Akira Toriyama is one of the most popular creator of manga (mangaka in Japanese). His works have also reached a worldwide fame.

He was raised in the regency of Aichi, and was graduate in Engineering in a local school. His first job was as a designer in an advertisement company. He left the company after three years then he decided to enter the world of the Manga by competing to obtain an award and possibly win a prize to get some money. .

He began his magaka career in December1978, when he was 23, with a weekly series Wonder Island published in the issue 52 of the Weekly Shonen Jump. After the publication of few of his short, he was asked by the publisher to create a story with a girl as the main charactere. This was the sart of Dr. Slump (Dr.スランプ), with Arale, an android girl. The manga was so succesful that Akira Toriyama became popular very quickly.

Arale character of Dr. Slump's Manga

Dr. Slump is about a wacky scientist who creates a female android under the name of Arale. The serie was 8 years old when Toritama decided to end it.

Right after he created the hit serie Dragon Ball.  This serie was so popular that Toriyama was able to continue it for over ten years.

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