Voilà quelques interviews que les fans ont peut-être loupé. Ca provient toujours de la même source.
What kind of person is Akira Toriyama?
Q1.What do you now hope to accomplish?
A. I guess I want to complete this plastic tank model.
Q2. Is there anyone you hold in high esteem?
A. I suppose it'd be my wife. I get the feeling that I can't win against her taste and knowledge.
Q3. Are you picky about food?
A. I have absolutely no preferences when it comes to food.
Q4. What animals do you like, and which do you hate?
A. The ones I like are amphibians, and after that dogs or cats. Mice are the only ones I dislike, but I'm getting over it now that my kids made me get hamster.
Q5. If you were to sum up your personality in a few words?
A. Not even I understand my personality.
Q6. Do you like girls?
A. “Girls”, as they are called? I like them! I love them! But it's tough for me to communicate them, since way back when...
Q7. What kind of girl do you like?
A. I like assertive, masculine people. After that, I like girls who wear glasses [heart]. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megane-ko[/url]Meganekko[/url] sure are great!
Q8. Recently, have you had moments when you thought you were perveted?
A. I've always thought that (laughs). Like when I unexpectedly see someone's underwear...or when I sometimes see something perverted on a video or the internet. And I also love perverted stories [heart]
Q9. What did you do with the pair of panties you received from a reader? [Toriyama mentioned this in one of his weekly comments that went along with each chapter, and the comment got reprinted in Daizenshuu 7. It might have also been mentioned in one of his tankoubon intros]
A. I hung them up for a while, but they got stained with tobacco tar, so I threw them away (laughs).
Q10. What do you use as background music while you work?
A. I don't like music that much...I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco, or QUEEN. I've liked those since way back.
Ask Toriyama!
“If” section
Q1. If you had Hoi-Poi capsule, what would you put in them?
A. I'd really want some. I guess it'd be good to put my entire house into one, since it'd make moving easy.
Q2. If you had Kinto-un, where would you go?
A. Wouldn't I not be able to ride it? I'm not pure...
Q3. If you had brains on par with Bulma's, what would you make?
A. A transporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain.
DB character section
Q1. Were there any models for Bulma's hairstyles?
A. There weren't any models, but I tried to consciously change her hairstyle during each turning point [in the story].
Q2. Did Lunch ever manage to meet up with Tenshinhan?
A. I wonder...Tenshinhan gave Lunch the cold shoulder, but she tenaciously persisted, and ultimately they were together! Couldn't that be it? (laughs)
Q3. What become of Tsuru-sennin and Tao Pai Pai afterwards?
A. Ye~ah...they got mixed up in something or another and died, but they were bad people, so perhaps they weren't restored to life...
Q4. How strong is Mister Satan?
A. I think he's plenty strong. But...I don't get the feeling that he's as strong as Bob Sapp (laughs).
Q5. Was Yamcha able to become happy?
A. I've al~ways had that feeling (laughs).
Q6. Afterwards, was Vegeta always unemployed?
A. Bulma is absurdly rich, so there's no need for him to work.
Q7. Pan-chan is strong, but is Bra strong as well?
A. Well, I think she's strong.
Manga artist section
Q1. How did you think up the clothing designs?
A. I looked at stuff like the clothes my wife wears and fashion magazines, and I could tell what was popular by watching TV. It wouldn't be skillful to draw them just as they were, so I changed them around a bit.
Q2. Which is more fun, to draw a girl's body or face?
A. The body's the fun one. But I'm not really confident [at drawing it].
Q3. Please give a few words to young people who aspire to be manga artists.
A. I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides manga. I don't think you can become a manga artist if you look at nothing but manga.
Source : infos extraites des guidebooks DragonBall Landmark et DragonBall Forever sortis en 2003 et 2004.
The Toriyama Interview
The format’s the same as the one in the Story Volume, a sort of short Q&A style, as opposed to a more conversational style like in the daizenshuu interviews. It’s a lot like the question corner in the early tankoubon volumes.
Naming schemes and deign motifs
The first two questions are nothing major. On why character names have a theme (like with vegetables for Saiyans), he says it’s because it’s easier to think them up that way. With Freeza, even though he’s named after a freezer, he really named him with the idea of a refrigerator in mind. That is, if Freeza is a refrigerator, then all his underlings would be things you put inside refrigerators. So the Saiyans are vegetables, Ginyu and co. are dairy items, and the other evil aliens are fruit. The next question is on design motifs for characters. Cell has a bug motif, and Piccolo has a snail motif.
Mister Satan’s name
Then he’s asked about Mister Satan’s real name. As Toriyama’s mentioned before, like in DragonBall Forever’s name pun guide, “Mister Satan” is just the character’s ring name. His real name is something different. So what is his real name? Well, according to Toriyama, it’s…
*drum roll*
*wait for it*
*wa~ait for it*
*brace yourself*
*more drum roll*
Mark.
No, really.
As Toriyama explains, this is a pun on akuma/devil, fitting his ring name. In Japanese, Mark is writtenマーク/maaku, and if you rearrange that, you get “akuma”. They don’t have family names in the region where Mister Satan lives, so his name is simply “Mark”. Toriyama adds that Videl is the character’s real name, not a ring name (“Videl” being “devil” rearranged a’course). There’s a picture of Mister Satan, with him asking people to please call him “Mister Satan”. Whatever you say Mark.
Cosmos
Next is a question on how Toriyama came up with the structure of the DB cosmos. He said it was so that it would be easy for both him and the readers to understand. As he explains, it’s this big ball, divided up into the living world and afterlife, and outside that ball are the Kaioshin.
But, Toriyama adds, at the bottom of that big ball, like an antipode, is the Demon Realm (Makai), where there are the Makaioshin (“Gods of the Kings of the Demon Realm; an obvious counterpart to the Kaioshin), who rule over evil. Toriyama says that it seems at the moment, the Kaioshin’s power is greater than the Makaioshin (Japanese not really having a plural form, it’s unclear from all this whether there is only one Makaioshin or more). To go along with this information, there’s another reprint of the standard picture of the DB cosmos, with labels for the Kaioshin Realm, 4 Kaio Planets, and the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm is labeled as being in that little tip at the bottom of the cosmos, like it was in Daizenshuu 7 (in Daizenshuu 4, where the DB cosmos map was first printed, the Demon Realm wasn’t labeled).
Where Kaio come from
Toriyama is next asked what the Kaio’s heredity system is like. Toriyama explains that inside the giant ball that is the DB cosmos is a world called Planet Kaishin (World-Core), which is where the Kaio are all born and raised. This planet is like a giant version of the Kaio Planets that North Kaio and the others live on. On it is a gigantic tree (or trees; the lack of Japanese plural clouds up things again), the Kaiju (World-Tree), and the Kaio are all born from the fruit of this tree, as Shin-jin (Core-People). The population of this planet is about 80. The Shin-jin are genderless, and their average life expectancy is said to be 75,000 years. They live leisurely lives, studying various things at a school-like castle. But whenever one of the Kaio on the Kaio Planets passes away, they draw lots among themselves to choose who will take that Kaio’s place and become the new Kaio. The Kaioshin, however, are chosen only from among Shin-jin born from a special golden fruit that is particularly rare. Occasionally there are delinquent Shin-jin with evil hearts, and they go to be with the Makaio (“Demon Realm Kings”; apparently the Demon Realm answer to the Kaio, like the Makaioshin are to the Kaioshin, though Toriyama doesn’t explain the term).
So there you have it: the supreme gods of the DB cosmos are chosen by lottery. As Crow T. Robot would say, this is weird theology. There’s a diagram illustrating the whole Kaiju fruit thing, showing South Kaio comes from a normal fruit, and East Kaioshin coming from a golden one. There’s also a picture of North Kaio, remarking on his luck at the lottery, and one of Goku saying he’s surprised Kaio wasn’t chosen for his bad jokes.
Dragonballs
The next question is on what it’s like to touch a dragonball. Toriyama says he thinks the dragonballs are like hard resin. He adds that even if you poke a hole in a dragonball or harm it in some other way, after a wish is granted and the balls all scatter and eventually regenerate from stones, the harmed dragonball will be as good as new.
Zeni
Toriyama is asked how much a zeni is worth. He answers that to keep it simple, he imagined them as being about the same as a yen (so 100 zeni=about 1 US dollar). The value of Hoi-Poi Capsules varies by what’s in them. So a standard four-person air car capsule is 1,480,000 zeni, 1,280,000 for the air car itself, and 200,000 zeni for the capsule. If you take something into a Capsule Corp agency, for 200,000 zeni they’ll equip it with a capsule system so that you’ll be able to shrink it into a capsule. For things like houses though, it takes a lot of labor to put the capsule system in, so it costs more.
Namekians
Then Toriyama is asked about Namekians being able to get nourishment from just water. Toriyama says that he thinks the reason Namekians can live on just water is because they have enzymes in their bodies that turn water into nutrients. Incidentally, he says, the plants the Namekians cultivate, the Ajissa, are named after hydrangea plants (ajisai in Japanese), which snails like (they do?). As it happens, Viz actually flat-out called the Ajissa plants “hydrangea plants”.
Saiyan aging
Next Toriyama is asked whether Saiyans are always young. As a fighting race they stay young for a long time in order to maintain their power, but Toriyama explains that their actual lifespan isn’t much different than Earthlings, and they quickly deteriorate after a certain age. Toriyama adds that Saiyan hair style still changes with age, and that Nappa went bald. Like with Earthlings, hair composition various from person to person.
Freeza’s organization
The next question asks how many planets Freeza and co. had, and what their organization was like. Toriyama says he thinks they ruled hundreds of planets, not including the ones they destroyed. The Saiyans were a fighting race who since ancient times had lived a violent and inhuman lifestyle, raiding planets to accumulate wealth. Freeza and co. ruled them by force, as big kingpins. They were all a violent bunch though, so their organization wasn’t like an actual company.
Techniques
Finally, there are two questions on techniques. First, Toriyama is asked which techniques from DB he would most like to try. He says he’d most like to try Bukujutsu and Shunkan-ido, since he’d like to try flying with Bukujutsu and being able to teleport with Shunkan-ido would be convenient. Then Toriyama is asked what kind of technique he would come up with as a new technique for Goku. Toriyama replies that if he had any good idea for one, he thinks he would have already drawn it back when DB was in serialization.
The end.
Source : Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume sorti en 2009
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