Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist and character designer who was born on April 5, 1955. He rose to prominence thanks to his renowned manga series Dr. Slump, before moving on to develop Dragon Ball (his most well-known work) and work as a character designer for a number of notable video games, including the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon.

With Dr. Slump, he won the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shonen or shojo manga, and the book went on to sell more than 35 million copies in Japan. It was converted into a popular anime series, with a sequel released 13 years after the manga's conclusion. Dragon Ball would go on to become one of the most popular and profitable manga series in the world. It is the third best-selling manga of all time, with 250–300 million copies sold worldwide, and is credited as one of the main reasons for the peak of manga circulation in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.

Detailed Information:

Min. estimated sales: 298 million

Max. estimated sales: 438 million

Original language: Japanese

Genre and/or major works: Manga, Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Super

Number of books: 66