#sure there were other series and other mangaka but dbz and toriyama-sensei were IT for me

[doux-amer]

Oh my god, the news about Akira Toriyama. I'm stunned, but the grief is seeping in between the cracks and I'm not prepared. He is and was invincible and immortal to me.

#i just had a speedrun through my childhood reading the news #thinking about family and friends some of whom i haven't seen in a long time #thinking about dragon ball and dbz and dr. slump and just #this was my childhood #sure there were other series and other mangaka but dbz and toriyama-sensei were IT for me #days on the playground playing like we were in that world #that we had saiyan powers #a friend printing out art for me which...you don't even know! #we were so young and that was back in the DAY. idek how he even was allowed #little dude just printing out sheets of bright saturated colored art #and gifting them to me at school #the fact that this was the universal language and point of connection for poc kids #god.......and to hear why he died...this is awful. he's gone too early