Following the tragic passing of Akira Toriyama, close friends and colleagues are revealing more about the health issues that faced the late creator of Dragon Ball.In an interview with Sponichi Annex, comedian Tomohide Ohkawa shared some details about Toriyama that he learned from their 16-year friendship. The interview, broken down in English by Reddit, revealed that Toriyama didn’t suffer from any serious health issues until 2022 but was hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Ohkawa, Toriyama emailed him in April 2023 about the possibility of being hospitalized for a brain tumor. In February 2024, Toriyama received brain surgery for the removal of the tumor. Ohkawa doesn’t know if this event was connected to Toriyama’s death, which occurred on March 1.He continued to sympathize with Toriyama’s health struggles and thanked the manga artist for helping him launch his writing career. “My life as a screenwriter has been greatly improved by the fact that I was included among the screenwriters for Dr. Slump Arale-chan,” Koyama said. “It is also thanks to Dragon Ball that the organization I later formed, ‘Brother Noppo,’ became involved. Mr. Akira Toriyama was one of my greatest benefactors, to whom I can never turn my back. I never imagined that he would pass away before me. […] If I had not met Mr. Toriyama’s works, my life as a screenwriter, and the lives of my students as screenwriters, would have been greatly changed.”
Following the tragic passing of Akira Toriyama, close friends and colleagues are revealing more about the health issues that faced the late creator of Dragon Ball.
In an interview with Sponichi Annex, comedian Tomohide Ohkawa shared some details about Toriyama that he learned from their 16-year friendship. The interview, broken down in English by Reddit, revealed that Toriyama didn’t suffer from any serious health issues until 2022 but was hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Ohkawa, Toriyama emailed him in April 2023 about the possibility of being hospitalized for a brain tumor. In February 2024, Toriyama received brain surgery for the removal of the tumor. Ohkawa doesn’t know if this event was connected to Toriyama’s death, which occurred on March 1.
He continued to sympathize with Toriyama’s health struggles and thanked the manga artist for helping him launch his writing career. “My life as a screenwriter has been greatly improved by the fact that I was included among the screenwriters for Dr. Slump Arale-chan,” Koyama said. “It is also thanks to Dragon Ball that the organization I later formed, ‘Brother Noppo,’ became involved. Mr. Akira Toriyama was one of my greatest benefactors, to whom I can never turn my back. I never imagined that he would pass away before me. […] If I had not met Mr. Toriyama’s works, my life as a screenwriter, and the lives of my students as screenwriters, would have been greatly changed.”
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