What’s kind of wild is that his instantly recognizable style was both this:
And this:
Dbz is THE big cross cultural pollinator of Japanese pop culture from Japan for decades. Often the among his first or second thing introduced.
Yeah but Goku was invented in dr slump no?
Yeah, but I guess the point is there’s a huge difference between Dragon Ball Goku vs. DBZ Goku. You can see the threads connecting them, but it’s weird to put them side by side.
Man, I thought I played a fair bit of Chrono Trigger, but don’t remember ever seeing that (though it’s been a while so maybe I just forgot). Here’s a real-life picture of them (Toriyama, Dragon Quest’s Yuji Horii, and Final Fantasy’s Hironobu Sakaguchi) that might have served as reference:
Fucking people humble bragging their signed merch and flexing their swag https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1766053155270225954?t=Q10LFv0_v4rljqSAYUWuCw&s=19
There are so many things to say about the man, but for now I’ll say I love how inventive the guy was.
Look at all the different kinds of monsters in Dragon Quest. How something as simple as the Slime has so much character to it.
And then Dragon Ball. It’s a world with huge barren wastelands, dinosaurs, anthropomorphic dog people, and capsules that poof into anything.
There’s so much going on that we just see hints of, and it suggests this word that’s weird, but similar, and so rich with detail.
It’s one of those fictional worlds I wish I could visit, despite how dangerous it might be
That’s amazing.
In Spain Dragon Ball was popular, but Saint Seiya and Captain Tsubasa (called Campeones) overshadowed it.
Late 80s, early 90s I would say all cartoons on TV were anime (or anime adjacent like Batman the Animated Series).
In Portugal, both those shows were on TV, and I guess they were popular, somewhat. But nothing compared to:
