Dragonball Evolution

Image: Toei AnimationThe world was shocked to learn on Thursday night to learn that Akira Toriyama, creator of the eternally longlasting Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away at the age of 68. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyWhether you were born in the 80s or in the 2000s, you couldn’t not know what Dragon Ball was on some level. In a lot of ways, he’s why anime is the juggernaut as we know it today. The shonen series rose to prominence alongside Toonami in the mid-90s, in turn becoming one of the biggest…

Image: Shonen JumpOvernight, the world was shocked with the news that Akira Toriyama—the creator of Dragon Ball and Dr Slump among countless other manga, the character designer on legendary video games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger, and one of the most influential artists of our time—passed away. Now, fans and creators across the world are mourning his loss.There are not many ways to truly articulate just how influential Toriyama’s work was to legions of people—across mediums, across series, across forms and styles…

Image: Shonen JumpAkira Toriyama, one of the most famous and influential mangaka of all time, has died. He was 68.Transformers’ Cristo Fernandez on Dragon Ball | First FandomsThe news was confirmed by the official Dragon Ball website, in a letter addressed to creatives and fans across the world. Toriyama passed away a week ago on March 1, 2024, from an acute subdural hematoma.“Thanks to the support of so many people around the world, has been able to continue his creative activities for over 45 years,” the letter reads…

Taking over the box office like....Image: CrunchyrollWhen fans look at the box office results on Monday morning, most of the time we know what to expect. Big superhero or genre film on top, the big superhero or genre film from the previous week below that, and so on and so forth. But every once in a while there’s something different. Something... Super.That happened this weekend as the number one film at the North American box office wasn’t a traditional studio blockbuster. It wasn’t even a live-action film. No, it was…

Screenshot: 20th CenturyLook. Let’s be honest with each other. I know you don’t have any questions, let alone frequent ones, about 2009’s Dragonball Evolution. Critically and commercially scorned, the movie based loosely (ever-so-loosely) on Akira Toriyama’s best-selling manga and anime of (kind of) the same name has been largely forgotten by the world. This made me wonder, has the passage of time made the movie any better? Short answer: No. Am I punching down by doing a FAQ review of it? Yes, but sometimes that’s exactly…

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise is insanely popular, thanks in part to Toonami and airing the anime adaptation of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z during the 90s. Fandoms are the lifeblood of IP, and Dragon Ball’s fandom has been beating quite strongly more recently, especially with the new theatrical film, Super Hero, hitting theaters in August. But if that’s not enough for here, here’s a fan film that beats with the fandom heart of a thousand suns and is, to be quite blunt, fucking sick.LEGEND - A DRAGON BALL…