Editing Akira Toriyama (section)

=== Short stories and other projects (1996–2011) ===
A third anime adaptation based on ''Dragon Ball'', entitled ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', began airing in 1996, though this was not based on Toriyama's manga directly. He was involved in some overarching elements, including the name of the series and designs for the main cast.<ref name="GTDragonBox">{{cite book |title=Dragon Ball GT Dragon Box: Dragon Book |publisher=[[Pony Canyon]]|year=2005|page=1|language=ja}}</ref> Toriyama continued drawing manga in this period, predominantly one-shots and short (100–200-page) pieces, including ''[[Cowa!]]'' (1997–1998), ''[[Kajika]]'' (1998), and ''[[Sand Land]]'' (2000). On December 6, 2002, Toriyama made his only promotional appearance in the United States at the launch of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''{{'}}s North American counterpart, ''[[Shonen Jump (magazine)|Shonen Jump]]'', in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Akira Toriyama To Appear at Shonen Jump Launch Party |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-12-02/akira-toriyama-to-appear-at-shonen-jump-launch-party |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=December 2, 2002 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510150117/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-12-02/akira-toriyama-to-appear-at-shonen-jump-launch-party |archive-date=May 10, 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref> Toriyama's ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Sand Land'' were published in the magazine in the first issue, which also included an in-depth interview with him.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shonen Jump No. 1 Contents |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-10-03/shonen-jump-no.1-contents |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=October 3, 2002 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510232756/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-10-03/shonen-jump-no.1-contents |archive-date=May 10, 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref> Toriyama also wrote a short [[self-parody]] of ''Dragon Ball'' entitled ''[[Neko Majin]]'', in the form of eight one-shots released sporadically from 1999 to 2005. The eight chapters were collected into a single volume and published in April 2005.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ネコマジン|url=http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/syousai_put.cgi?isbn_cd=4-08-873825-X|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|language=ja|access-date=March 21, 2014|archive-date=November 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104160750/http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/syousai_put.cgi?isbn_cd=4-08-873825-X}}</ref>

On March 27, 2005, CQ Motors began selling an [[electric car]] designed by Toriyama.<ref name="car">{{cite web |title=Akira Toriyama Car |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-31/akira-toriyama-car |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=January 31, 2005 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925090345/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-31/akira-toriyama-car |archive-date=September 25, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The one-person QVOLT is part of the company's [[Choro-Q]] series of small electric cars, with only 9 being produced. It cost 1,990,000 yen (about $19,000 US), has a top speed of {{convert|30|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} and was available in five colors.<ref name="car"/> Toriyama stated that the car took over a year to design, "but due to my genius mini-model construction skills, I finally arrived at the end of what was a very emotional journey."<ref name="car"/>

He worked on a 2006 one-shot called ''[[Cross Epoch (manga)|Cross Epoch]]'', in cooperation with ''[[One Piece]]'' creator [[Eiichiro Oda]]. The story is a short [[Intercompany crossover|crossover]] that presents characters from both ''Dragon Ball'' and ''One Piece''. Toriyama was the character designer and artist for the 2006 [[Mistwalker]] [[Xbox 360]] exclusive RPG ''[[Blue Dragon (video game)|Blue Dragon]]'', working with [[Hironobu Sakaguchi]] and [[Nobuo Uematsu]], both of whom he had previously worked with on ''Chrono Trigger''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Toriyama to work on Xbox 360 game |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-05-17/toriyama-to-work-on-xbox-360-game |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=May 17, 2005 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110052542/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-05-17/toriyama-to-work-on-xbox-360-game |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the time, Toriyama felt the 2007 [[Blue Dragon (TV series)|''Blue Dragon'' anime]] might potentially be his final work in animation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/gaming/blue-dragon/blue-dragon-toriyamas-final-anime-247955.php|title=Blue Dragon, Toriyama's Final Anime?|author=Brian Ashcraft|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713170411/http://kotaku.com/gaming/blue-dragon/blue-dragon-toriyamas-final-anime-247955.php |archive-date=July 13, 2011|website=Kotaku|date=March 27, 2007}}</ref>

In 2008, he collaborated with [[Masakazu Katsura]], his good friend and creator of ''[[I"s]]'' and ''[[Zetman]]'', for the ''[[Jump Square|Jump SQ]]'' one-shot ''[[Sachie-chan Good!!]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=DB's Toriyama, I's Katsura to Team Up on 1-Shot Manga |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-05/dbs-toriyama-is-katsura-to-team-up-on-1-shot-manga |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=February 5, 2008 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110125352/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-05/dbs-toriyama-is-katsura-to-team-up-on-1-shot-manga |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bokurano's Kitoh to Draw One-Shot Manga in Jump Square |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-03/bokurano-kitoh-to-draw-one-shot-manga-in-jump-square |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=March 3, 2008 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110125020/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-03/bokurano-kitoh-to-draw-one-shot-manga-in-jump-square |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was later published in North America in the free SJ Alpha Yearbook 2013, which was mailed out to annual subscribers of the digital manga magazine ''[[Shonen Jump Alpha]]'' in December 2012. The two worked together again in 2009, for the three-chapter one-shot ''[[Jiya (manga)|Jiya]]'' in ''[[Weekly Young Jump]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon Ball's Toriyama, DNA²'s Katsura to Launch Jiya Manga |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-01/db-toriyama-dna-2-katsura-to-launch-jiya-series |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=December 1, 2009 |access-date=February 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110125536/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-01/db-toriyama-dna-2-katsura-to-launch-jiya-series |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Toriyama was engaged by [[20th Century Fox]] as a creative consultant on ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]'', an American [[Live action|live-action]] film adaptation of ''Dragon Ball''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schilling |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Schilling |title=20th Century Fox to roll with $100m Dragonball |url=https://www.screendaily.com/20th-century-fox-to-roll-with-100m-dragonball/408612.article |work=[[Screen Daily]] |date=March 12, 2002 |access-date=July 9, 2022 |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128143348/https://www.screendaily.com/20th-century-fox-to-roll-with-100m-dragonball/408612.article |url-status=live }}</ref> The film was released in 2009 and failed both critically and financially. Toriyama later stated in 2013 that he had felt the script did not "capture the world or the characteristics" of his series and was "bland" and not interesting, so he cautioned them and gave suggestions for changes. But the Hollywood producers did not heed his advice, "And just as I thought, the result was a movie I cannot call ''Dragon Ball''."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/culture/update/0329/TKY201303290330.html |script-title=ja:新作映画「原作者の意地」 鳥山明さん独占インタビュ |work=[[Asahi Shimbun]] | language=ja |date=March 30, 2013 | access-date=July 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501075658/http://www.asahi.com/culture/update/0329/TKY201303290330.html | archive-date=May 1, 2013 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Ashcraft |first=Brian |url=http://kotaku.com/didnt-like-hollywoods-dragon-ball-movie-well-neithe-465066558|title=Didn't Like Hollywood's Dragon Ball Movie? Well, Neither Did Dragon Ball's Creator|work=[[Kotaku]]|date=April 2, 2013|access-date=July 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903173357/https://kotaku.com/didnt-like-hollywoods-dragon-ball-movie-well-neithe-465066558|archive-date=September 3, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Avex Trax]] commissioned Toriyama to draw a portrait of pop singer [[Ayumi Hamasaki]], and it was printed on the CD of her 2009 single "[[Rule/Sparkle|Rule]]", which was used as the theme song to the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragonball's Toriyama Sketches Ayumi Hamasaki as Goku |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-03/dragonball-toriyama-sketches-ayumi-hamasaki-as-goku |work=[[Anime News Network]] |date=February 3, 2009 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020001407/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-03/dragonball-toriyama-sketches-ayumi-hamasaki-as-goku |archive-date=October 20, 2012 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

Toriyama drew a 2009 manga titled ''Delicious Island's Mr. U'' for [[Anjō, Aichi|Anjō]]'s Rural Society Project, a nonprofit [[environmental organization]] that teaches the importance of agriculture and nature to young children.<ref name="Delicious">{{cite news|url=http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/culture/AJ201304130035|title='Dragon Ball' creator creates manga to raise environmental awareness|newspaper=[[Asahi Shimbun]]|date=April 13, 2013|access-date=June 28, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524104742/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/culture/AJ201304130035|archive-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> They originally asked him to do the illustrations for a pamphlet, but Toriyama liked the project and decided to expand it into a story. It is included in a booklet about [[environmental awareness]] that is distributed by the Anjō city government.<ref name="Delicious"/> As part of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''{{'}}s "Top of the Super Legend" project, a series of six one-shots by famed ''Jump'' artists, Toriyama created ''Kintoki'' for its November 15, 2010, issue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/40552 |script-title=ja:お待ちかね！鳥山明の新作「KINTOKI」がジャンプに掲載 |language=ja |publisher=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]] |date=November 15, 2010 |access-date=January 8, 2020 |archive-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829043800/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/40552 |url-status=live }}</ref> He collaborated with ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' to create a video to raise awareness and support for those affected by the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]] on March 11, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last=Warren |first=Emily |url=http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?manga_and_anime_industries_react_to_earthquake_crisis_16521.aspx |title=Manga and Anime industries react to earthquake crisis |publisher=Asia Pacific Arts |date=March 16, 2011 |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103112550/http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?manga_and_anime_industries_react_to_earthquake_crisis_16521.aspx |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>