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10/22/26(Thu)19:47:21 No.291789287

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Anonymous 10/22/26(Thu)19:47:21 No.291789287

Based Torishima

- He was strongly against making Goku an adult. He was seriously worried it would kill DB's sales.
- He hated how Toei handled the Piccolo Daimao fight. The team was the same one from Dr. Slump who are great at comedy but sucks at fight scenes. This was one of the low points.
- Because of that mess, they decided to rebrand the franchise with Dragon Ball Z and bring in a new team.
- The team who worked on Z is the same one that worked on Saint Seiya.
- Torishima considers these two moments the toughest in Dragon Ball's entire history.
- The actual reason it's called Z is because Toriyama thought Z was the last letter of the alphabet, so nothing more would come out after it.
- When DB ended, the manga industry crashed down. According to him, GT was made because otherwise half the industry would lose their jobs.
- On the subject of Dragon Ball Daima, Torishima made it no secret to express his disdain and said: "Daima is shit. Everyone at Toei hates me. Daima betrays Dragon Ball; it's slow, stupid and the first episode is useless. I have no idea how it was approved in the first place."
- Torishima thinks old manga are much better than modern manga.
- Torishima says today's manga suck because they rarely take the actual print into account. They don't take into consideration the two pages of a spread and he blames smartphones for it
- Torishima also criticized modern manga heavily. He says most current series are overloaded with narration and explanations. A proper manga page should be readable in just 3 seconds, echoing the philosophy of the Father of Manga, Osamu Tezuka
- According to Torishima, Weekly Shonen Jump (and manga in general) became much wordier as the readership aged. Mangaka began writing for adults instead of kids, changing the whole style
- He thinks One Piece sucks because it's no longer really a manga for kids due to that
- Torishima doesn't think there's a single good manga today.
- Chrono Trigger was originally a nudge from Torishima