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

“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.”

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