Creator of the legendary Dragon Ball that would inspire late 90s and 2000s generation of Shonen mangaka. 11244w

He was working as graphic designer at a small advertising firm in Nagoya for two and a half years before participated in a contest by Shonen Jump in 1977. He submitted a gag manga because the prize money was the same while had fewer pages. He initially wanted to submit his work to Shonen Magazine but didn’t meet the deadline.

Married shoujo mangaka MIKAMI Nachi in 1982.

Close friends with fellow mangaka TANAZONO Shoichi once went to his house and meet him.

He only employed one assistant on every serialization, which usually assisting on drawing backgrounds. His assistants were OOISHI Naho.

Animator KOYAMA Takao are some of the key names that brought Toriyama's works into anime form.

Along with TORISHIMA Kazuhiko, Toriyama's first editor & HORII Yuji, they were the key figures to the creation of Dragon Quest game franchise.

Toriyama once had a meeting with t project.

-Received the 27th Shogakukan Manga Award in Shounen and Shoujo Category for Dr. Slump in 1981.
-Received the 4th Japan Media Arts Festival Interactive Category Grand Prize for Nagai Go for their contributions to the arts in 2019.

ed away on March 1, 2024 of an acute subdural hematoma, at the age of 68.