Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Nominated for an Eisner Award

Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Nominated for an Eisner Award

Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Nominated for an Eisner Award
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Dragon Ball fans are finally getting to see a long-awaited milestone come to pass, as Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has been officially nominated for an Eisner Awardd. It has been nominated in the "Voters Choice" category for the Eisner Award. It  was revealed in the website for San Diego Comic-Con that its acknowledgement but as the saying goes which definitely better late, than never. Here's the blurb that was included  regarding Toriyama's nomination.

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist, game artist, and character designer who created the popular series Dr. Slump that earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award which sold more than 35 million copies in Japan, It adapted into two anime series. His next series, Dragon Ball, was  more popular and has reportedly sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. 

Dragon Ball’s anime adaptations is been credited with boosting anime’s popularity in the West, and Toriyama is regarded as one of the artists who changed the history of manga where it was designed characters for several popular video games, such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon."

 Akria Toriyama's nomination for the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame  be more timely. Dragon Ball has gone through a rapid power-up over the last few years, becoming a billion-dollar earner with the anime series, manga, video games  with wordwide hit movie all propelling the series to new heights of visibility. The 30th anniversary of Dragon Ball Z, the installment of the Purchase that really gave Dragon Ball its crossover success in markets outside of Japan where Toriyama has overlooked by the awards events like the Eisners.