A 2 chapter oneshot with hardly any fighting LOL
you realize that there are plenty of action focused oneshots, right?
because every martial arts manga is popular, lol cap
if not for fist, toriyama wouldn't have known how to make a martial arts manga work, because fist set the standard for...
And hardly any fighting just like early DB
And that same editor says he told Toriyama to make it like Fist of the North Star at the same time LOL
Because Fist was no.1, Torishima told Toriyama to make DB more about martial arts. Toriyama had been influenced by Jackie Chan since way before DB...
Dr Slump took about a year to be animated too lol
Dragon Boy wasn't a battle shonen; like early DB it was a road adventure with more gags than fighting. Without Fist, even if DB went on after Pilaf, it would have been canceled because Toriyama would have no idea how to make it popular
It wasn't planned to be a battle manga from the start lol it was supposed to be a road adventure manga with a little action and it would have ended after the Pilaf arc. When readership declined, Toriyama's editor studied Fist of the North Star and told Toriyama to make it like that. So if not...
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