Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Rare Cover Revealed: Goku and Oolong Featured – 40 Years Later

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Heritage Akira Toriyama It really is timeless, detikers. After his departure, which shocked the anime industry, several of his works are still published and broadcast to this day.

Recently, the official site Dragon ball showing the cover of the 11th book that appeared almost 40 years ago. More precisely, on February 15, 1985, it is very rare, detikers.

The cover shows a picture of Goku and Oolong rushing to get on one of the vehicles. This image is very rare, guys, because it is one of Akira Toriyama’s precious archives.

The picture of Goku and Oolong comes with the following description: “Although Oolong doesn’t appear much in this part of the story, he sure makes a big show on the cover of this Dragon Ball book! The aggressive mech design Oolong and Goku travel in is pretty cool too.”

Fun fact, detikers, the first design version of Oolong depicted him as a farmer.

Before he was depicted in the uniform of a Chinese communist soldier, similar to Napoleon from Animal Farm. In the Dragon Ball universe, there are several characters inspired by classic Chinese stories, from Journey to the West including Goku and Oolong.

While Oolong’s role in the larger story cannot be underestimated, it diminishes as the series progresses. After the events of the Battle of Gods, he is always the first character to use the Dragon Balls.

Look at the Dragon Ball Manga

For the uninitiated, the Dragon Ball manga began serialization in 1984 in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The comic was successfully adapted into an anime and aired in Japan in 1986.

So since then, Dragon Ball has quickly become the biggest franchise in Japan.

Dragon Ball spawned manga sequels, spin-offs, animated films and video games. Dragon Ball has also become one of the best selling manga of all time and has influenced the younger generation of comic artists.

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