Shenlong Times — 7th Issue

Toriyama: I’m not busy at all. My work for the Dragon Ball Daizenshuu has also settled down, so I’m not doing any work right now. (laughs)

Toriyama: Well, every morning after I see my son off to school, I can finally sleep. Right now, I’m building a new workspace. So, in coming up with the plans and such, I end up staying up all night. I’m pulling more all-nighters than when I was doing a weekly serial. (laughs)

Toriyama: Just a little bit. I’ll check the stories that come up from Toei Animation, and give them a little bit of advice. Also, I’ve drawn just a few characters and illustrations. But it’s interesting! It feels like, “Ah, so they could do it this way”. I think everyone at Toei Animation really racked their brains. Good work. To think they’d make Goku little. With this story, I might even be able to continue the manga serialization again… though I have absolutely no intention of drawing it. (laughs)

Toriyama: Yes! I recommend it. I’m also looking forward to it as an ordinary viewer.

Toriyama: Ah, come to think of it, soon I’ll be getting a Macintosh (a PC made by Apple Computer, Inc.) from a certain person!

Katsura: Hm? What are you talking about?

Toriyama: I was talking about a Macintosh. Do you know what a Macintosh is? I bet you don’t know anything about stuff like computers.

Katsura: What are you saying? You’re tech-dumb, too. Can you work a sound system by yourself?

Toriyama: Sound? I can listen to music if I want.

Katsura: Not that; I mean, can you connect the cables, and make it work? Stuff like that.

Toriyama: Ah, nope. I can’t.

Katsura: See? We’re both tech-dumb.

Toriyama: But, once I get a Macintosh, it’ll be amazing. I’ll leave people like you in the dust, Katsura-kun. It seems like I’ll be able to do a lot of interesting things, too. If I say, “Put the main character in a running pose!” into the mic, maybe it’ll go ahead and draw it for me? That sort of thing would be the ideal.

Katsura: You really hate anything that involves actual work, don’t you? You don’t even use screen tone…

Toriyama: You use too much. (laughs) Oh, that’s right. You’re going to draw something this time in the Shenlong Times, aren’t you. Why don’t you draw Goku with tone all over the place?

Katsura: Ah, that’s good.

Toriyama: Do it, then. This time, was it?

Toriyama: I do have a lot of ideas, though. As I learn how to use the Macintosh, I’ll go ahead with writing a one-shot or something.

Panel 1
With the cover art for this Daizenshuu volume seven, I am now finished drawing art for Dragon Ball. It’s the last one.

And on top of that, this cover illustration is the one I used back in the last panel of the final chapter.

At that time, I painted it in with two colors, but for the Daizenshuu, I just made a photocopy and painted it for four-color [printing].

Panel 2
I had planned on slacking off, but this actually took more time to do, so I kind of failed….

…Crap……

……But, I don’t have to draw it ever again.

Panel 3
I’M SO HAPPY~~~~!!

WITH THIS, I’VE FINALLY BEEN SET FREE FROM DRAGON BALL———!!!

Panel 4
…Writing it that way, you might think that I must have hated Dragon Ball with a passion, but that’s not the case.

It’s just that, for someone like me, who only looks ahead to tomorrow, a manga that’s already ended holds no interest.

Panel 5
And as for whether I’ll be drawing a new manga right away, I won’t.

I don’t have that kind of talent, so I’ll have to think about it long and hard, starting now.

It’s the same thing even when I’m drawing a one-shot with just a few pages.

Panel 6
Plus, right now, I’ve got six cover illustrations to do for Daizaburō Okumoto-sensei’s [translation of] Fabre’s Souvenirs Entomologiques, [See “I LOVE DRAGON BALL” in the Shenlong Times from Daizenshuu 6] as well as some design work that’s still a secret, so thinking about manga will have to come after that…

I don’t mind if you forget about me, but if a one-shot manga appears in Shōnen Jump, please read it.

Although I have no confidence in it being interesting…

Panel 7
So goodbye, everyone.

Thank you very much for liking Dragon Ball!

The TV show and movies will continue, so please [continue to support them]!

(sign) This has been AKIRA TORIYAMA

Greetings, all you Dragon Ball fans; I am “K2R-Man” [pronounced “Katsura-Man”], a.k.a. Masakazu Katsura. I have had the honor of being a close friend of Toriyama-sensei these past 16 years. Recently, I have had the privilege of consulting with him on a number of things related to work. Why, I remember back during the series DNA2: when he told me, “If you’re going to have your main character transform, why not try changing the color of his hair?” and further, “Like I said, you’ve just gotta make him fight,” it felt like the word of God. And then when I drew it, with some unease that it might be exactly the same as a Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball fans chastised me with things like “Stop mocking Dragon Ball!” and “Stop copying Dragon Ball!” It is a bittersweet memory. For that reason, I now have been given the honor of drawing Goku and No. 18 (for what reason?). Goku ended up looking like he might go off to Harajuku or Shibuya, but I ask you, dear fans, please try not to be angry.

(Toriyama:) You use too much tone.
(Katsura:) …

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