Akira Toriyama’s “Me These Days”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
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