The manga follows Tanjiro, the teen protagonist who trains vigorously to fight against demons-while feeling immense empathy for these creatures who were once human. Writing under the pen name Koyoharu Gotouge, the author published the first chapter of the serialized Demon Slayer in 2016. That changed last year, when the animated film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train logged the biggest opening weekend in Japan’s history and wound up grossing a record-setting $313 million-a surreal achievement that only deepened interest in the mysterious author and illustrator at the franchise’s heart. The franchise will release its latest animated movie, entitled Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, in 2022.For almost two decades, Spirited Away was Japan’s highest-grossing movie of all time. Goku's adventures continue to this day with the on-going Dragon Ball Super manga, which is still written by Toriyama and features art by his successor, Toyotarou. The series' second anime adaptation, Dragon Ball Z, was one of the breakthrough anime series of the 1990s and is credited with helping to popularize anime with mainstream audiences around the world. It is the third best-selling manga series in history, with over 260 million copies in circulation worldwide. In the four decades since, the martial-arts fantasy has since become one of the most successful and influential anime and manga franchises of all time. RELATED: Dragon Ball Debuts New Clothing Collab with Pharrell’s Billionaire Boys Clubĭragon Ball originally premiered in 1984, and was created by Akira Toriyama, who was already an accomplished manga creator at the time, thanks to his comedy series Dr. In addition to pieces created by the Demon Slayer and Naruto creators, the exhibit is also showcasing tribute artwork from One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, Jujutsu Kaisen's Gege Akutami, Black Clover's Yuki Tabata, Assassination Classroom's Yusei Matsui, and Dr. Gotouge and Kishimoto also recently took part in the Bleach EX art exhibit, which is currently being held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of another shonen manga mega-hit, Tite Kubo's Bleach. Previous artists who took part in the project include Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto, Bleach's Tite Kubo, Beelzebub creator Ryuhei Tamura, Kochikame's Osamu Akimoto and Chainsaw Man and Look Back creator Tatsuki Fujimoto. Shueisha has selected 40 other famous manga artists to redraw covers from Toriyama's seminal series, with a new cover being released every month until the anniversary date arrives. The Dragon Ball Super Gallery Project is being conducted to build up hype for the influential shonen manga's upcoming 40th anniversary, which will occur in 2024.

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