Akira Toriyama

“In the beginning, I was planning to end 'Dragon Ball' when all seven Dragon Balls had been collected.”

“Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. If I made the real world the setting, I'd have to draw looking at reference materials for stuff like buildings and vehicles. When you do that, people complain even if it's just a little bit off.”

“I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. It's quite dramatic and the kind of story I absolutely wouldn't draw if it were me. It was like watching a different kind of 'Dragon Ball' in a good way, so I thought it was nice.”

“If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.”

“I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.”

“Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at all.”