• DOI:10.1177/1746847713519386
Corpus ID: 35435730

Folktales and Other References in Toriyama’s Dragon Ball

@article{MnguezLpez2014FolktalesAO,
  title={Folktales and Other References in Toriyama’s Dragon Ball},
  author={X. M{\'i}nguez-L{\'o}pez},
  journal={Animation},
  year={2014},
  volume={9},
  pages={27 - 46}
}

• X. Mínguez-López
• Published 2014
• Art
• Animation

The aim of this article is to show the relationship between Japanese folktales and Japanese anime as a genre, especially how the intertextuality with traditional tales and myth subvert its conventional use. To meet this goal, the author examines Toriyama’s successful Dragon Ball series, which has enjoyed continued popularity right from its first publication in the 1980s. The article analyses the parallelism between Dragon Ball and a classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, its main source… Expand

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