Ichiro Oda's tribute to Mangaka Toriyama's Dragon Wings

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

World-renowned mangaka Akira Toriyama sadly passed away earlier this year, leaving many sad and shocked. Since then, many mangaka have paid homage to him because he and his work, Dragon ballchanged the manga industry and touched lives.

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with Dragon ball 40th anniversary, many mangakas, young and old, paid tribute to Toriyama and his revolutionary work by redesigning the cover of Dragon Ball Volume for the Dragon Ball Super Gallery project. Oda, the One Piece mangaka, has always been one of Toriyama's biggest followers and recently paid tribute to him by participating in the project.

Oda's Art Of Volume 42 Dragon Ball

Part of Dragon Ball Super Gallery

Dragon Ball is now 40 years old. The series was first published in 1984 by the series' late mangaka, who passed away earlier this year, Akira Toriyama.

In commemoration of this important milestone for the collection, Super dragon ball The gallery project was held.

Ichiro Oda, mangakai each pieceparticipated in it. For his contribution, he redesigned the cover of the Dragon Vol.42 manga. This cover features Goku, the main character of the dragon.

Oda's relationship with Toriyama

Oda has always admired Toriyama, even going so far as to claim that he is a god. One Piece, his work, is inspired by Toriyama's dragon, as is most shounen manga, due to the revolutionary impact it had on the entire industry.

Toriyama's death earlier this year was big news that affected many who loved 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 through the WSJ magazine, and when the final volume 42 came out, I went to see a bookstore, but I didn't buy it, because Thank you for giving me the opportunity to redraw it, and now, I wish I could buy this cover while Toriyama-sensei is alive!Ichiro Oda

Fans can expect to see more commemorative art from Oda to Toriyama and Dragon ballespecially when it's new Dragon ball The event appears Oda has done this countless times before and would love to once again pay homage to the legendary mangaka.

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