People, Akira Toriyama’s death completely shocked me in ways I never thought possible. It’s always sad when someone responsible for a cause you love dies, but what strikes me today is how much I took him and his work for granted. I didn’t realize he was one of my heroes until it was too late. And while I’m sure our paths would never have crossed, the fact that I find myself in a situation where they could have – and now know they never will – will continue to hurt for a long time . I will always have that Dragon Ball However, a series that has had a profound impact on me people all over the world, and that is no small consolation. And thanks to Toriyama’s relentlessness, I remember him even more. I just need to do a little research, that’s all.
You see, while I’m familiar with Toriyama’s work in anime and manga, his prolific work in games has largely escaped me. Knowing and loving Toriyama’s games means having played legendary titles like Chrono trigger
For example, even though I’m the only person I know who saw this Blue Dragon Anime, I Never Played the game that inspired it, which featured not only Toriyama’s iconic character design work, but also Toriyama’s character writing Final Fantasy‘s creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Blue Dragon ensured a reunion between the two, who had already worked together on the production Chrono triggerand they would work together again on a few more projects Blue Dragon title as well as Sakaguchi’s latest game, fantasy. Toriyama didn’t just create legends like the iconic blue slime Dragon Quest, but also regularly overlapped with real ones. His print can probably be found everywhere you can look in games.
This fact makes it all the more impressive that I managed to skillfully avoid the games that Toriyama is specifically associated with. After all, it’s not like he worked on tiny projects that came and went without much fanfare. Much like his manga work, Toriyama’s games moved mountains. He shaped the spirit and sensibility of a generation. Damn, I love this Like a dragon
With this immense impact in mind, I would like to finally make amends for my monumental mistakes and experience the rest of Toriyama’s groundbreaking works. When I go home today I will boot up my abandoned file Chrono trigger
I may have taken Toriyama-san for granted while he was with us, but I will not make that mistake again upon his death. I’m ready to fall in love with his work all over again and see him in the light that so many of my friends and colleagues have been lucky enough to see.