>Nakatsuru: When I met Torishima, he told me that if the opportunity ever came up, it might be interesting to make a manga. So I got the chance to do a sequel to Dr. Slump in V-Jump (under Toriyama's supervision). What I took away from that experience is this: the job of a mangaka is incredibly hard.

>Torishima: On one of our flights, we read a long article about Toriyama. Toriyama said to Nakatsuru: “You’re really good.” And Nakatsuru replied: “Why?”
Because in the manga The Return of Dr. Slump, Nakatsuru used angles that Toriyama never used. Toriyama once said: “A mangaka always draws the angles he knows how to draw. Doing any other kind is pure torture.”
>Mangaka often draw characters seen from the front, rarely from the back. But in animation, the camera moves in all directions, so you frequently see the character from behind or from dynamic angles. Nakatsuru is capable of drawing all sorts of angles that Toriyama avoided.
>If you look at a manga by Nakatsuru, there are far more camera-like angles than in Toriyama’s. And that’s where you really see the difference between an animator and a mangaka.