Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball or Doragon Boru (in Japanese) ,is one of best seller manga by Akira Toriyama.The rest of the story i think i’ve been post in perviously blog post.

The Creator of Dragon Ball Akira Toriyama born in April 5th 1955 at Kiyosu,Prefektur Aichi,Japan.Toriyama sama graduate from design graphic in 1974.

His new debut begin in 1978 with a title Wonder Island hold in weekly Shonen Jump.After that,he made some other manga series like Today’s HighlightIsland and Tomato Girl Detective.

Toriyama became famous when he create a new series named Dr.Slump.This series has been post in Shonen Jump since 1980 until 1985.

Back to Dragon Ball,Toriyama create DragonBall manga since 1984,this series idea adapted from a Ancient China legendary Sun Go Kong with a little bit changing and added some kungfu and science fiction.

Dragon Ball manga got the good responds from the readers,and sells  for over 35 millions copies in Japan.Dragon Ball finally broke the new record as the manga best seller with the sells over 120 millions copies.  

Dragon Ball notonly knowns as Japanese manga but also published in America and some other country in the world..

Toriyama actually has been plan a long time to stop continue DragonBall episodes,but becouse of the supporter supportand good sells,he continuing the Dragon Ball series with the title Dragon Ball GT.

Akira Toriyama last manga is Blue Dragon which adapted from a game.

The Prince Of Tennis (background story)

The Prince of tennis launched in the internet cartoon network named Toonami Jetstream.POT started to show on July 14th 2006.

Beside of anime and manga , POT also making in Game Boy such as Genius Boys Academy (2002) , Aim at the Victory (2002) , 2003 : Cool Blue and Passion Red (2003),2004 : Glorious Gold and Stylish Silver (2004) .

For Nintendo DS game , POT released in  kinda Crystal Drive (2005) , Driving Smash! Side Genius (2007) , Driving Smash! Side King (2008) .

Play station also launched many POT games.
The title like The Prince Of Tennis (2002) , Sweat and Tears (2002) , and as for Playstation 2 such as Smash Hit (2003) , Sweat and Tears 2 (2003) , Prince of Kiss Flame (2003) , Kiss of Prince Ice (2003) , Smash Hit 2 (2003) , Love of Prince Bitter (2004) , Rush and Dream (2004) , Gakuensaino Oji-sama (2005) , Dokidoki Survival - Sanroku no Mystic (2006) , Dokidoki Survival - Umibe no Secret (2007) , and Card Hunter (2007) .

Besides, those POT characters (you can see on the left side of my blog) , also appeared on video game of Shonen Jump , with named Jump Superstars and Jump! Ultimate Stars .

The writter of Prince Of Tennis Takeshi Konomi (born June 26th 1970) claimed that he got the idea to created POT was a sudden flash idea while he was bathing . :D
From the MANGA industry of Japan point of views , Konomi san is one of the most best seller Manga ..



source : Stories behind bestseller Manga
translater/editor : Kaoru