Akira Toriyama Quotes
A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain.
Toriyama, Akira. "Akira Toriyama Super Interview 4th Round." Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 4: World Guide, Shueisha, 9 Oct. 1995, p. 164.
This was 50 years before the invention of the airplane, and more than 100 years before space travel.
He frequently used the expression for the steam engine’s utility in transportation—steamboats and steam railroads. Distance was no longer the commercial and social barrier that it had been. “Space” was used in its 2 dimensional sense which is all that was conceived of by most people at the time.
Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball—his best-known work—and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger and Blue Dragon. Toriyama is regarded as one of the artists that changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.