Akira Toriyama

“Oh I get it. Krillian, you have a crush on Android Eighteen!”

— Akira Toriyama

Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back.…

— Akira Toriyama

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into…

— Akira Toriyama

I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi." "I'm Goten." "I'm Goku. Hi!" .... "Daddy!

— Akira Toriyama

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

— Akira Toriyama

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get…

— Akira Toriyama

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

— Akira Toriyama

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

— Akira Toriyama

“One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically…

— Akira Toriyama

I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.

— Akira Toriyama

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

— Akira Toriyama

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

— Akira Toriyama

Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at…

— Akira Toriyama

“Gohan...Is that sunburn or are you blushing?”

— Akira Toriyama

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

— Akira Toriyama

I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models.

— Akira Toriyama

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

— Akira Toriyama

If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never…

— Akira Toriyama

I love girls, whether they wear glasses or not!

— Akira Toriyama

I generally leave the television on while I'm working.

— Akira Toriyama

It's a pain to draw different-looking humans.

— Akira Toriyama

There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against…

— Akira Toriyama

The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can't draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw…

— Akira Toriyama

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

— Akira Toriyama

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then…

— Akira Toriyama