Eiichiro Oda pays homage to Toriyama's Dragon Ball Manga

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Oda, the creator of One Piece, has paid tribute to Dragon Ball mangaka Toriyama by redesigning the book cover for the Dragon Ball Super Gallery project.
Dragon Ball celebrated its 40th anniversary with the project, allowing various mangaka to pay tribute to Toriyama's revolutionary work.
Oda has always admired Toriyama, expressing his gratitude for his review of the 42nd volume of Dragon Ball and regretting not buying the manga when Toriyama was alive.

World-renowned manga artist Akira Toriyama passed away earlier this year, leaving many in mourning and shock. Since then, many monks have honored him, because he and his work, Dragon Ballchanged the blues industry and touched lives.

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in the The Dragon Ball For the 40th anniversary, many mangaka, both young and old, have paid tribute to Toriyama and his revolutionary works by remastering the Dragon Ball Volume images for the Dragon Ball Super Gallery project. One Piece mangaka Oda is one of Toriyama's biggest fans of all time, and he recently credited him for contributing to the project.

Oda's Art of Volume 42 of Dragon Ball

Part of the Dragon Ball Super Gallery

Dragon Ball is a 40 year old series. First published in 1984 by Akira Toriyama's last mangaka in the series that passed away earlier this year.

To commemorate this milestone in the series, the Dragon Ball Super It was a Gallery project.

Eiichiro Oda, the mangaka of One pieceparticipated in it. For his participation, he recreated the manga cover of the 42nd volume of Dragon Ball. This cover features Goku, the main character of Dragon Ball.

Oda's relationship with Toriyama

Oda has always admired Toriyama, even calling him a god. One Piece, his work, takes heavy inspiration from Toriyama's Dragon Ball, like most Shonen manga, due to its revolutionary impact on the entire industry.

Toriyama's death earlier this year was big news, affecting fans of the series.

Here's what Oda once said about Toriyama and his love for Dragon Ball:

“I bought the first volume of the Dragon Ball manga series when I was in elementary school, but I didn't buy the second volume! I always read the chapters in the WSJ magazine, and when the last 42 volumes came out I went to the bookstore and found that I didn't buy anything!

Fans can expect to see more memorabilia from Oda to Toriyama and Dragon Ballespecially when new Dragon Ball the action emerges. Oda had done this many times, and he wanted to honor the famous mangaka again.

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