I never dared to think it would ever be animated, so for it to have this kind of quality, it’s already a dream come true. The video I saw still had a lot of unfinished bits, but even then I could see well enough that the quality was extraordinarily high. How did you feel when you saw the current in-progress visuals? To me, anyone who tells me that this is fun is truly a god-tier fan who really “gets” me, I suppose is how I feel. What do you think about its being made into a movie after 23 years? Maybe I’m not cut out to be a professional. I feel that I really ought to have given more thought to the readers, but instead, I let my own preferences take center stage. How do you feel about this work being evaluated as one with your “Toriyama- sensei-ness” packed into the characters, machines, world, and story?Ĭertainly, that might be the case. Since then, I’ve been using it as an excuse for why I hardly ever draw comics anymore. I bought a new one and tried whittling it down here and there as before, but it just didn’t feel quite right. That penholder was one I had whittled down here and there with a knife and sandpaper, and which had worn in perfectly to the shape of my hand through years of use. After I’d finished drawing the whole thing, I lost the wooden penholder I had been using ever since before my professional debut. Thinking back on it now, though, I do feel that, at least in terms of the quality of the art and the vitality of it, the stuff I was drawing around the time of Sand Land was incredible.Īre there any unique charms or characteristics of this work that only you yourself would know, Toriyama- sensei?įor Sand Land, I scanned the inked paper manuscripts into my computer, then using software, I did the blacking and applied tone I made myself to finish it up. Reasonably speaking, my favorite comic should be my most recent one. The truth is that even here, I held back on the fluff, and worked hard to make it a proper, serious story. When I draw comics myself, the contents tend to be rather plain, lightweight fluff, which doesn’t lend itself to finding an audience. (Knowing that COWA! is number one,) are there any parts of Sand Land that you can definitively say are your favorite work? Thinking back on it now, even with it being limited to a single volume’s worth of material, it was quite a feat to have drawn all that myself, without an assistant, in a weekly series. Dragon Ball had ended, and I had tried my hand at a few different short series and one-shots, so I figured I’d draw a work that poured everything of who I was at the time into it, which I intended to be one last hurrah.
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