A rather interesting example given as to the creative process behind Super: what was in Toriyama’s original manuscript, what changes to it he approved and worked with, and what ideas they added as detail work on their own.
My favorite thing to note is that Toriyama actually didn’t mean for Ultra Instinct to exist, but saw an unresolved story point and opted to give it a visible conclusion.It came to him as he wrote, like back when he worked on the manga. Might explain why I like it as much as I do, it’s him through and through.
This is what I mean when I say not everything is to Toriyama’s credit, or to his fault either.
Some further explanations on the translations from Herms:
(This means yes, Toriyama actually works with both Toei AND Toyotaro, as opposed to “favoring the manga” like so many claim.)
ALSO, I would like to point out: Jiren’s backstory and personality, him being a mean, angry, asshat of a character, his obsession with power, his lack of care for his comrades… was Toriyama. All Toriyama.
Excerpts from the Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide put out in 2009. Has a lot of interesting minutia that the fan artists and fanfic writers will no doubt appreciate, as well as some pretty cool trivia, an explanation of how the DB Cosmos and Freeza’s empire ran, some background on Namekians and the aging process of Saiyans, and what the Dragon balls would feel like to touch.
Slight disclaimer: As of BoG/Super, I’m not entirely sure how much of the Kaioshin explanation still holds up, but I’m also not sure anything said here is contradicted per se. That said, Toriyama’s bound by nothing but what’s in the series, so I suppose he’s entitled to change his mind too.
But again, I think it still checks out, at least mostly.
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 