it's 6am or so here and I can't stop crying. Toriyama's works are such a major part to my life. I met some of my best friends because of Dragon Ball and Dr Slump, I always loved looking at his art style for hours at a time, I always wanted to at the very least express my art so beautifully like he did. His influence on so many other works of media just shows how powerful he was, and yet he was such a simple man. It feels like a close family member has passed, maybe that's a bit overdramatic, but my heart has a hole rn from loosing one of my biggest heros
While I've never really talked in depth on here, the way all of Akira Toriyama's works shaped my life and almost every single one of my stories/characters is unreal. I wouldn't be a content creator without the amount of dragon ball OCS I've made. I was the kid that would get so excited I couldn't sit down watching every single episode, or geeking out whenever I saw any reference to his works anywhere, I remember crying in joy when I got those fake Dragonballs as a gift. How even my grandparents, as confused as they were, tried to buy me the issues and latest movies on DVDs. I wouldn't have made any of my closest friends without my burning passion for this show.
To be a true warrior is to fight for what's right and pure. To be the strongest is to be the kindest. Thank you Toriyama, from me and millions of others for everything you've done.