes I thought of when I heard this news...
To people confused about their grief. The passing of someone like Toriyama is a unique kind of grief. 99% of us never met him and yet he changed our lives. I’ve already seen people saying don’t be sad Dragon ball will keep going. But it’s not the franchise itself that changes our lives it’s the vision of this one man. It will be hard for anyone outside the fandom to understand what it’s like but don’t be afraid to grieve, don’t think you shouldn’t because you didn’t know him. Dragon ball helped me have so many experiences and meet people and have hype community reactions but it was also there in moments with just me. Those are the moments coming to mind right now, quiet moments alone with this series. For me is was watching Goku go super Saiyan 3 before all my sport matches to hype me up. And it was playing kakarot after a bad breakup, small moments that no one will know about that’s what’s hitting me the hardest. This kind of grief also gives us a community to help each other out through this process, if you’re a new or old dragon ball fan we are all feeling the same thing and we can all be there for each other through this ❤️
Amazing comment. You said it perfectly
@@KCDeportes❤
Very well-spoken.
The realist comment I've read on this.
Well said
Kentaro Miura, Kazuki Takahashi... and now Akira Toriyama.
Makes me so sad that the people who imagined my greatest heroes are dying like every year.
Me too! Too many mangakas are dying!
Yeah even the guy for Sololeveling I forget.
we will never forget them
Akira Toriyama really changed the world and influenced millions of people with his works. We'll never forget him
We may have never met him, but at least we got to in the same timeframe and the same world as he did. That I am grateful for until I can meet him in Otherworld.
@@andrewpresley8676 then you best be good lest you end up in HIFL, Kami forbid 🙏
Billions in the long run
Rip toriyama. Everyone go rewatch the Saiyan saga from raditz to the Vegeta fight. It's perfect and truly goes to show why DBZ is so highly valued by everyone.
Akira is crying forever with Satan under us meanwhile I post funny videos
To truly cherish Toriyama and his work, everyone needs to give Dragon Ball from the start a chance and not just Z. See where it all started and truly appreciate the journey that Toriyama put so much effort, time and hours into
@@DanielKyreMcNuttyou really think anyones gonna watch your trash videos cus of your bait replies on every comment?
@@PotatoBoyI'm talking about the fights not story. The tournament is top tier stuff in og but the Saiyan saga was peak enemy design where each of them were unstoppable forces with raditz managing to get Goku to pass through the piccolo shot. Nappa taking out all these main characters and Vegeta being an unstoppable monster. It was probably the best Fighting
My first dragon Ball memory ever is watching dragon Ball Kai on like nicktoons at night it was somewhere in the Frieza saga and ever since I would re watch for nostalgia
As a Mexican who grew up watching Dragon Ball, this was devastating
Rest in peace, Toriyama-sensei, and thank you so much for everything
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You didn’t need to specify that you grew up watching Dragon Ball, you already said you were Mexican.
The man responsible for inspiring an entire generation, creating a main character of such purity and true symbol of good and just, the way he inspired people to be good and aspire to be stronger .... No one has done the same with any other anime as of this day and most likely never will..thank you Toriyama
A generation? More like generations..
The weight of Toriyama’s death has been hitting me in waves. He was so incredibly influential and was taken from us so suddenly, that I find myself continually drifting back to the “Denial” stage of grief.
I’ve got so many DBZ memories, and more that will probably be coming back to me over the next few days, but the main one that stands out to me is the memory of being totally obsessed with this one teaser promoting the arrival of Future Trunks into the anime. Ever since I saw that thing when I was a kid, Trunks has always been my favorite Dragon Ball character.
My thoughts exactly.
He is the reason why anime is famous
His influence on other Manga artist is the reason why anime is still relevant today
His legacy is not just Dragon Ball
It's inspiring other Manga artist
He is the reason I even love anime right now, thanks to watching Dragon Ball Z when I was very young. This man's influence knows no bounds.
R.I.P. Toriyama
Akira is crying forever with Satan under us meanwhile I post funny videos 😁😅
@@drooprtroopr6969 I make better videos tho
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Nah his legacy isn't just Dragonball it's many things not only did he create the biggest anime/manga series of all time but he also inspired many of the biggest mangaka in the world and created Dragon Quest which is the biggest Japanese videogame franchise of all time.
Toriyama is easily a top tier among goats. The fact he gave us super transformations as a concept will immortalize him in history in general
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nobody cares about that but now when he's dead it's going to be more prised. Sad but true.
@@malyrbt7093he was always praised you goof
People often call me weird for recalling the first day I gained consciousness.
But I have small flashbacks and fragments of memories from when I was very young. Watching early dragon ball with my dad and older brother is one of those memories, the Frieza, and the buu saga for some reason are also things I remember. All through my life I have affiliated with dragon ball in one way or another. Friends in elementary school, my uncle and family in another state I rarely see, college, and even in my work life the best friend I ever made connected with me through dragon ball.
Long live Toriyama sensei, you and your work will never be forgotten ❤
He was a man, a myth, a legend...he gave rise to some of the greatest artist and story tellers the world's ever seen. He was a father, an artist, and he will sorely be missed by so many generations of fans.
Rest well, Toriyama-sensei. You've been and will always be one of the greatest.
Without Toriyama, there wouldn't have been One Piece, Naruto & countless other great manga/anime. Without him, the world wouldn't have known such great stories, and most of all wouldn't have had such a great time. RIP Toriyama sensei, the GOAT!
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@@DanielKyreMcNutt that's not funny bro. Cut it out.
@@omerfarooq4642the bots will be everywhere as usual 😅 the less we acknowledge them the better. Well, that and the more we report them for spam.
All I can hear is "We Are Angels" when thinking about Toriyama. I'm 34, I remember getting into Dragon Ball when I was 10. The saiyan saga is what got me into the series.
My most important memory of Dragon Ball was in my teens; i was suffering quite badly with the bullying in school, abuse from a terrible step-father and a negligent mother (thankfully i was on there on rotational weekends) but my young life was so bad i was close to giving up and "throwing it away" but then I saw Dragon Ball Z for the first time; I watched Goku and Vegeta duel in the canyons, I kept watching to the Goku vs Frieza duel on Namek, Goku gave me the strength to keep living and to have the strength to overcome my troubles, i stand now as a 36yo man still being strengthened by Goku and Toriyama's work.
I'm an artist. I draw an Shounen inspired webcomic on my tablet. Last year I got a new tablet with a new pen to draw on. I ended up losing that pen pretty quickly so I had to use my older one. I also stopped drawing. I just didn't feel it. Yesterday, I randomly found that pen again a few hours before the announcement. When I heard it, I stopped what I was doing, and just started drawing. It's kinda weird and maybe stupid to say that it almost felt like Akira helped me find that pen again and with it, my desire to draw. Now I've continued to draw my comic. The timing was almost... holy. It's so strange because it felt like he was gonna be around forever. Now he's gone. Thank you Akira Toriyama and for what you've done for me and inspiring so many other artists as well. Rest in piece.
I used to live in Italy when i started elementary school.
Just moved. Missing my family Dragon Ball Z was my first love, the cure for loneliness, my role model. It basically shaped my childhood. I was a skinny asthmatic kid but Dragon Ball inspired me to become an athlete and I was a boxer,MMA fighter since my teenage years.
Thank you Toriyama. You will never die.
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He really influenced our lives in a good way, that's why the news of his passing hit us
Dragon Ball is the cornerstone of all anime, not just shonen manga. All the cliches, tropes, systems, etc that exists today was thought up by this great man. We haven't had such a revolution in fiction since Shakespeare. He made and set the standard for what manga should be.
Definetly, his impact can be felt the strongest in shonen but his influence is industry wide
His influence has reached beyond manga or anime. It is a cultural zeitgeist and has its roots in modern fiction
So like the LOTR for anime. I agree.
Actually delusional. This is a take that only someone who spends 99% of his time rewatching DB and the other 1% watching the most ultra-popular generic shounen could conceive of. Why are you talking about "not just shounen manga" when you've literally never even watched or read a non-battle-shounen series? You're a tourist to anime, just admit you're a Dragon Ball fan and nothing else.
@@sigiligus no, you are delusional for actually thinking anyone would take you seriously with that smug know-it-all attitude of yours. Get down your high horse, this isn't something to be taken too seriously about like the fate of the world depends on it.
I honestly can't say for sure which was my first, but growing up the first 3 anime I remember watching were Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z. I started with episode 1 of Z, and grew up along side it. I watched it with family and friends, drew fan art, the whole nine. Even still, the franchise he created is bringing me joy over 2 decades later. It's funny to think that this man, who I've never met, never had a conversation with, could influence my life so much. And now that he's gone, I feel a true sense of loss, both personal and artistic.
And now I'm crying.
Same here my friend.
I haven't even fully processed this yet, but I'm thankful for the memories Toriyama and his work left me with. Dragonball was my first anime like many others in America and I will never forget watching it on Toonami.
One really good memory I had was during Halloween. During my Kindergarten run, it was costume day at school and I didn’t have one, but I was surprisingly cool with it when my mother asked me about it. Then sometime after art class, my homeroom teacher gave me a Goku costume that my mother sent. So she dressed me up and some of the kids gathered around saying how cool I looked with it on. One of my friends even shouted “He’s a Super Saiyan!”.
I felt so strong and cool at the time.
I’ll be forever grateful for Toriyama creating such a beloved and iconic character…AND my mother for being so thoughtful.
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I’ve never been the biggest Dragon Ball fan but I can’t deny his impact. If Osamu Tezuka essentially invented Shonen manga with Astro Boy then Akira Toriyama reinvented it with Dragon Ball, a gag manga about a monkey boy and his friends looking for wishing balls inspired by Journey to the West. Toriyama’s death has the impact of Stan Lee’s death. R.I.P. to a literal legend. May King Yemma let you into Heaven with no issues.
My first memory is very similar to your’s:
It was the first day of summer after 6th grade, a Saturday. I went to turn on NickToons to watch morning cartoons. I was already annoyed because my sleep schedule wouldn’t allow me to sleep in that morning, and was even more annoyed that this “nerd show” Dragon Ball Z Kai was having a marathon. I watched it anyway because there was nothing else on. The episode that happened to be playing was the beginning of the first ever match between Goku and Vegeta, and it was a 3 hr long premiere of the entire fight. I was hooked instantly, and my life forever changed as I was introduced to my favorite show of all time.
Rest in Peace Toriyama, thank you for changing all of our lives ❤
Akira Toriyama, you and your work will be remembered for years to come. Also, thank you for the childhood memories of DBZ and may you rest and peace.❤
I’ve never cried for celebrities death before but this one hurt my soul to the core. This man changed so many lives and I can’t believe this. Life is unfair at times, RIP GOAT UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!!!
Celebrities are temporary, Mangaka are forever.
What makes Mangakas so special is that they weave stories that touch our hearts. Rest in Peace Sir Toriyama.
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This one and Kobe were the only 2 to get me.
@@kamenstrell1884 The Kobe one still doesn’t feel real man. He was waayyy too young
What if the real Dragon Balls were the memories and friends we made along the way?
His legacy will live forever. Rip, the goat. Akira Toriyama 😢🕊️
Oda going upto his god and one of the first thing he says being “hey I loved the way you drew that girls armpit” is why he is my favourite Mangaka
I straight up broke down last night.
I got into Dragonball and anime at around 8 or 9 and never looked back. It changed how what I watched and read. It changed how I conducted myself. It gave me a new outlet to make friends with. But the biggest impact it had on me was art.
I got into drawing dragonball Z after the first episode I watched. I got how to draws, sticker books, my brother would print me images at his high school. I shaped my entire art style to anime because of Akira Toriyama and I got good at it.
There's so much I could thank that man for and I am positive I'm not alone in that.
Truly lost a legend who's impact is felt globally and will forever be felt.
Dragonball isn't my favorite anime of all time but it's still my favorite as far as core memories and nostalgia goes. Nothing will top the first time Goku first turned super saiyan or when Gohan hit SSJ2. These moments are staples in my literal childhood. I got off the bus from school on Thursday's to go watch Toonami. Watching Trunks go SSJ1 and slice Frieza in half like he was nothing ABSOLUTELY blew my mind back then. A new saiyan we know nothing about AND he can go super saiyan like Goku?! I can't wait to find out! Man..crazy times. People always say "RIP legend" when someone dies but Akira Toriyama is a LITERAL legend and literally changed the world with his media. Without him, One Piece and Naruto and many other mangas/animes would not even exist to this day. End of an era. You will be missed, but your work will live on forever. Rest In Peace, Akira Toriyama.
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Kinda surreal man. The guy truly changed a generation
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Heh.. that interview with Oda and Toriyama sounds so wholesome!….
My first memory with DBZ was with the Ocean dub! I was really young and my brother would catch episodes of the saiyan saga before school. It wasn’t until it started airing on Cartoon Network where I fell in love with it. I’ll never forget how hype my brother and I were to see Goku turn super saiyan for the first time. I can never forget it.
We were also big fans of JRPG’s, and we absolutely lost it when they rereleased Chrono Trigger for PlayStation. It was impossible to find for SNES. It also had anime cut scenes, and we absolutely adored them.
Then, there was Dragon Quest 8, and it’s clean art style captivated me as a 13-year-old. It’s still one of my all time favorite turn based RPG’s…
It’s safe to say that Toriyama has left his fingerprints on just about everything I love today. We wouldn’t have half the franchises we have today without him. He’s truly one of the lynchpins in anime, manga, and video game as we know it today. Rest in piece Toriyama Sensei. Your imagination and creative outlook will never be forgotten. ❤️
I cannot say whether this was the first anime I have ever watched and in fact I am sure it is not, but it was certainly one of my most significant memories. It was something I recalled often watching on my days off on nights after school. It was something that just seemed to be a constant in my life even after I thought they had reached the end of it and so I was always happy to see it continue. It seems strange, the universe of Dragon Ball and all of its media (games, movies, spinoffs and others) seem so large that it is hard to believe that one person created it. But somehow, he did, and he is no longer with us. Others have said it better than I can, in the words of Dr. Hiriluk a man only dies when he is forgotten. Toriyama has joined the ranks of the great artists, musicians, and other creators of great works whose aforementioned works will ultimately outlive them and often grow even beyond what their creators imagined at the time they thought them up. We the fans who have grown up with his works, the manga artists he has inspired in one way or another, and so many others are as much his legacy as the work itself. Today Japan has lost one of its national treasures, but through our love of his work and by passing on what he created to others in one way or another, we will make him as immortal as any person can truly be. May he live on through all of us who love his work, who were inspired somehow through it, and may all of our lives be better for having lived through the time when he was alive. That is what I have to say.
You know, you continually think of yourself as having nothing to contribute to conversations with others, but when it really counts, you truly do know how to express things in the way that matters my friend. It is true, even without the dragon balls that he created, even without becoming a deity, Toriyama has achieved through his work the kind of immortality that so many people seek in both reality and fiction and yet, so few ever truly gain. It is not the literal form of immortality as some people may wish, but perhaps it is the truest form of immortality any of us can ever hope to achieve. His work will continue to inspire others, the fans, the manga writers, those who have had the pleasure of working with him, we will be as much a part of his legacy as the work itself by keeping it and him alive in our hearts. Dragon Ball was not the first or the most influential for any me either or for any of our associates, but I know that we all loved it and are thankful for the fact that it has existed. So do me a favor my friend, don't ever say that you have nothing to contribute. If you are ever in doubt, then think back to this very moment and what you felt when you wrote this comment. That will remind you that you are as much a pioneer of imagination as the rest of us for you love imagination just as much as we do.
A beautiful statement both from James and from the Emperor of Inception. Yes, it is truly a tragic day when someone like Toriyama passes away, but it seems that he lived a fulfilling life and has been rewarded for it with all the love from the fans, the regards I imagine he has gotten from those he has inspired. Janes has described this perfectly and Emperor of Inception has provided excellent support in this regard. I truly do wonder if Toriyama ever had the slightest idea how big Dragon Ball would become when he started it.
It is often such with individuals such as Akira Toriyama, their works ultimately grow beyond what they had originally planned and so they end up leaving a tremendous legacy behind. Yet that is why there is such a void left behind when they die. Truly a situation of many mixed feelings with sadness being prevalent.
@@supremevampirekingofimagin3130 So very true. Imagination has an interesting habit of growing itself far beyond what its initial shape may be.
@@lordofcreativity9637 Thank you very much. I suppose that living a full and fulfilling life where we look back on the work we have done and think to ourselves that somehow, we have made a positive impact on others around us is something that we all desire. In the end, some of us do this in grand measures while others end up doing so in smaller more subtle but no less important fashions. It is possible that he never imagined how things would grow to this point, but I am sure that he must have been happy when he saw how many people took inspiration from it.
I remember being 3-5 years old in my grandparents house watching DBZ and saint Seiya in Mexico on trips as my earliest memories as a kid. Then growing up watching snippets of episodes through Toonami and loving it, doing the spiky hair drawing and kamehameha’s when ever throwing a pillow at friends sleepovers. Then growing and watching the whole series with the dub, with the English soundtrack, without any guides as to what fillers were, loving and crying at every bit of it. Crying when Gohan met those run away kids, crying when Frieza killed Krillin, crying when Cell killed 16, crying when future Gohan died, crying when Vegeta died, crying when Hercule and Buu lived together and had a puppy. But yesterday I didn’t cry but just appreciate everything Toriyama did and left from DB, Dr.Slump, to the designs in the recent dragon quest 11. Togashi must be taking it real hard too.
Rip the goat Akira Toriyama , the way he inspired some of our favourite manga artists and changed the world of anime for the better. He will be missed 🪦Akira Toriyama.
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The first time I watched dragon ball I was just getting into anime. It was the hottest summer yet and our ac didn’t work so I sat in the living room, pirating episodes since we didn’t have streaming services. What a legend.
I had a bunch of Dragon Ball DVDs, I've played a LOT of Dragon Ball games and the amount of Dragon Ball AMVs I've seen in my life is immeasurable and those introduced me to Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Skillet, Linkin Park, and Eminem. Dragon Ball LITERALLY introduced me to anime. It really hurts that Toriyama's gone now. Rest In Peace Toriyama.
R.I.P
Akira Toriyama
Still remembering the first time i heard the arabic dub song, still a banger to this day
رسمت الحرووف بعمق الحجر
رايت الحقيقة خلف البصر
رسمت الحرووف بعمق الحجر
انرت الطريق وجدت اليقين
رفعت الجباه و الهمم
ازلت الغبار عن وجه الحنين
ايقظت الرؤى و الـذمم
انرت الطريق وجدت اليقين
رفعت الجباه و الهمم
ازلت الغبار عن وجه الحنين
ايقظــت الرؤى و الذمم
دراغون بول دراجون بول
دراجون بول دراجون بول
قلنا التحدي قلت الامل
قلنا الشجاعة قلت العمل
قلنا التحدي قلت الامل
قلنا الشجاعة قلت العمل
انرت الطريق وجدت اليقين
رفعت الجباه و الهمم
ازلت الغبار عن وجه الحنين
ايقظـت الرؤى و الــذمم
انرت الطريق وجدت اليقين
رفعت الجباه و الهمم
ازلت الغبار عن وجه الحنين
ايقظــت الرؤى و الــذمم
دراجون بول دراجون بول دراجون بول
WOMP WOMP. HES GONE BECAUSE I HAVE BETTER CONTENT 🎉
@@XDfurry69 you disrespectful good for nothing bot how can someone even say this shit right after a great man who stood on top of his industry for 30 years has passed away either pay respect or fuck off you online addicted attention whore
R.I.P. Akira Toriyama you will be missed
IM FROM YEMEN I LOVED THE ARABIC THEME😊
I didn't realize what an impact Akira Toriyama had on my life until I just started crying out of nowhere when I heard about his death. I've had family members die and their death didn't even affect me this much. This guy changed my life!!! I'm still crying typing this... 😭😭😭
Chrono Trigger is still one of the best jrpgs of all time. it still holds up too. I didn't play it until my early 20's and it had been out for a long time and it was still amazing. I highly suggest playing it at some point.
I have no idea why, but my parents got me audio cassettes of dragonball when I was like 6 years old. Around that time I started watching the anime on tv with my dad. We managed to watch almost every episode and loved it.
In elementary school I made my first friends off of talking about dragonball z and doing kamehamehas. Not even one piece OSTs hit so hard like the dragonball z ones do for me. There’s so many more stories. Toriyama will never be forgotten. Thanks for the video tekking!
I don't even particularly care for Dragonball itself, yet my life has still been touched by all the stories it influenced. Toriyama, say what you will about the actual writing of his manga, changed the world more than most politicians and his death is an immense loss to the creative field as a whole. Rest in peace, Mr. Toriyama, the greatest manga writer in history.
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Ppl who say db doesn't have good writing are the typa ppl who need everything to be thrown in their face to understand em anyways so their opinions don't matter
@@6Angello1
Someone here in the comments called Toriyama’s writing “derivative” and terrible
It hurts how much I lost yesterday, not only was Akira Toriyama announcement damning, but I also had to put down my 14 year old dog 💔
brutal, sorry for your loss!
Man, I remember my first time catching dragon ball on tv. I wasn’t even focused on the tv, and it caught my eye. Since then, I have always been into anime, manga, and manwha. It was my gateway. And every now and then, I just go watch certain episodes of the franchise,from the original episodes, to even early tournament arc days.
Dragon ball literally shaped my life. It’s the reason why I like the things I like, and even dealt with stressful time bc I could just watch dragon ball and just forget about everything else.
One piece is my favorite manga, but nothing can ever replace Dragon Ball.
May Akira Toriyama’s soul rest in paradise. He will never be forgotten!
This man will never be forgotten, we love you Toriyama. Rest in piece.
Still doesn’t feel real. I still remember cosplaying as Super Saiyan Goku for my kid birthday party, buying a ton of DBZ figurines and other merch, playing Tenkaichi on my PSP, watching the show with my family, all sorts of things. Rest in peace Akira Toriyama and thank you for pioneering my love of anime
I remember getting off the school bus and riding my bike to my best friend's house to watch DBZ daily.. we recorded episodes on VCR tapes ... REST IN PEACE Akira Toriyama!!!
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Thanks for sharing your memories. I know I have many that I cherish with Toriyama’s work.
When does a man truly die?
When he is forgotten.
My first DB experience was when my uncle bought me a VHS tape of SSJ4 Gogeta vs. Omega Shenron when i was around ... 6-7 years old. Ever since then, I got hooked. Then I went on RUclips and searched up Dragon Ball episode 1 and that's when I really started. What's cool was that RUclips, back in 2007-2008, wasn't very strict with copyright and this one RUclips channel had EVERY single episode of Dragon Ball - DBZ and I binged through it all, and then rewatched it.. and then rewatched it.. and then again and again. My dad even got me the DBZ Funimation Orange Box sets too.
Rest in Power to the legendary Akira Toriyama.
This man was the GOAT and there will be no one else like him.
RIP Toriyama you will be missed.
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Some people consider Toriyama to be the greatest Mangaka of all time. Whether or not he is, he's definitely my favorite.
I watched Dragonball on TV along with my whole family as early I can remember. I've come to love other manga just as much since, but I owe it all to Toriyama-Sensei. Dragonball is truly special to me...
This is crazy news. Thanks for lending your voice, Matt...
Even if he isn't the greatest, he is definitely the most influential. And for that I am truly grateful to Toriyama. Not only did he make me an anime fan, as my gateway anime was DBZ, but he also inspired some of all time favorite anime (Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, HxH, YYH).
I don’t agree that he’s the greatest, but I can understand the argument. His writing was quite frankly mediocre at best and extremely derivative. But his creativity as an artist and paneller was incredible. His influence on other series is right up there with guys like Araki and Buronson. Marvellous character designs and amazingly detailed art before he started slacking off. He also had a knack for somehow turning laziness, miserliness, and criticism into iconic manga tropes.
@@sigiligus It's not something I would argue either, but then again, I don't care to. His titles are meaningless to me, I only care about what he did, and I'm greatful for it...
I think the first time I saw dragon ball was when I was 7 or 8 and I turned on the TV and saw the scene where Cell drinks the guy in front of Piccolo. I was super scared but couldn't stop watching. Toriyama's work, especially the cell saga, has served as a major inspiration for a book I've been working on and I'm extremely thankful.
I remember going to Publix, customer service used to sell db vhs tapes, one of the few times my mom would let me get something I asked for it was awesome, those box sets had the art of that arc. Mine was the trunks arc, he was my favorite since then. Seeing the toonami trunks commercial always brings back memories of all the ads before them of db merch. Beautiful time
I was just talking to my brother yesterday morning about Dragonball. He was remembering running from the bus stop to be home by the time it started.
Didn’t even know he’d died. It’s just something that worked it’s way into the conversation.
Akira Toriyama impacted a lot of childhoods.
The Father-Son Kamehameha against Cell. I had to have been in like middle school or probably younger, but I remember being so touched by how even in death, Goku was ALWAYS with Gohan. Goku's presence and guidance (even though people have said that he was absent in moments) really served as a foundation of support for Gohan. That moment was a huge moment of development for Gohan too. I hope one day to be a source of support like that for my children.
Seeing how many people appreciated Toriyama’s work and we all shared similar childhoods made my eyes water up. Its honestly sad seeing a Legend like Toriyama go.
He was probably one of my most favorite Mangakas ever. Almost everyone from latin america grew up with this anime, and every kid at one point or another would mimic Goku.
He was one of my childhoods biggest and greatest memories. Pretty sure most dbz fans and shonen fans in general can relate to this extent
Seeing oda look up to him is also heartwarming yet heartbreaking. Mainly since they were homies.
Brothers and sisters, we lost a legend but we gained an angel up in heaven. Lets fights strong like all his MCs did and remember him with joy.
My favorite moment is Goku kaio ken Kamehameha vs Vegeta Galic Gun
The voice acting, the music, the tension, the action, it blew me away as a kid and my first introduction into anime aside from Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.
RIP Akira Toriyama, thank you for all your hard work
Heaven gained a legend today, rest in power Toriyama-sensei ❤️
The Portuguese Dub of DBZ was quite the cultural phenomenon here in Portugal.
And in many regards you could say that whenever a new episode came out the country stopped to watch it.
R.I.P. Akira Toriyama.
Thanks for such a wonderful story.
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Bons tempos! Would give everything to experience dragon ball as a kid again
As memorias mano...
Early 2000, in Brazil🇧🇷 11:00 AM we run from school back to home to watch Dragon Ball Z in TV 📺.
You guys didn't get the Brazilian dub in Portugal?
Can't open up anything right now without seeing anyone talking about this 😢😢 the man deserves all the love and attention may the dragon ball name live on forever ❤❤ remember going to video store and collecting the tapes whenever we had a little spending money going on the computer going to there website and reading up on the newest game for whatever consoles we had the website saved on our computer❤❤😊
I hope Toriyama left knowing how much he changed the world with DBZ. The amount of times as a child I would rewatch the DBZ movies is insane. Toonami era DBZ was the best experience a child could ask for. Thanks Toriyama for introducing Manga/Anime to World like you did💯
When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten. And Akira Toriyama will NEVER be forgotten
Your right, he will be forever be in our hearts
Akira is crying forever with Satan under us meanwhile I post funny videos 🤣🤣😂😂
Akira is crying forever with Satan under us meanwhile I post funny videos
Akira is crying forever with Satan under us meanwhile I post funny videos HAHA😁😁
RUclips really needs to do something about these bots
Thanks Tekking. Your channel is always a light during dark times like this. We needed a day to just remember how much Dragon Ball influenced everyone, everywhere. It's hard to emphasize how global DB was. Thank you Toriyama.
My first dragon ball memory was when I was a kid. 2002 born but in India so Pokemon and DBZ was around. It was Radditz vs Goku and I couldn't believe my eyes. Toriyama you changed my life. Thank you
Was lucky enough to catch the first initial run of Z in the west..being a young kid in the 90s seeing that show, was like watching devinci paint masterpieces. It just completley blew away all the other cartoons that the west had during that time. I remember the buildup of SSJ Goku. The reveal and the reveal of trunks..the 2nd!! Me and my friends were obsessed. Its very sad to see him pass..but he lives on in his many works. I will be buying Sandland out of respect to one of if not the greatest person of the medium.
I'm a very young guy so I only got into dragon ball in 2010 or 2011 when it was on my tv. I used to watch it everyday with my parent and my sister. Goku has been my inspiration to keep going and live my life to the fullest while trying to get better in what I love doing and seeing the news really hit me hard. Akira gave us all the gift in form of db, gt, dbz and dbs. I loved every second watching them all and honestly I'm just happy knowing most of us can agree that he gave us inspiration and a beautiful childhood. Bless you all and I hope you all live a good life.
1997 was my first time seeing Dragon Ball Z1!
I’ve had a really hard childhood. Abusive parents you know. And one of my only good memories from my childhood has been coming home from school and turn on the tv and forget everything bad happening around me. Dbz was my escape. Goku was my hero. Watching goku, gohan vegeta and all of them grow as characters helped me become the man I am today. Dragonball taught me so many lessons no one taught me. Goku was like a father figure. And I can’t put into words how devastated I was reading that toriyama sensei has passed. Rest in peace toriyama ❤
_Chrono Trigger_ (which may have shared Toriyama's art style) was my way of escaping a similar situation with my ex-stepdad. May the Creator give you peace...
I got into DragonBall by reading a random volume of the Namek Saga at Walmart. Then went home to start watching the original Dragon Ball series with Kid Goku. Thats what got me into Role-playing writing. Met my current D&D friends while doing so. Thanks for all that you've done, Sir Toriyama-san
My core memory with Dragon Ball is simply how back in like 2010, me and my big brother every week I believe on Wednesdays on Nicktoons, we’d watch the newest episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender followed by Dragon Ball Z. It’s a soft spot for me.
I didn’t even realize how as of recent I’ve been finding myself reminiscing all of Dragon Ball, even having dreams about it, even just the night prior to the news 😂🥲.
Rest in Peace Akira Toriyama, you truly shaped all of our childhoods and now adulthoods.
Move well. Study well. Play well. Eat well. Rest well.
You will be missed infinity.
Those weekly reviews of the TOP arc with you also Tekking back in the days were some good times.
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My earliest Dragon ball memory was me when i was 4 sitting on my dads lap watching dragon ball z watching the fight between Goku and vegeta in the saiyan saga and after that it became a normal routine of me and my father watching dragon ball z on Saturday mornings. Tbh i don't think I would be the person i am today without Dragon ball. Rest in peace Akira Toriyama thank you.
I love how Tekkings voice at first is saddenend but as he starts talking about Dragonball and his memories he starts getting happier and happier. This is exactly the memento Toryama leaves behind for the world
I cannot tell you how far and how much dragon ball influence reach.
My parents in Vietnam in 80s and 90s knows about dragon ball and goku.
Thank you so much akira toriyama sensei for making Dragon ball and inspiring me to work out and train like goku did.
First memory is being up super late watching toonami around 4 or 5. I watched krillin die to frieza ok namek. My face was so close to the tv and I was crying.
Thanks Tekking for taking the time to pay respects to this titan that painted our childhoods with wonder and inspired the next generations to come.
May his soul rest in peace...
My first Dragonball memory was back in 98. I was six years old. I used to watch a show called Monkey Magic which was about a monkey named Son Wukong. It didn't air very long but I remember Dragonball was aired in it's place one day, and I remember thinking, "hey, what happened to the other show?". As I watched it, it just felt similar, like it was the same show, but a different timeline. The show itself was the very first time I was introduced to an overarching story that wasn't just a new plot each episode. I still vividly remember Buu killing Babadi. It scared the shit out of me and it was the censored version. I did have a vhs of the episodes where vegeta goes super saiyen and kills android 19. I watched it over and over and over again, and I was eating pizza hut with the cinnimon sticks and frosting. Chrono Trigger was a game I also first experienced in 1998 on the snes. Still to this day the most important game of my entire life. The ost alone has lived rent free in my head for 26 years
DragonBall was my first introduction to anime even tho i didn't and still like it that much.I remember myself as a kid watching it on TV while i was waiting for my fav cartoons and laughing on some comedy moments which were vast in DragonBall. RIP Akira Toriyama 😔☹
Dragon ball is the reason I watch anime. Thank you so much Toriyama.
Naruto was the first anime I watched knowing the difference between eastern and western animation, so when I was watching DBZ as a kid I had no idea that the “new” episodes I was waiting for each week were not new at all.
One of my cousins did though, and when he found out I was into DragonballZ he made sure to get me some merch for my next birthday gift. Toonami was still in the arc I’m choosing to call “the great sayaiman saga”, so when I opened that cousin’s gift and saw what I think was a 2 foot tall Super Majin Buu, I was confused about how this clearly not DBZ character was in official DBZ marked packaging.
As a young kid at the time I thought it was a really crappy toy. The only parts of it you could move were the arms which only rotated windmill style, and while the whole thing was hollow the hands were a different, detachable kind of hollow. They weren’t even replaceable with some other hands to come along with it. But I held onto that thing for years because it was a heartfelt gift and when I did see Super Buu I thought my cousin had some secret inside source which made it seem so much cooler.
Now, I’m really regretting that I eventually got rid of it.
The new broke, like, 10 minutes after I got back from work last night and my friend told me on discord. I was in disbelief at first. I had stopped watching Dragon Ball when Super started and I clown on the series _a lot_ lmao But I was kinda into the idea of Daima, I’m looking forward to Dragon Ball Sparking Zero. I saw an interview last week I think where Toriyama was talking about how excited he was to be working on some new projects and I think that’s what really made me cry last night. Yeah, I never knew the man, but he has been a part of my life since I was like 5. And I was more saddened by the fact that he was so happy and excited to work on what he loves, but he can’t do that anymore
I do actually remember my first memory of Dragon Ball Z. I was like five and I just came back from kindergarten. I would sit at the living room table with my dad and do my “homework” which was probably something like a coloring sheet, essentially lol I was watching Cartoon Network and this was when Toonami ran in the afternoons for a while. It might have been like a marathon or just the point where they were doing a bunch of reruns. But it was when Raditz had just touched down, so basically the beginning. And I was hooked. I was by myself most of the day. My dad would be doing stuff around the house and I had an older sister, but she was in third grade so she was at school all day where I was just in the morning class of kindergarten. So I’d watch Dragon Ball Z all day with my dad sometimes and would just run around the living room pretending to power up and stuff lmao My sister was the more girly between us and I’d watch Sailor Moon with her, but when I wanted to play fight and pretend to be a saiyan, I’d go across the street and play with my male cousin who also got into Dragon Ball eventually
And listening to Tekking, I do actually remember going to the store and getting one of the VHS tapes with the Androids and neither me or my dad knew who the hell they were, but I saw it was DBZ and I really wanted it so I got it. Didn’t know at the time that the tapes were so far ahead 😂
It feels like forever ago now but last night when I was taking in the news, it seemed like it was that long ago. Akira has been there in some way for a long time of my life and influenced it so much. And I’ll always appreciate him for that
My first Dragon Ball memory is my first conscious memory at all. I was born in 1990, and I remember being about 3 years old and looking at the Goku vs Vegeta (saiyajin saga) comic, and knowing that I'd been seeing-reading that show since before I had the use of reason. I just knew that was there before I could reason it, and I'd always loved it, like Vegeta in the armor destroyed by Goku and the others, looked the most cool thing to me. So yes, that's the first thing I can remember from before I was able to reason, and that meant Dragon Ball would be a big pillar in my childhood. Indeed it was.
From then on I watched the series religiously, it would go from db to end of dbz and then restart, it was the same cycle again and again, and I wouldn't want to miss an episode even if I had seen it so many times. SSJ3 with my cousin was also a hype moment. I cannot list all the moments because the list wouldn't end. I remember one of those end of Z times when I said, ok, next day is restart time. First episode of DB coming again baby. At that point I think I'd seen the whole series like 3 or 4 times already. So there I was the next day, expecting the db intro with good old young Goku messing around in the mountains, and out of nowhere GT opening pops up. I knew GT existed because my cousin had shown me something in a magazine, but for me it was like a concept of something far away, something we wouldn't get. The hype I felt at that moment, the happiness, the excitement for a new db adventure with unknown places, cool designs and power ups, was out of this world.
My first Dragonball memory was a advertisement for something Broly related in the 2000s. I thought he looked ridiculously buff.
11 years ago, when I was 15, one night I was up late, and youtube videos like nigahiga's Dragonball skit got me interested in the series, so I looked on RUclips... And watched the two hour long Govan versus Cell fight.
It got me into anime.
It changed my perspective of media.
Dragonball as a franchise has irrevocably changed my life, and I can never forget it now.
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Playing Raging 2 with my brother and ya know "raging". Me and my bro feel holes in our chests.
Thank you thank you thank you Toriyama Sensei.
First dragon ball memory was when I went to Colombia and was watching the buu saga before I turned 7.
Too many memories, I’ve collected so much figures dvds and more throughout time. Akira Toriyama true Legend 🐉❤️🔥🫡
My first anime franchise ever was Dragon ball so this passing really hits a little different as this was the anime I watched before I really watched any anime like I do now. My favorite series now is One Piece, but I will always have a soft spot for Dragon Ball and I will still watch and talk about it with friends to this day so Rest in Peace Toriyama and thank you for everything.
Dragonballz, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh were what really got me into anime as a kid. Between the anime and the video games, I could go on for hours over memories and specific things I loved about Dragonball. Such an iconic, classic series. Huge part of my life. Childhood and adulthood.
RIP alot of us speak to one another because of dragonball. Dragonball was one of the main things that made nerd culture more acceptable to the world. Hood dudes and blerds found common ground thanks to your creation. From a black man that grew up in Florida thank you.
I remember coming home from practice to rush and watch dragon ball. It was the most important part of my childhood. It made me friends, gave me life lessons, it helped shape who I was.
Thank you for sharing this, Tekking.
Hearing your DB stories and the Oda anecdotes was really helpful.
Really puts his legacy into perspective and reminds us of how much joy he brought to the world.
Arigato, Toriyama-sensei.
Rest In Peace.
One of my earliest memories of dragonball that isn't deleted already but kinda defragmented
is probably sitting on the floor in the early 2000s infront of a small CRT TV at a cousins house watching an inbetween
trailer on cartoon network or something about "Dragonball Uncut" and how angsty and uncensored it was.
I remember being really young when I first watched the ERB Goku vs Superman rap battle, then after that in the recommended section I saw the Goku vs Superman Death Battle and I had to watch it to see what all the fuss was about. After that, I found episode 1 uploaded to RUclips (I think it had Spanish subtitles but an English dub?) and got hooked on the whimsical story, I watched Dragon Ball and DBZ for the rest of the year until there was nothing left.
Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z introduced me to anime.
man I remember growing up as a kid in the Netherlands (1990s-onwards), every week me and my brother would sit in front of the TV watching dragonball z, looking back it was probably the closest thing we had to something of a religieus experience, because we had a tough time growing up and watching that show taught us so much, it showed us courage, the ability to grow, hard work, discipline, fighting against evil but also showing compassion and the cruelty of violence and how important control is over just brute force.
every kid wanted to be goku or vegita, some thought Piccolo was just the coolest and a lot of kids saw themselves as Gohan trying to survive as a kid.
Dragonball z is the only show that has always, always had a special place in my heart ever since I was a kid and when the broly movie came out, I was excited just like I was when I was a kid.
while you eventually start to look a bit more critical at some of the flaws in the show and moved on to different things, that first show of Dragonball Z made me fall in love with anime, perhaps people don't remember but back in the 90s, ''cartoons'' were seen as something for kids and not anything real or important and most western cartoons were indeed made for kids, Dragonball Z even in the censored version was more hardcore then most shows on the air for kids or even for many adult action movies! and it showed a generation of kids the potential of animation, all those kids growing up have seen the love and respect others saw in his work and many of them are now working in the industry to set the medium to new hights, manga artists inspired around the world, his work has echo's in so many places around the world.
and it's all thanks to Akira Toriyama, he made it happen, he set a new standard, it was a millestone, sure you had other shows like Pokemon or more adult manga/anime like Berserk but in terms of total reach, impact and long term effects on the industry and people as a whole will echo for many years to come, if not decades.
we will all miss him but take comfort in that his work will live on in the hearts and minds of millions for decades.
RIP Akira Toriyama
My cousins got me into Dragon ball with Z, GT, and Budokai 3. Literally made my childhood and Ill never forget. I have a 4-Star tattooed on my shoulder. Cell Saga def my favorite. This man put Anime and Manga on the map and my life wouldnt be what it is today with it him. Rest in Peace. His influence will never die
This is a very hard reality to accept. Dragon Ball was such a big part of my life, especially my early to late teen years. So much of my disposition and perspective comes from this series. My relationship with exercise, self improvement, the value of friendships and camaraderie, what it means to be brave and selfless. It truly cannot be expressed how much I have grown in my experience with this series. Truly an incredible inspiring person. The world is so much better having had you in it, may your work continue to inspire and impact the world as it has while you were still with us. Rest in peace, power, and prosperity Toriyama. May we meet again in the other world.
You know someone is truly positively influential when pretty much the whole world grieves and comes out of the woodworks to say how Toriyama has been a part of their lives.
I think like you mentioned, any 90's kid growing up in the States (maybe even other parts of the world too honestly) would have grown up with seeing DBZ and Dragonball or have heard of it in some way if they didn't have cable. I remember enjoying how funny the show made the charge up of going super saiyan be, but the pay off was always so epic, like how can you not amaze a kid. I think as a series Dragonball has always been there up until I stopped watching after GT/school got in the way/we didn't have cable anymore/the internet was slowly becoming a thing and I was invested in manga....Even though I didn't really get into the newer innerations of Dragonball, I kinda wish I went to watch Broly or some of the other movies that got aired in theaters. ;a;
Like Oda said, hopefully Haven is like how he imagined it.
I used to watch the anime as a kid and my dad got me the manga to read at home. I don't remember which particular part happened first but as a teenager I watched the amvs in the library and rented out the other books. Toriyama's works was definitely an inspiration to me growing up. He will be missed dearly
Thanks for the video.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Toriyama 🙏
My most fond memory of Dragon Ball is sitting on the couch with my dad and watching the Cell Games. His work is a constant reminder of the better times in my life and the people I miss. I loved this man, and I'll miss him, God I'll miss him.
I remember going to the local library and reading the Manga during the Cell-Buu era.
Also remember going to the local convenient store and renting the VHS,
Seeing a new issue or tape was so exciting, and thinking back the people who supplied the materials must have really cared too.
One of the greatest, Akira Toriyama.
I grew up in the 90's watching DBZ on Toonami and loving it. The characters feel like old friends. DBZ might not be my favorite Anime or Shonen but it was the anime that got me into anime and loving both it and manga. Akira Toriyama will always be loved, treasured, respected, and inspire everyone who was touched by his work. May he rest in peace and he will truly be missed.
The first time I remember watching dragon ball was vegeta blowing up android 19. I was piccolo for Halloween when I was like 8 or so. And I used to watch the vhs tapes of the buu saga with my neighbors
Toriyama's legacy is immortal, I have so many moments recorded so vividly in my memory that I could be talking about them for hours.