>>281117975
He discovered Toriyama and helped make Dragon Ball, cope
And Dragon Ball was a hit long before Goku was an adult, it was a hit in the second arc thanks to Torishima who told Toriyama to introduce tournaments and give Goku a rival aka Krillin.
>Up until the Tenka’ichi Budōkai began, the series hadn’t been all that popular. That’s what Torishima-san had told me. “Your protagonist is rather plain. That’s why it’s not popular.”, he said. Personally, since I was doing a fighting story for this series, I had intentionally made the protagonist’s clothing excessively plain. So this annoyed me, but then I figured it out. “Well, let’s increase its popularity” I thought. When I had designed Goku’s character, the words that best represented him were “I want to become strong”. So I thought I’d bring that to the front. Even during “Dr. Slump”, the tournament-like events such as the Penguin Village Gran Prix or the Mini-Event had been amazingly popular. So I’d simply make the story into a tournament format. From there the Tenka’ichi Budōkai was born. I temporarily withdrew the other characters besides Goku, brought back Kame-Sen’nin, and added Kuririn as a new character. From there it got popular before I knew it.
>>281118045
>blah blah blah samurai slop manga is the greatest i ever read i swear!!
Said no one ever and then Dragon Ball proved to be better anyway.