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Japanese game and manga artist Akira Toriyama has an estimated net worth of $45 million. He is best recognized for the manga series Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump. He is also known to be a character designer for the video game series Dragon Quest. In addition to being one of the most popular and highly influential personalities in Japanese manga, Akira Toriyama has been a source of inspiration to many aspiring manga artists.
His works on Dr. Slump earned him the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōjo manga. In Japan alone, the Dr. Slump series sold more than 35 million copies. On the other hand, his Dragon Ball series later emerged to be one of the most successful and popular manga series worldwide. The “second best-selling manga of all time”, Dragon Ball sold over 230 million copies worldwide.
Toriyama Akira was born on April 5, 1955, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He is currently married to Nachi Mikami, with whom he has two children.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
Others |
Sales of the video game Dragon Ball FighterZ (approximately 4 million copies sold) |
$159,800,000 |
|
2019 |
Others |
Sales of the crossover fighting video game Jump Force (approximately 265,214 copies sold) |
$9,080,000 |
|
2019 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the comic book Dragon Ball Super in Japan (approximately 2,238,415 copies sold) |
$18,420,000 |
|
2018 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the Japanese manga magazine V Jump (approximately 56,816,351 copies sold) |
$360,100,000 |
|
2018 |
Others |
Sales of the video game series Dragon Quest (approximately 76 million copies sold) |
$3,800,000,000 |
|
2018 |
Others |
Sales of the video game Dragon Ball Fighter Z as the game's designer of the Android 21 character (approximately 2 million copies sold) |
$2,600,000 |
|
2017 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the comic book Dragon Ball (approximately 279,603,554 copies sold) |
$2,300,000,000 |
|
2017 |
Others |
Sales of the Dragon Quest series as the game's character designer (approximately 71 million copies sold) |
$92,300,000 |
|
2015 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' as the film's screenwriter |
$64,800,000 |
|
2013 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods as the film's screenwriter |
$51,200,000 |
|
2013 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons as the film's illustrator of Sun Wukong for a poster for the film's Japanese release |
$215,000,000 |
|
2012 |
Salary |
Annual salary from manga for the year 2012 |
$19,500,000 |
|
2009 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Rule/Sparkle as the illustrator of Ayumi Hamasaki portrayed as Son Goku (approximately 350 thousand copies sold) |
$455,000 |
|
2008 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the comic book Dr. Slump in Japan (approximately 35 million copies sold) |
$349,650,000 |
|
2008 |
Others |
Sales of the video game Chrono Trigger as the game's character designer (approximately 3.44 million copies sold) |
$4,470,000 |
|
2008 |
Others |
Sales of the role-playing video game Blue Dragon Plus in Japan (approximately 58,848 copies sold) |
$1,790,000 |
|
2007 |
Others |
Sales of the role-playing video game Blue Dragon (approximately 200 thousand copies sold) |
$9,000,000 |
|
2005 |
Sale of Asset |
Selling price of the electric automobile designed by Akira Toriyama |
$19,000 |
|
1996 |
Others |
Sales of the video game Tobal No. 1 as the game's character designer (approximately 650 thousand copies sold) |
$845,000 |
|
1995 |
Others |
Sales of the role-playing video game Chrono Trigger (approximately 2.65 million copies sold) |
$159,080,000 |