Akira Toriyama Super Database: Who is Akira Toriyama?

• All of the Dragon Quest home computer games (SNES)

• Toraneko's Great Adventure (SNES)

• Chronotrigger (SNES) (Story by Yujii Horii)

• Tobal #1 and #2 (Sony Play Station.)

Jump Anime Comics (JAC)

JACs exist for all of the Dragon Ball, and Dr. Slump movies. Each movie has been followed-up by a color comic version, a few months after its theatrical release. JACs also exist for the Pink and Kennosuke-sama movies. (At some point, I will add specific info for these books to this list.)

Dragon Ball: Complete Illustrations

• To mark the ending of the Dragon Ball manga, Jump publishing decided to release 7 coffee-table book-sized full-color volumes entitled Dragon Ball: Complete Illustrations. Each book features some aspect of Dragon Ball (one book just has artwork and copies of Shonen Jump magazine covers; 2 books are dedicated to the TV series; one book covers the movies and TV specials; and another book describes the events in the manga.
  
  
• The books came out one per month, on the 4th of each month (book 7 came out on Feb. 5, 1996). The books were actually ghost written by other writers, and a lot of the artwork came from existing sources -- the manga, TV episodes, the movies, etc. There is a HUGE amount of information in these books, and they can be used as definitive resources to the entire series (including never-seen-before maps of the worlds where the Dragon Ball story unfolds, and a map of the universe itself.)
  
  

• Two of the "sequel" books are nothing more than reprintings of all the collectors cards that have been released in the past. The third sequel continues where Daizenshuu vol. 5 left off, with Gokuu and Vejiita fusing into Vejit; it contains info on DB movie 4 -- "The Road to Greatest Strength", with reproductions of the illustrations used in the Jump Anime Comics and other misc. items.
  
  

  DB Daizenshuu Appendix 1	Dragon Ball Card Das Perfect File, Part 1 (Shuueisha, 980 yen)
  DB Daizenshuu Appendix 2	Dragon Ball Card Das Perfect File, Part 2 (Shuueisha, 980 yen)
  DB Daizenshuu Appendix 3	TV Animation Part 3 (Shuueisha, August 1996, 980 yen)

Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File

• The Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File book is to DBGT, what the Complete Illustrations books are to DB/DBZ. This is a small paperback, with about 100 pages, most of which are color stills from the TV series. There's some behind-the-scenes stuff (decisions on which characters to use; "image" drawings used to show the animators what the series should feel like), episode summaries, etc. This book is not as complete as the Complete Illustrations are, in that there's no mention of the music CD singles, no mention of the new DBGT game (scheduled for release at the end of the Summer of 1997), and only a sketchy description of the Super #17, and Evil Dragon storylines.
  
  
• We can expect a second "Perfect File" book to come out after the DBGT TV series ends, which will probably be prior to October, 1997.
  
  

• 03/14/97
  Created this file, and have been updating it ever since.