“But there’s people I care about! And this time around, I’m not gonna just stand by and let them all get hurt!”

I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka’s and Walt Disney’s works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn’t seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

I think there’s a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi.” “I’m Goten.” “I’m Goku. Hi!” …. “Daddy!

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it’s also rewarding because it’s possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way,

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga.

it’s possibly to bring out one’s individuality. If this idea appeals to you,

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I’ve kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

I call on you to try drawing your own manga.

There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.

God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.

If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.