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It's been one year since the passing of Manga Artist and character designer Akira Toriyama the creator of the Dragon Ball franchise. Toriyama first achieved mainstream recognition for creating his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball, he also was character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. He would also create other mangas like Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater, Pink/The Rain Jack Story, Akira Toriyama's Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo, Rocky, Wolf, Go! Go! Ackman, Cowa!, Kajika, Neko Majin, Sand Land, This is the Police Station in front of Dragon Park on Planet Namek, Cross Epoch, Delicious Island's Mr. U, Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, Dragon Ball Super. Toriyama earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. Many artists have named Toriyama and Dragon Ball as one of their biggest influences in many main stream mangas, comics, anime, and cartoons. Toriyama thank you for creating Dragon Ball and many more of your wonderful works. Dragon Ball Z was the first anime I watched when I was Kid and it too had big influence on me as well. I would never be anime fan without Dragon Ball and I thank you. We will all miss you dearly. My Condolences to his friends, Families, and colleagues.