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TOKYO — Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. He was 68.
Toriyama died March 1 of a blood clot in his brain, his production office Bird Studio said in a statement. Pedestrians walk past a poster advertising the popular “Dragon Ball” manga franchise along a street in the Akihabara area of Tokyo on March 8, 2024. The creator of Japan’s hugely popular and influential “Dragon Ball” comics and anime cartoons, Akira Toriyama, has died aged 68, his production team said on March 8.
Born in the Aichi prefecture in central Japan in 1955, Toriyama debuted in 1978 in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. His Dr Slump series that started in 1980 became a huge hit, elevating him to a best-selling young comic artist.
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