Akira Toriyama, creator of the unbelievable Dragon Ball franchise, is getting a prestigious posthumous honor at New York Comedian-Con 2024.
The mastermind behind Dragon Ball, Akira is undoubtedly some of the influential figures in trendy manga and anime. His work throughout a number of anime exhibits and his longrunning Shonen manga have garnered generations of followers over the past 40 years.
The Harvey Awards has revealed he’ll be a part of the 2024 inductees for his or her corridor of fame, the place icons of sequential artwork are acknowledged for his or her contributions throughout comics, manga, and past. He’ll be formally inducted at this yr’s NYCC.
Akira is the third mangaka to get such a prestigious award, after Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, and Rumiko Takahashi, the author and artist behind InuYasha. He’s in good firm, although there’s a tinge of disappointment that this didn’t occur sooner, when he was alive.
This comes on the again of Dragon Ball Daima, his final contributions to the property as a inventive lead. The TV present options Goku and the Z Fighters changed into childlike model of themselves by a mysterious baddie.
It’s set earlier than the occasions of Dragon Ball Tremendous, and contains a return to a extra comedic tone for the franchise. Daima’s not the one launch that includes his fashion, although, as Sand Land, an authentic mini-series from Akira, got here out this yr as nicely.
A Mad Max-style put up apocalyptic romp, Sand Land is a vital reminder that Dragon Ball wasn’t Akira’s solely inventive work. Since beginning his profession with Dr Hunch in 1980, he’s made all types of contributions throughout the trade, together with to video video games comparable to Dragon Quest and Chrono Set off.
Optimistically, this can result in extra followers digging additional into his again catalog. Take a look at our upcoming anime information for different legends within the making.