it is sort of remarkable, as someone who was not a dragonball diehard or a dragon quest person or a chrono person, how much Toriyama's passing has affected me; because even if i was never way deep into the associated properties, his style was so constitutive of how anime and manga were imagined at the US millennial moment of mainstreaming japanese pop culture, that it is almost like being reminded the law of gravity was just some guy, and people will come into the world learning about it and seeing its effects anywhere and everywhere, but not really feeling its pull in the way we once did