Anonymous
8/16/2025, 3:25:19 AM
No.281495947
>Question 10: In 2020, during an interview with Hiroshi Matsuyama, you said there was “nothing to learn from Dragon Ball.” That statement sparked a lot of conversation, could you explain what you meant?
>Torishima: That phrase sparked a lot of talk? How so?
>(Interviewer): People think, on the contrary, that there are values to take from it like kindness, courage, etc.
>Torishima: Toriyama and I both love Tom and Jerry, the American cartoon. It’s very simple: the cat chases the mouse, that’s it. That’s the whole story. You watch it, you laugh, but in the end, you don’t retain anything, you don’t learn anything. In animation, the core principle is “characters + movement.” In a manga, it’s the same: you read it, it’s fun. But in the end, nothing sticks.
>Earlier, I explained that with Toriyama, we were searching for what made something interesting, and eventually we found our answer: “You have to read for fun, and in the end, retain nothing.”
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:09:51 AM
No.281176992
>Question 10: In 2020, during an interview with Hiroshi Matsuyama, you said there was “nothing to learn from Dragon Ball.” That statement sparked a lot of conversation, could you explain what you meant?
>Torishima: That phrase sparked a lot of talk? How so?
>(Interviewer): People think, on the contrary, that there are values to take from it like kindness, courage, etc.
>Torishima: Toriyama and I both love Tom and Jerry, the American cartoon. It’s very simple: the cat chases the mouse, that’s it. That’s the whole story. You watch it, you laugh, but in the end, you don’t retain anything, you don’t learn anything. In animation, the core principle is “characters + movement.” In a manga, it’s the same: you read it, it’s fun. But in the end, nothing sticks.
>Earlier, I explained that with Toriyama, we were searching for what made something interesting, and eventually we found our answer: “You have to read for fun, and in the end, retain nothing.”
