Naho Ooishi
From Dragon Ball Encyclopedia
"I'm getting a vision!" |
"Ooishi-san understands Dragon Ball really well, and she knows so much about it too. I've plump forgot what in Dragon Ball, so she knows about 1,000 times more about it than me! But what I admire more is her considerable artistic strength and skill at manga composition."
— Akira Toriyama, 2009
"I have loved Dragon Ball since I was a child, so even now it feels like such a dream to get to draw it myself. Having Toriyama-sensei personally look at my story boards and offer me advice made me do my very best drawing this manga."
— Naho Ooishi, 2009
Naho Ooishi (オオイシ ナホ, Ooishi Naho) is a Japanese manga illustrator who has created several Dragon Ball-related works for Shueisha starting in 2009.
Biography[edit]
Initially a dōjinshi artist working under the name Gichi, Naho Ooishi was hired by Shueisha in 2009 and debuted her career as an official manga artist under her real name.
Naho Ooishi's first involvement with the Dragon Ball series was making the manga adaptation of Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, which was released on March 21, 2009. In December 2010, she released the first chapter of Dragon Ball SD, a gag manga remake of Dragon Ball serialized in Saikyō Jump.
In the Summer of 2011, Naho Ooishi wrote her first original storyline for the series, Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, a spin-off scenario based on Dragon Ball Heroes in which Bardock turns Super Saiyan for the first time.
Creations[edit]
Series title | Year | Number of chapters | |
Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! | 2009 | 2 | |
Dragon Ball SD | 2010-present | (ongoing) | |
Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock | 2011 | 3 |