Akira Toriyama
aka:
鳥山 明
Moby ID: 62994
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Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was born in the outskirts of Nagoya, Japan. In 1974 he entered high school to study art specializing in publicity. In 1977 he decided to abandon this to enroll in cartoon drawing.
Some time afterwards, he entered Shueisha, the biggest manga publisher in Japan, as a mangaka or cartoonist, where he started drawing as a professional. It was here he published his first work as a professional. In December 1978, he published his first manga, Wonder Island in the popular Shonen Weekly Jump.
Akira Toriyama is most known for designing the popular manga series Dragon Ball. In the world of video games, his most important work is character design for the famous RPG series Dragon Quest.
Credited on 82 games
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| Dragon Quest Builders (2024, Windows) | Character Designer |
| Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (2023, Nintendo Switch) | Character Designer |
| Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (2023, PlayStation 5) | Original Story |
| Dragon Quest Treasures (2022, Nintendo Switch) | Character Designer |
| Dragon Ball: The Breakers (2022, PlayStation 4) | Based on Story Created By |
| Dragon Quest of the Stars (2020, iPhone) | Character Director |
| Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (2019, Nintendo Switch) | Character Designer |
| Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission (2019, Windows) | Original Story |
| Jump Force (2019, PlayStation 4) | Dragon Ball |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Nintendo Switch) | DLC Dragon Quest Character Design (C) Bird Studio (uncredited) |
| Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018, PlayStation 4) | Original Story |
| Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (2017, PlayStation 4) | Character Designer |
| Dragon Ball: Fusions (2016, Nintendo 3DS) | Original Story |
| Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 (2016, PlayStation 4) | Original Story |
| Dragon Quest Heroes II (2016, PlayStation 4) | Character Design |
| Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below (2015, Windows) | Character Design |
| Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden (2015, Nintendo 3DS) | Original Story |
| Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (2015, Nintendo 3DS) | Character & Monster Design |
| Dragon Ball: Xenoverse (2015, PlayStation 4) | Original Story |
| Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line (2014, Android) | Character & Monster Design |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 45 games with Yuji Horii
- 43 games with Koichi Sugiyama
- 36 games with Yukinobu Chida
- 33 games with Yū Miyake
- 32 games with Taichi Inuzuka
- 27 games with Keiji Honda
- 26 games with Hiroshi Satō
- 25 games with Ryoichi Kuramochi
- 24 games with Takashi Kamimura
- 24 games with Reiko Kondo
Companies
- 23 games with Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- 19 games with Tose Co., Ltd.
- 16 games with Enix Corporation
- 15 games with Atari, Inc.
- 10 games with Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- 10 games with Square Enix, Inc.
- 9 games with Dimps Corporation
- 9 games with CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
- 9 games with Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
- 9 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
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