Eiichiro Oda pays homage to Dragon Ball Mangaka Toriyama

Summary

One Piece creator Oda paid tribute to Dragon Ball manga artist Toriyama by redrawing the volume for the Dragon Ball Super Gallery project.
Dragon Ball celebrated its 40th anniversary with this project and allowed various mangakas to honor Toriyama's revolutionary work.
Oda has always admired Toriyama, showing his appreciation by redrawing Dragon Ball volume 42 and expressing his regret for not buying the manga when Toriyama was still alive.

World-renowned mangaka, Akira Toriyama, sadly passed away earlier this year, leaving many sad and in shock. Since then, many mangaka have paid tribute to him because of him and his work Dragon Ballchanged the manga industry and touched lives.

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WITH Dragon Ball's On the 40th anniversary, many mangaka, young and old, paid tribute to Toriyama and his revolutionary work by redrawing the cover of Dragon Ball Volume for the Dragon Ball Super Gallery project. Oda, the One Piece mangaka, has always been one of Toriyama's biggest followers and recently paid tribute to him by participating in the project.

Oda's Art Of Volume 42 of Dragon Ball

Part of the Dragon Ball Super Gallery

Dragon Ball is now a 40 year old series. The series was first published in 1984 by the late mangaka of the series that passed earlier this year, Akira Toriyama.

In commemoration of this major series milestone, Dragon Ball Super The Gallery project took place.

Eiichiro Oda, manga artist One pieceparticipated in it. For his contribution, he redrawn the manga cover of Dragon Ball Volume 42. This cover features Goku, the main character of Dragon Ball.

Oda's relationship with Toriyama

Oda has always admired Toriyama, even going so far as to claim that he was God. One Piece, his work, is heavily inspired by Toriyama's Dragon Ball, as is most Shonen manga, due to the revolutionary effect it had on the industry as a whole.

Toriyama's death was a major news story earlier this year, affecting many people who loved the series.

Here's what Oda once said about Toriyama and his love for Dragon Ball:

“I bought the first volume of the Dragon Ball manga series in elementary school, but I didn't buy the second volume! I always read the chapters through the WSJ magazine, and when the last volume 42 came out, I went to the bookstore and saw it, but I didn't buy it it. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to redraw it And now I wish I could buy this volume while Toriyama-sensei is still alive” — Eiichiro Oda!

Fans can expect to see more commemorative art from Oda towards Toriyama and Dragon Ballespecially when it's new Dragon Ball the event pops up. Oda has done so on countless occasions and would like to once again pay tribute to the legendary manga artist.

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