30 Years Later, Dragon Ball Just Shared 1 Piece of Akira Toriyama's Missing Work That Will Make You See the Anime In a New Way

Dragon Ballremains one of the most iconic anime and manga franchises on the planet. From humble beginnings in 1984 to a multimedia juggernaut spanning decades, the series has outlived trends, studios, and even its creator, Akira Toriyama, who passed away in early 2024. Yet his imaginative legacy refuses to sit still. In a recent update to the Dragon Ball online archive, fans were given a brief, unexpected look at one of Toriyama’s never-before-seen drawings. What it revealed was not a flashy battle scene or a new transformation. It was something deeper: a rough, conceptual map of Earth, Heaven, and Hell as depicted in Dragon Ball.