New Interview with Akira Toriyama

This is a new interview with Akyra for the new DBZ Super Exciting Guide Book ,here it is:


Q. How'd you create Goku?

A. Toriyama says he was watching a lot of Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan KF films at the time. He was also watching Saiyuuki (he does not indicate which of its many versions Chinese OR Japanese) and thought it would be cool to combine them into one. He says the goal of Saiyuuki was to reach Tenjiku (India) which was a kinda hard concept to work with so he decided to change the ultimate goal into the DBalls. zHe notes the vast difference in where the story ended up.

*bleep* me up the ass and call me a bitch. He's going to explain the blonde hair.

Q. Why does Goku get blonde hair when he turns SS?

A. Toriyama says it's really kinda simple. He only uses one assistant (very rare for a mangaka) Mr. Matsuyama. When Goku became stronger Toriyama was looking for a way to express his strength and when they talked it over, they decided that by making his hair blonde, they'd kill two birds with one stone.

1. Matsuyama could save time by not having to fill in Goku's black hair which took long to dry.

2. He would look phsyically very different.

TORIYAMA ADDS!!!!!!! It became well known that SSJ was 50x stronger than the normal Goku but this became a mountain out of a molehill. As the author, he really intended him to just be 10x stronger than he previously was.

WOW.....

3. How did you think of training for characters?

A. He didn't really think of anything too hard. He got a lot of inspiration from things like the training scenes of Drunken Master. He thinks that Roshi's training for proper greetings and study were the most difficult. He notes that he's afraid of heights and that he'd hate to have to go through the Karin Tower training.

4. How did you think up the Kame Hame Ha?

A. First he says that he actually tried a number of poses when he was alone and chose which was the coolest. As for the name, as good DB fans know, he relates the tale of how his wife came up with it jokingly. He says he's frequently asked whether or not he got inspiration from any pro wrestling (K1-ish) stuff. He says while he really likes KF flicks, he really doesn't have any interest in wrestling and such.

His 5 Fav Battles

1. Goku VS Piccolo Daimaou

Reason: He says, honestly, he's forgotten most of the story but this was the first time he took down a truly terrifying enemy. That's why he loves it best. It also helped him determine the flow of the story beyond that point.

2. Chibi Trunks VS Satan

Reason: He wonders if it's okay to say 'Just because I like Mr. Satan a ton and he's in it'. That and it has a nice conclusion.

3. Goku VS Recoom (whatever they call him these days)

Reason: More than it being a duel between two people, Toriyama loves that the feeling that the Goku we all waited so long for finally arrived! He thinks he might get some heat for saying so, but it was for that very scene that he made the Freeza arc to that point, so very long.

4. TIE

Krillin VS Bacterian

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Gotenks VS Evil Buu

Reason: We've heard this many times before but he likes these silly battles more than serious ones. He thinks silly stories are the best.

5. Goku VS Freeza

Reason: If for nothing less the appearance of the SS form and fulfilling his promise to his assistant. He was really pleased with the result.

Q. What's the trick to winning battles [in the DB world]?

A. Toriyama says it all comes down to 'ki', the size of it and the ability to control it. He says it includes several forms: genki, yuuki & shouki (energy, bravery & true character). You can only train your muscles to a certain point, it's 'ki' that carries you beyond that and what helped Goku come closer to being the strongest warrior in the universe.

Q. Who would you like to be friends with [of your characters]? What would you do with them?

A. He says they all have really strong characters and some of them are downright dangerous so he isn't really interested in making friends with any in reality BUT if he had to choose it would be this five:

1. Bulma- Says it's selfish but if he became friends with her she'd probably give him an Air Car and other cool inventions.

2. Gohan- He's not obnoxious, carries himself properly and does his best.

3. Dende- Same reason as Gohan.

4. Roshi- They share perverted interests.

5. Krillin- Because he's probably the character with the most common sense and he'd be easy to get along with."


There you have it.

So it seems that the SSJ Mulitplier stayed 50x for the whole show.







Another interestig thing from that new Book

"So Hujio sent me scans of the Training Ex pages (the "Ex" meaning "extra"). This is divided up into two parts, each two pages long. The first part deals with the training of other characters besides Goku. It doesn't have the same star ratings and graphs for these characters that the section on Goku's training does, but other than that it's set up in the same way. It gives the location and purpose of the training, the master trained under (listed as the trainee themselves in the case of self-training), and divides the training up into different aspects, called "menus". It has Gohan's training in the wilderness (menu 1: surviving on his own, menu 2: sparring with Piccolo), and Vegeta's training in the years between the Cell Games and the 25th Tenkaichi Budoukai (not for the androids, like I said before), with the two menus being training in high gravity and sparring with Trunks, and…that's it. No other characters or their training. Kind of disappointing. I hope they focus more on the other characters in the next volume (it being called "Character Volume" and all).

Some things of interest is that it describes Gohan's training as being based mostly on strengthening and learning to control his ki, while Vegeta's training is described as training his muscles to the limit. And as a result of Vegeta's training, it says he awakened to Super Saiyan 2, so that's another data point in that debate (Daizenshuu 7 also says Vegeta acquired Super Saiyan 2 through training).

The second part deals with Goku's power-ups: Super Saiyan, the Super God Water, and the potara. Again, mostly all stuff we've heard before, recounting the legend of the Super Saiyan and all that. It says Super Saiyan 3 has a calmer heart than Super Saiyan 2, which does seem true. It gives the same old thing about Super Saiyan making Goku fifty times stronger than his normal form. It also says that Super Saiyan 2 has two times the strength of regular Super Saiyan, and that Super Saiyan 3 has four times the strength of Super Saiyan 2, so that's something new.

The entry on the Super God Water explains why that image of an Oozaru appeared when Goku's power awakened: it says that the poison triggered a memory within Goku associating the tremendous power sleeping inside him with the Oozaru (or possibly just that it triggered a memory sleeping inside him associating tremendous power with the Oozaru; I'm not too sure which it means). For the potara, it says that the power-up from merging isn't a sum of the two's battle powers, but rather as tremendous as multiplication."

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This new guide bok is all over the main page of their site and its 100% real.Its already on sale in Japan.

I don't see how that means it is x50 everytime... He just mentioned his fight against Freeza.... The x50 thing is a fan made multiplier anyway... So I still have my reserves as to whether or not this is a real interview, and not just an elaborate hoax made by the guys on Daizex....

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Yeah, it doesn't mean it's 50x every time. He just points out this became a "well-known" thing that people picked up on, since there's no power levels after Frieza.

The interview and information seems pretty legit, but at the end of the day the talk of SSJ power multiplications are just talk. This is coming from a man who just there admitted he doesn't remember much of the story, so he isn't gonna have the exact transformation sums either, just generalisations.

Exactly right.... But I hate the idea that people will pull this interview out to try and prove facts in debates merely because AT mentioned it, when what you said is also true.... So unless he states it with a clear 100% functioning memory of his OLD series, not even everything AT says himself these days may not be 100% accurate, as he has openly admitted being rusty and forgetting many things about DB in general...... And I think it is obviously well known that the DB fandom discusses and debates DB WAY MORE than AT ever put thought into it....

I am not saying AT is a liar and doesn't know what he is talking about, it was his own created series.... All I am suggesting is if he is rusty, then it is not to far fetched to believe his rusty knowledge may not be 100% accurate....

Now had he done all these interviews like months after finishing DB, then his chances of being less rusty and more accurate would be better by logic....

But yeah.... Sorry America, this interview does not prove that it was a x50 increase every time they went SSJ.... And for all we know, may not be 100% fact it was exactly x50 against Freeza.... He merely mentioned the x50 because fans talk about it being x50 because of the Daiz figures, which is fine....... But all AT said was that he meant for it to be a x10 increase, which technically means Goku increased anywhere from 11-50x as any number over 10 is more than a x10 increase for Goku....

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Sorry America, this interview does not prove that it was a x50 increase every time they went SSJ....

It never has been, just a common misinterpration caused by the Daizenshuu's is all...

They list Goku's power, going in to the fight with Frieza at 3 million. Fair enough, no arguments there from me, could easily be true due to plot devices. The Z-Senshi had to keep up with Frieza somehow so Goku got an uber-huge Zenkai boost. But in order for Goku's SSJ to be a 50x boost, his base form would have to be at 3 million still at the point of the transformation, and that's bull. Goku had the tar kicked out of him for an entire manga volume, plus he even stated he was losing strength fast after the 20 fold Kaioken...

It's one of these two:

*Goku's SSJ was not actually at 150 million
*If it was, then the boost he got was OVER 50x base

Well from that interview Akira wanted Goku's increase to be 10x but he gave him a bigger(50x)increase right?


-His favorite fights sucks.

What aboutthe power increase from SSJ TO SSJ2 TO SSJ3

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What aboutthe power increase from SSJ TO SSJ2 TO SSJ3

If anything, I'd say they are plausible. I personally used to believe SSJ2 was twice SSJ power, and SSJ3 was twice SSJ2. Which is also plausible, as long as the power increases are pretty large. And with PL's most likely in the billions by the time SSJ2 and 3 are introduced, the differences are humongous...

doesnt that interview say the SSJ transformation makes you 10x stronger? i thought the 50x was what the fans thought it was.

anyway, i think the 10x is more likely as far as right when he transformed against Freeza, i guess it could be more like 50x by the time Goku fought Cell.

also i think the 10x is multiplying his Kaioken x10 PL