Akira Toriyama (鳥山明) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, and Blue Dragon. Toriyama came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga with his works highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration. He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold 260 million copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and is considered a key work in increasing manga circulation to its peak in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world. In 2019, Toriyama was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to the arts. In October 2024, Toriyama was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
Namek empieza flojo, un juego del gato y el ratón entre tres bandos: los guerreros Z, Vegeta y el ejército de Freezer. Es la presentación de todo este nuevo mundo y nuevos villanos.
Un tomo que no deja respiro, como fue todo el arco de Namek. Hay una persecución sin descanso para hacerse con las Bolas de Dragon del nuevo planeta. Y aunque todos sabemos actualmente quién es Freezer, intentándolo ver con ojos de la publicación original del manga, el personaje resultó muy engañoso, pues no parecía para tanto, más allá del miedo que le tenían sus acólitos.
Por lo demás tenemos un par de batallas interesantes libradas por Vegeta, aunque aquí la acción de combate pasa más a un segundo plano para que los personajes sigan sus estrategias para hacerse con el preciado botín, mientras que nuestros protagonistas van en todo momento a la zaga para mantener el pulso sin concluir.