Published on March 8, 2024 at 12:41 p.m. / Modified on March 8, 2024 at 4:47 p.m.
“A long time ago, a few thousand kilometers from the city, deep in the mountains, our story begins…” These are the words that open the first page of the manga Dragon Ball, published in Japan in 1985, then translated into French eight years later. We then discover the one who will become the icon of an entire generation: a smiling little boy, with shaggy hair and a monkey tail, named Son Goku.
The cartoonist Akira Toriyama, of whose death on March 1st as a result of a subdural hematoma at the age of 68, we learned this weekend, did not know then that he was about to turn his life upside down. life and the world of manga. With a successful series, Dr. Slump, he put an end to his years of hardship and unemployment to become a successful author. Between 1980 and 1984, the adventures of this crazy little android girl and this sex-obsessed professor made him a luminary in the world of manga, but also someone overworked, incapable of keeping up with the infernal pace imposed on him by his publisher.
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