128 Quotes by Akira Toriyama

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. So where, for 'Slump,' the art was very America-esque, in the case of 'Dragon Ball,' I made it as Chinese as could be.

Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV.

'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo.

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.

I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.

There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.

What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'