Editing Dragon Ball (manga) (section)

====Characters====
When creating a character, his process was to draw their face and body type first, and then the clothes, while thinking if the fighters can move around in them.<ref name="Animation2" /> He said that he does not draw "bad guys" so unscrupulous that it affects readers psychologically. This is not out of concern for others, but because he does not enjoy drawing such things.<ref name="SuperHistory" /> Few of his characters have [[screentone]] because he found it difficult to use. Toriyama was not concerned about consistency with the color of characters' clothes for the occasional color pages, having sometimes used different ones than he had before.<ref name="Illustrations" /> He even specifically asked Torishima to produce as few color pages as possible.<ref name="Chogashu" /> Character names are almost always puns sharing a theme with characters related to them, most commonly food. For example, all Saiyans are named after vegetables, {{Nihongo|''saiya''|サイヤ}} being an [[anagram]] of the [[syllable]]s for {{Nihongo|''yasai''|野菜}} which means vegetable; such as {{Nihongo|[[Kakarrot]]|カカロット|Kakarotto}} taken from {{Nihongo|[[carrot]]|キャロット|kyarotto}}.<ref name="TenkaDen" />

Going against the normal convention that the strongest characters should be the largest in terms of physical size, he designed many of ''Dragon Ball''{{'}}s most powerful characters, including Goku, with small statures.<ref name="SJ interview">{{cite journal|date=November 2007|title=Interview with the Majin! Revisited|journal=[[Shonen Jump (magazine)|Shonen Jump]]|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|volume=5|issue=11|page=388|issn=1545-7818}}</ref> Toriyama explained that he had Goku grow up so that drawing fight scenes would be easier, even though Torishima was against it initially because it was rare to have the main character of a manga series change drastically.<ref name="Chogashu" /> Torishima later referred to this as his own biggest crisis during the series, with Toriyama threatening to end it if Goku could not grow up. The editor said his concerns were unfounded, as readers accepted the change without complaint.<ref name="Shenlong2" />

Having created Piccolo Daimao as the first truly evil villain, he said that his part of the series was the most interesting to draw.<ref name="Story" /> Freeza was created around the time of the [[Japanese asset price bubble|Japanese economic bubble]] and inspired by [[real estate]] [[Speculation|speculators]], who Toriyama called the "worst kind of people".<ref name="Story" /> Yū Kondō, Toriyama's second editor, from the Saiyan arc until the appearance of Perfect Cell, and Fuyuto Takeda, his third editor from Perfect Cell until the end of the series, said that ''Dragon Ball'' hit its peak in popularity during the Freeza arc. In a one-thousand ballot popularity poll held in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', ''Dragon Ball'' received 815 votes.<ref name="Shenlong1">{{Cite journal|year=1995|script-title=ja:神龍通信 第1号|trans-title=Shenlong Communications No. 1|language=ja|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|journal=Dragon Ball 大全集 1: Complete Illustrations [Dragon Ball Complete Works 1: Complete Illustrations]}}</ref> Finding the escalating enemies difficult, Toriyama created the Ginyu Force to add more balance to the manga.<ref name="Story" />

When Toriyama created the Super Saiyan transformation during the Freeza arc, he gave Goku blond hair because it was easier to draw for Toriyama's assistant, who spent a lot of time blacking in Goku's hair. He also gave him piercing eyes, based on Bruce Lee's paralyzing glare.<ref>{{cite news|title=Comic Legends: Why Did Goku's Hair Turn Blonde?|url=https://www.cbr.com/goku-dragon-ball-blonde/|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=January 1, 2018|access-date=November 21, 2019|archive-date=July 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719145451/https://www.cbr.com/goku-dragon-ball-blonde/|url-status=live}}</ref>