It is no secret when we say that Akira Toriyama draws less and less. Since Dragon Ball ended, everything has been limited to little short stories of a volume or two. Removing Nekomajin, a kind of self-parody dragonbolera, the rest of the sleeves can be counted practically on the fingers of one hand. One of them is Kintoki, a one-shot or short story that the teacher published, back in the year 2000 in the Weekly Shonen Jump.
Kintoki, the boy with the golden eyes and the fortune teller who came from Venus
Kintoki is a manga that takes place at the time when Akira Toriyama began to change his drawing style. Go from the finest, pointy strokes to designs where curves are greatly softened, details are removed, and line thickness is increased. At first, it may seem that Toriyama has become a bit lazy, although the author has always said that Disney is one of his great influences, so in a way it could be considered a logical evolution according to his own aesthetic canons.
But leaving this aside, the manga as such, bears the hallmark of the house everywhere. Toriyama at its best. And this also do not believe that it has to be something good - or bad - necessarily.
I've seen this before somewhere ...Kintoki is the typical short story of Akira Toriyama. For this it has all the necessary elements. On the one hand, we have Toki, a boy from the defunct Aurumoculi clan. On the other, we have Merulusa, a native of Venus. It turns out that the girl gets into trouble, but Toki appears to give her a hand, and voila, we already have Goku and Bulma Toki and Merusula ready to live a fun adventure full of humor and a bit of martial arts.
Akira Toriyama, that great storyteller ...
The design of the characters and the setting have some reminiscences of Dragon Quest, although the protagonist, Toki, reminds me more of a kind of Son Gohan in Super Saiyan 2 with the eyebrows of Super Saiyan 3. Another curious fact regarding the design of characters is the inclusion of a character with a more than reasonable resemblance to a certain Red Ribbon Doctor.
The man on the right reminds me of someone ...In the scarce 30 pages that this short story lasts, we can even see a small fight scene, where we appreciate the art that Akira Toriyama has to choreograph fights and use very dynamic planes and perspectives. He does not know anything fucked up.
In short, a harmless story that leads nowhere, mainly because of its short duration, but that is fun and has all the ingredients for mangaka fans to quench their thirst for new material, at least for a while.
The most effective way to enter the scene: showing up at the last minute and putting on a mean faceAfter this Kintoki, and Nekomajin, the author has just drawn many more manga. We have Sand Land, Cross Epoch, Jiya and the most recent Jako, the latter from 2013. It seems that now he prefers to dedicate himself to writing scripts for Dragon Ball and little else. Kintoki, however, is so open-ended that it invites a continuation, and it could be a story that would really be worth learning more about.
Quietly it could have become another Dragon Ball, if Toriyama was 30 years younger and was not already up to the very pace of work of publishers and mangakas in Japan.
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