Here's a little French exerpt I found showcasing Akira Toriyama's feeling on the whole cannon between anime, and manga.
12: From time to time, il would happen that people whom I didn’t even know were approaching me about the anime. Things were often said like: “Oh jeeze, between the manga and the anime, you must never take any time to let yourself breathe!". In reality, I had hardly worked at all on the anime, I had put confidence in my collaborators. I had enough to do just with the manga. I didn’t want to work myself to death, you know...
Toriyama: I want to live until I’m 100 years old!
13: For example, drawing an image of a movement in a manga is relatively simple, but to animate this image, you had to decompose the movement and draw all the intermediary movements. That demands a colossal amount of work. (Ok, the example of Kame-sennin might not be the most appropriate...)
14: Of course, those who have read Dragon Ball have noticed that certain stories which are found in the anime didn’t existe in the manga.
Oolong: What’s this? I never saw that in the manga....
ENstraight As one adventure in the manga corresponds to about 10 minutes of animation, and since one episode comprises on average 30 minutes, the entire series of Dragon Ball would have passed by very quickly. The team of animators therefore had to insert some original stories. I admire what they have done, that’s a hell of a job!
Toriyama: Dragon Ball, it’s the anime and the manga
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12: From time to time, il would happen that people whom I didn’t even know were approaching me about the anime. Things were often said like: “Oh jeeze, between the manga and the anime, you must never take any time to let yourself breathe!". In reality, I had hardly worked at all on the anime, I had put confidence in my collaborators. I had enough to do just with the manga. I didn’t want to work myself to death, you know...
Toriyama: I want to live until I’m 100 years old!
13: For example, drawing an image of a movement in a manga is relatively simple, but to animate this image, you had to decompose the movement and draw all the intermediary movements. That demands a colossal amount of work. (Ok, the example of Kame-sennin might not be the most appropriate...)
14: Of course, those who have read Dragon Ball have noticed that certain stories which are found in the anime didn’t existe in the manga.
Oolong: What’s this? I never saw that in the manga....
ENstraight As one adventure in the manga corresponds to about 10 minutes of animation, and since one episode comprises on average 30 minutes, the entire series of Dragon Ball would have passed by very quickly. The team of animators therefore had to insert some original stories. I admire what they have done, that’s a hell of a job!
Toriyama: Dragon Ball, it’s the anime and the manga
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