Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.

5 April 1955

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • Bernard Longley • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • Ricardo Ferrero • Takayoshi Yamano

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Abdulhadi al-Khawaja • Amer Said Al-Shatri • Arthur Adams (comics) • Brendan Cannon • Gregory Peck • Hiromi Taniguchi • Jakub Sedláček (ice hockey) • Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt • Laura Vicuña • Nelson Parraguez • Nicolas Beer • Sosuke Takatani

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