Thanks to the extremely famous “Dragon Ball”, Akira Toriyama is undoubtedly the most famous manga author in the world. He began publishing his first stories in Shônen Jump magazine in 1980 with “Doctor Slump” which he drew for four years. He achieved worldwide success with “Dragon Ball”, published in the same magazine for 10 years, from 1985 to 1995, totaling more than 8,000 pages of comics. A masterful series that propels him among the greatest. He then signed “Cowa” in 1998 and two one-shots in 2000, “Kajika” and “Sand Land”, published by Glénat. The studio that Akira Toriyama runs is called “Bird Studio” and in addition to comics he has worked on the design of video game characters like “Toruneko no daibôken” or “Chrono Trigger”.