The Unusual Situation that Led to the Creation of Dragon Ball

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Have you ever wondered what leads to the creation of your favorite series? Sometimes it’s planning, sometimes it’s divine intervention, sometimes it’s a stroke of luck. The idea of Harry Potter came to author J.K. Rowling while she was riding a train. Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse after his original creation – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit – was stolen right from under his nose. Yu-Gi-Oh! started out as a horror manga that morphed into a battle card manga after three chapters of the series caught the attention of readers who wanted to know what that card game the characters were playing was called.

In the same way, the creation of Dragon Ball is the result of circumstances that managed to come together in a very specific way. Like other examples that were just mentioned, the circumstances were unusual and interesting. What’s crazier though is that if one thing had not happened, then it’s safe to say there would never have been a Dragon Ball to begin with, and the world would have missed out on one of the greatest series to ever be created.

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Before Dragon Ball was created, Akira Toriyama was already an established manga author. What’s more, he wasn’t just an established artist, he was currently working on a hit series called Dr. Slump, a series in which a lonely doctor creates robot children for himself and then must live with the consequences of creating artificial life that isn’t aware of how the world works. The series was funny, witty, and loved by readers. It received an anime that wasn’t exactly a phenomenon, but it got decent ratings and was loved by audiences. Everyone was happy…except for Toriyama himself.

Despite the fact that he had achieved success with Dr.