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He's born in the outskirts of nagoya to Karasu and Tonbi, his father and mother.
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Graduated from the design department of the "Prefectural Industrial High School"
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Started working at "Shueisha", a manga publisher, as an artist -
Debuted as a manga artist with the publication of Wonder Island in the #52 issue of Shonen Jump.
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Pola & Roid, published in Shonen Jump #17
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Dragon Ball manga burst into Shonen Jump, in issue #51 -
Dragon Ball vol. 1 published -
TV game Dragon Quest goes on sale (Toriyama in charge of character design)
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Dragon Ball was one of the linchpins for what is accepted as the "Golden Age of Jump". The success from Dragon Ball encouraged Akira Toriyama to continue working on the series from 1984 to 1995. During that 11-year period, he made 519 chapters collected into 42 tankōbon volumes. Each volume has an average of 200 pages, so the entire Dragon Ball storyline extends to almost 9,000 pages.
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Movie premiere of Dragon Ball - The Sleeping Princess of Demon Castle -
In 2008, Akira Toriyama began working on manga projects with his long-time best friend Masakazu Katsura. With Katsura drawing the illustrations and Toriyama writing the story, the two widely known manga artists made Sachi-chan Gū!! (2008) and Jiya (2009–2010); both were later collected into a single volume released on April 4, 2014 in Japan. In 2009,
