Toriyama Akira's painting style is very cartoon. Whether it is a character or something else, he always has a round head and a round brain, and the ratio of head to body is particularly large, which is very cute. Even so, Toriyama Akira's profound painting skills are vividly reflected, and every page is very delicate.
Toriyama Akira's main works are:
"Dragon Ball" (previously translated as "Dragon Ball" in Chinese mainland, * * Volume 43)
Doctor of IQ (translated as Alalei in Chinese mainland, *** 18).
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Toriyama Akira's most influential works are actually Dragon Ball and Doctor of IQ.
Let's start with the dragon ball. (Ah ... Dragon Ball is so famous, I'm afraid it's hard to judge. The protagonist in the story is called "Monkey King" (with a tail). In the first book, there is also a pig named "Oolong" and Niu Wangmo. It's like copying the posture of Journey to the West negatively, but after a few books, the development of the story has nothing to do with Journey to the West. "Oolong" and "Niu Wangmo" were also rare in later stories, and then it was even worse. It can be seen that Toriyama Akira really wanted to refer to The Journey to the West when he first started painting, but later he changed his mind.
Judging from the characters, because the story happened in modern times, it is very different from "the Monkey King" and "Niu Wangmo" in The Journey to the West. The most obvious is Niu Wangmo, actually an ordinary uncle, but with a helmet with horns, hehe.
The fighting scenes of Dragon Ball are really wonderful, the movements are natural and reasonable, the pictures are smooth, and all kinds of tricks emerge one after another, which is a classic of martial arts comics.
Personally, I think the Dragon Ball should end at the end of the thirty-fifth book, no matter from the picture on the last page of the thirty-fifth book, from the cover and title (goodbye soldier), or from the overall plot arrangement. But there are still eight books behind, I don't know why.
"Dragon Ball" was a great success. It was adapted into animation, made into video games and various posters ... but while affirming it, people also raised a lot of dissatisfaction. For example, in recent years, the fighting scenes have gradually escalated, but the characterization is not as good as before, the painting style is getting rougher and rougher, and the story has entered the routine of killing people. Think about it, too. "Bound Wang Quan" has changed from one time to dozens of times, and the transformation of super Saiyan has also changed from the most common to the so-called "three generations of super Saiyan". Alas ..... actually, this is a common problem. Many cartoons (in fact, they are not just cartoons), such as Saint and Fist of the Big Dipper. For a long work, the story is always novel and changeable, which is really difficult. In this case, Tsuzaka Kitajima's consistent form of unit drama is indeed a very wise choice.
Now let's talk about Toriyama Akira's most distinctive work: Doctor of IQ. It can be said that it doesn't matter if you haven't seen the Dragon Ball, but you must watch Dr. IQ. This work makes me feel that Toriyama Akira is really an extraordinary person.
Toriyama Akira's Humor-Doctor of IQ. Among many humorous cartoons, this one is very special and refreshing. In the form of unit drama, the story tells the story of people living in a village called Tianshen. The protagonist is a little robot girl named Zejuan Xiaoyun. There are several typical funny elements in the story: "shit", "Superman" and "the author himself".
"Shit" (I'm really sorry if you are eating, hehe). In Dr. IQ, shit often appears. Xiaoyun and Xiaoji are always playing with shit. Sometimes shit is personified, and eyes and legs grow out. In fact, children are very interested in shit (children are interested in things with characteristics). If children find a pile of shit in the street, they will scream in surprise. Bird Shang Ming is not ashamed of shit. Most people don't like and disdain to put shit into his works. I still remember a scene in the book, in which an alien (from the appearance, the earth people wore a hat in the shape of a fly's head) found that this kind of thing called excrement on the earth was really fragrant and drooling. He stirred it with his fingers, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed a pile of shit. He said he would bring some back later. Alas ..... nowadays people are very tired, and they always need to pretend to be serious in front of others, but in Dr. IQ, smile happily.
Superman. The appearance is exactly the same as that of American Superman, but it is a Q version (in fact, the characters in Dr. IQ are all Q versions compared with Hojo Tsuzaka and Tetsuo Hara). But the difference is that the superman here is no longer the superman with super power, courage and justice, but an ordinary uncle who wants to imitate Superman, with superman's hair (the face is exactly the same as the real superman), usually wearing glasses and happens to work in a newspaper. When he changed, he wore superman clothes. But he can't fly, so he slides forward on the skateboard, with his hands flat and pretending to fly; Sometimes when the cloak is washed and not dry, it is replaced with a quilt; Sometimes someone happens to be on the phone in the telephone hall, and he forcibly pulls them out and changes them himself (that is, changes superman clothes from the schoolbag); And the bad guys are always better than him, so he was afraid of death and had to surrender on the spot. When the bad guy left, he said, hey … you ran so fast, so in the sunset, he solemnly said, "I saved the earth again!" Great! When can there be real peace? " Will such a superman give you a refreshing comedy effect? Personally, I think it's for sure-Superman is one of the most successful characters in Dr. IQ.
The author himself. It is rare to see the author's own image in comics. It often appears in Dr. IQ. Toriyama Akira painted himself as a masked robot, blending in with the people in the village of God. Sometimes there are such plots in comics. Someone will say to Toriyama Akira in the cartoon, "Hey, since you are the author, how about drawing my legs longer?" ; Sometimes Toriyama Akira will come to be the referee of a game, and even take the prize money after the game, and then call me the author, and then everyone will swear. Ha ha laugh ... isn't it interesting? You won't know until you read it.
In Dr. IQ, everything is cartoon, and the sun, pigs … can talk; There is also a famous Japanese triad "three-person group" in the comic book, but there are only three uncles eating "strawberry sticks" and wearing sunglasses in the comic book; Toriyama Akira's editor often appears in comics, because he often urges Toriyama Akira to ask for a manuscript, so his image can be imagined in comics% A.