Dragon Ball Thread - RIP Akira Toriyama

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I would be totally okay if Dragon Ball Daima, the next film, and the upcoming arc of Dragon Ball Super are the last canon work in the franchise. It just won’t be the same now that Toriyama is gone.
 
I think at least the next 2 or 3 arcs are toriyama. They did acknowledge he did leave alot of stuff. His friend who made capsule Corp is in charge of the merchandise of dragon ball. So I think toyotaro & iyoku will take the helm of dragon ball.
 
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RIP Toriyama.
 
Jerry's Magic Ring said:
I would be totally okay if Dragon Ball Daima, the next film, and the upcoming arc of Dragon Ball Super are the last canon work in the franchise. It just won’t be the same now that Toriyama is gone.
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Yeah, I pretty much agree, though I do like conclusive endings. Since things were obviously planned for the foreseeable future it would be tough to rework it into a good ending as-is.

I think they should take what they've got, wrap things up, and adapt Dragon Ball Online's storyline for the ending. At least according to the wiki, Toriyama was pretty involved so it can be considered canon. In it, Goku & Vegeta fight to the death in some distant corner of the universe on an uninhabited planet. It's pretty cool.

 
Jerry's Magic Ring said:
I would be totally okay if Dragon Ball Daima, the next film, and the upcoming arc of Dragon Ball Super are the last canon work in the franchise. It just won’t be the same now that Toriyama is gone.
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A series that ends will always be better than one that continuously gets made over and over.
 
I don't know how to convey what I'm feeling without it coming across as somehow insulting in some way, like my feelings will either come up short of doing justice to his legacy or come off as Reddit overpraise. But here I go.

Akira was a mountain of a man, a pillar of pop culture and his absence leaves a vacuum in anime/manga that could never be filled by the moe pedoslop that came after him and no doubt dominates anime to this day. DBZ was what defined 'cool' for a generation of people around the world, it lionized heroic masculinity in a way other shows didn't, in that greatness had to be earned rather than just won. It taught that struggle wasn't simply necessary but a virtue that endowed such rewards as respectability and strength.

Akira Toriyama's continued work was keeping anime and manga on life support, and in his death he took any virtuous qualities it had left with him. There will never be another mangaka to eclipse his legacy or even reach the same heights of groundbreaking cultural impact. March 1st of 2024 is not simply the date that Akira Toriyama died, it's the date that anime died.

Godspeed you glorious bastard.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Akira was a mountain of a man, a pillar of pop culture and his absence leaves a vacuum in anime/manga that could never be filled by the moe pedoslop that came after him and no doubt dominates anime to this day. DBZ was what defined 'cool' for a generation of people around the world, it lionized heroic masculinity in a way other shows didn't, in that greatness had to be earned rather than just won. It taught that struggle wasn't simply necessary but a virtue that endowed such rewards as respectability and strength.
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Amen. In an anime era of light novel/gacha/new shonen adaptations and terrible originals, Dragon Ball, even if Super wasn't great, was still Dragon Ball from the looks, fights and designs of the setting and characters. No anime of 10+ years has maintained that identity more than DB. With the loss of Toriyama, I believe we have entered the Dark Age of anime, a series of releases that will be slop, only for mass consumption and nothing else.

Goku, if you hear us, save us from this bleak future.
 
the worst part of this is without him, it is a GUARANTEE shueisha is going to run DB into the fucking dirt. expect by the end of the year 4 spin off announcements and fox/disney fast tracking another live action movie
 
Just heard the news, DB is one of my favorite pieces of media so this hits deep. Rest in peace to an absolute legend
 
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