Akira Toriyama is an artist who worked on the Dragon Quest games.
is a Japanese manga and game artist . He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga 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 , Blue Dragon and Chrono Trigger . Dragon Quest . The series is one of the few long-running video game series to have a stable key development team ; scenario writer and game designer Yuji Horii , character designer Akira Toriyama and music composer Koichi Sugiyama have handled their respective roles from the beginning of the series . Dragon Quest (video game) . Manga artist and Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama produced the game 's artwork and Koichi Sugiyama composed its music . Dragon Quest Monsters . The character and monster designs are by Dragon Ball creator , Akira Toriyama .