Inspirations: Dragon Warrior
I woke up early this morning wanting to watch something fun and inspirational while I worked on pages for Goblyn. The second I sat down I instantly started hearing the theme song to Dragon Warrior , the English translated version of the Japanese anime Dragon Quest: Legend of The Hero Abel. You see, while many people in the US site the Dragon Ball series as their introduction to Akira Toriyama’s work, mine was through his work on the original Dragon Quest animated show. It has its moments of utter goofiness, and even terrible localization as a lot of anime was done in the early days of it being brought over to America. (i'm looking at you Saban entertainment) But it has more awesome moments then bad and that’s why it holds a special place in my heat. It was the first time I was exposed to Akira Toriyama’s style of art, and I was instantly drawn to it. I was also drawn to the story structure, which was just like a video game (including calling eac