Akira Toriyama is an artist.
Akira Toriyama . His next series , Dragon Ball , would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world . Dragon Ball . The initial manga , written and illustrated by Toriyama , was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995 , with the 519 individual chapters collected into 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha .