Gregory flies at incredible speeds while glowing and also has considerable power. After managing this, Kaiō will finally train him. The Dragon Ball Z Anime Special guide also provides some additional details for Gregory:Īfter catching Bubbles, for further training he must try to hit Gregory with an extremely heavy hammer, while dodging Gregory, who can freely fly around and attack. Along with several sketches of Gregory, there is also a height chart comparing him to Goku and Kaiō. Toriyama’s memo on Gregory is shown in the first Dragon Ball Z Anime Special, a “mook” (magazine-style book) released by Shueisha in October 1989. Toriyama mentions in his Daizenshuu 3 interview that “during the story when Goku was training at Kaiō- sama‘s place, said they wanted one more character, so I thought up the character of ‘Gregory'”. It is interesting to note that Daizenshuu 10 also mentions that, prior to Toriyama coming up with the title “Dragon Ball Z”, the anime staff had been considering such names as “New Dragon Ball”, “Dragon Ball 2”, “Dragon Ball 90”, “Dragon Ball: Wonder Boy”, and “Dragon Ball: Gohan’s Big Adventure”. Personally I thought that the title was fine the way it was, but the people on the anime staff said they wanted an image change, so I figured “well, this should be OK”. Nakatsuru: Did you imagine anything else besides “Z”? “Z” is the last letter in the alphabet, right? So, at the time I already really wanted to end the series, and so I made the title “Z” to say “Hey, this is the end!” I don’t remember saying a single thing about any energy supplement. I heard a rumor that you added the “Z” to the title because of an energy supplement that had “Z” in its name. In pages 92 and 93 of the TV anime guide Son Goku Densetsu, Toriyama explains the origin of the name: Probably Toriyama’s most notable contribution to the Dragon Ball Z anime series is that he coined the title “Dragon Ball Z” itself. White Dragon Ball Z TV Series The “Z” Title His design is featured on page 67 of Daizenshuu 10, along with a sketch of an older Gyūmaō for the anime staff. The only filler contribution that we know Toriyama made to the original Dragon Ball anime series was his design of the Fire-Eating Bird featured in Dragon Ball episode 150 at the end of the series. When I saw “Night on the Galaxy Railroad”, I said the protagonist had a really good voice, and a very knowledgeable friend of mine told me that it was Mayumi Tanaka- san. After that, I suppose I only designated Mayumi Tanaka- san as the voice of Kuririn. Toriyama: I was present for the selection of the other major roles. Did you choose any of the other characters? Now it’s impossible to separate Goku from Nozawa- san. Whenever that happened, Goku’s voice would be just like Nozawa- san‘s, and I’d think “Geez, she’s good”. From then on, when I was drawing the manga, the characters’ voices would somehow drift up into my mind. Toriyama: I went “Goku has this sort of voice, doesn’t he”. What were your impressions on hearing Goku’s voice during the actual broadcast? When I decided on Goku’s voice, I listened to the voices of five or six candidates, and out of those I decided on Masako Nozawa- san. After that, I listened to the voice actor audition tapes, and decided on the casting. Toriyama: In cases where characters appeared in the anime before they were shown in color in the manga, I sent a response to the animators at Toei through my editor. Were there any jobs you did directly for the “DB” anime? In Daizenshuu 10, for instance, Ryō Horikawa mentions not having to audition to play Vegeta. He also helped select other unspecified major characters, although it appears his selections were only for major characters at the very beginning of the series. Toriyama personally selected Masako Nozawa to voice Son Goku and Mayumi Tanaka to voice Kuririn. Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z TV Series Dragon Ball Z Movies and TV Specials Jump Super Anime Tour Dragon Ball GT Dragon Ball Voice Selection
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