For decades, the world of the Z-Fighters in Dragon Ball has been one of the biggest universes running in the medium of anime, with the latest series of Dragon Ball Super seeing Goku and company battling against deities and entire alternate realities as new transformations abound such as Ultra Instinct and Super Saiyan God. Now, the creator of the shonen franchise is celebrating his sixty-seventh birthday and fans are praising the work of Akira Toriyama as the mangaka continues to have a big hand in forging the future of the Saiyans.
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Dragon Ball first arrived as a manga in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in 1984, with the story of the Saiyan Goku continuing to be told today with decades of history now under its belt. While Toriyama himself is no longer drawing the adventures of the Z-Fighters in Dragon Ball Super, with that task being given to the artist known as Toyotaro, the creator of the Shonen franchise still takes the opportunity to inject new ideas into the franchise. Creating the story of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, Toriyama has stated in the past that he believes it to be one of the best stories he has created to date.
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