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Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama’s Manga Inspires New Adventure Game ‘Sand Land’

During this year’s Summer Games Fest, Geoff Keighley hinted at a game featuring characters from a renowned manga artist, and it turned out to be true. Bandai Namco has developed Sand Land, an adventure game that showcases character designs by Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball’s Goku, the art of the Dragon Quest series, the characters of Chrono Trigger, and many other manga titles. Sand Land was originally a brief manga series penned by Toriyama in 2000, but it has now been transformed into a game. (The trailer even…

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