Mangaka: Lições de Akira Toriyama

by Akira Toriyama

L'auteur de Dragon Ball est certainement le mangaka (dessinateur de manga) le plus célèbre. Dans cet ouvrage de près de 200 pages, le maître lève un coin du voile sur les secrets de son art. Tout y est : le découpage, le cadrage, la personnification, les traits de vitesse, les phylactères, etc. Des dizaines de petits conseils pour éviter de tordre ses "rotring", pour utiliser au mieux les feuilles de trame, ou encore pour encrer proprement.Le seul aspect du talent d'Akira Toriyama qui reste sans explication est son humour incomparable. Chaque leçon est illustrée par un petit personnage drôle et impertinent qui se balade de pages en pages pour attirer l'attention du lecteur sur un point important. Véritable ouvrage de référence, L'Apprenti Mangaka s'adresse non seulement aux jeunes dessinateurs en herbe, mais aussi à tous ceux qui veulent découvrir les secrets de la création artistique.

Genres: Manga, Art, Comics, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1985

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Matthew]

I only read the first 60 pages or so because thats all I could find in English, but I think thats the most important section with Toriyama’s lessons.

It’s carried off with humor and cleverness and brilliant, expressive art. There are several good tips for character design and writing.

Such as:

How to make your character design distinct.

How and why to vary character size.

Why your heroes should have weaknesses.

How to plan a manga story for length.

How to depict female characters depending on age.

Why manga stories need action.

Why characters should have a catch phrase.

How character personality drives manga stories.

[Paula Blanco]

Me gustó! Enseña de una manera muy amistosa varios puntos claves para la creación de un manga, así que sí es muy útil de leer!

[Suellen Almeida]

silly and eventually funny.

[Douglas]

Muito bom! Recomendado para quem almeja entrar no mundo dos mangás e quadrinhos! As dicas são passadas de forma interessante e muito engraçada.