Dragon Ball 8

Dragon Ball #8

by Akira Toriyama

Dragon Ball connaît un succès mondial auprès de plusieurs millions de lecteurs qui ont suivi avec engouement ce manga drôle et novateur réalisé par le brillant Akira Toriyama . C'est pourquoi les Editions Glénat le rééditent dans de gros volumes qui en contiennent tous deux de l'édition précédente. Dragon Ball est bien plus qu'une BD d'action pour enfants, c'est un roman d'apprentissage, c'est le parcours d'un enfant, son cheminement vers l'âge adulte, et son aptitude à devenir le sauveur de l'humanité.Ce huitième volume est particulièrement passionnant puisque nous nous retrouvons le nouveau grand championnat d'arts martiaux. Le tout-puissant a pris l'apparence de Shen pour combattre Démon junior. Ce dernier gagne le match et doit affronter Sangoku. Le duel est titanesque, la lutte sanglante...

Genres: Manga

384 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2002

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.