At this point Goku is still a “human” boy, albeit one with a tail - an element added due to prior rejections over no distinguishing trait for the character. In the third pass - which moved through both pilot and final manuscripts - story details began to take form, as well as the names for Yamcha, Pu’er, and Oolong. When her name was set as “Pinchi” was also around the time I started thinking of making the work an original story. The boy is “Son Goku”, absolutely! The girl is “Pinchi”. Well, I was busy just coming up with the story, so I didn’t have the time to go so far as think of one… However, I had at least come up with names for the characters. Having come this far, it was almost Dragon Ball! Although, even at this point in time, I still hadn’t come up with a title. With that in mind, this is the result of my drawing the characters anew. Mashirito commenting in 1987’s Dragon Ball: Adventure Special, we learn that this draft was rejected at least partially on the basis that there was “no energy” to the main character “dressed as a good little boy!”
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Kazuhiko Torishima, “…On Shaping The Success Of ‘Dragon Ball’…” ( Forbes - read full interview)īy the second pass, the main character had already become a “regular” human (as opposed to an actual monkey), the girl character traveling with him was much closer to the final form of Bulma, and it was here that Toriyama already began to incorporate some science-fiction elements into the otherwise-Chinese-style setting. So if the protagonist in Dragon Ball was a monkey, which was the original plan, then no-one could relate to that. That they see themselves as that character. There needs to be a very strong emotional connection from the reader to the protagonist. The really important thing for boys manga is that you need to make the readers feel like they are connected to the protagonist. Toriyama’s original editor Kazuhiko Torishima also comments (as himself this time!) on this change in his 2016 interview with Forbes: Akira Toriyama, “The Making of Dragon Ball” ( Bird Land Press 15 - read full translation) However, the response from my wife and others wasn’t all that great, so I thought I’d go ahead and revise the characters. I was planning to make both the characters and the story faithful to Journey to the West, after all. Even Goku is an actual monkey in traditional style. Up to this point in time, I had decided that if I were to do a new serial, I was going to do Journey to the West! I think you’ll be able to tell just by looking at the characters, it’s more Journey to the West than Dragon Ball. Mashirito commenting in 1987’s Dragon Ball: Adventure Special, we learn that this draft was rejected for simply being Journey to the West as-is. “Pigsy” came over mostly intact as well, complete with his trademark rake. Toriyama’s design of Son Goku was literally that of the Monkey King himself, complete with the head decoration and staff. Having decided on a young female companion (no doubt shaped by both Dragon Boy and specifically The Adventure of Tongpoo), a western-style girl took the role of Sanzo. In the early stages, Toriyama decided on a somewhat-faithful adaptation of Journey to the West.
When he meets a young lady hiding from a dangerous alien, the two make plans for their escape! Something seems different about Tongpoo, though… Additional Prototype/Draft Worksįollowing his work on Dragon Boy and The Adventure of Tongpoo, Toriyama moved on to drafting what would ultimately become Dragon Ball itself, though it would take several revisions before it truly took shape.
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