Japanese manga artist Toriyama Akira — creator of "Dragon Ball ... He made his debut as a manga artist in 1978 with "Wonder Island," a story that ran in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who ... His first published work was Wonder Island in 1978, about a former World War II kamikaze pilot stuck on Wonder Island. The follow-up, Wonder ...

Considering the amount of influence Toriyama had on Dragon Ball Daima before he passed , it would make sense that Akira would be looking to inject some past references into the new anime.

Acclaimed manga artist Akira Toriyama, creator of the global hits ... Toriyama made his debut in 1978 with "Wonder Island" published in Weekly Shonen Jump. The lovably goofy comedy "Dr. Slump ...