To the average person, May 9 is just another day. To fans of the Dragon Ball universe, it’s more than that: It’s Piccolo Day, the date on which the superpowered alien successfully took over ...

It was sponsored by his family and the Savannah Branch of the NAACP. Piccolo Day was organized not only to pay tribute to a person who dedicated his life to civil rights, but to make sure his legacy ...

Toriyama may indeed love Piccolo enough to keep him around, but absolutely none of that favoritism did him any favors in Dragon Ball DAIMA. At the end of the day, Piccolo was always just there.

Today in The Increasingly Sporadic Works of Toriyama: to celebrate May 9th (Piccolo Day), it’s Toriyama’s rough sketches of the cast for the 23rd tournament, marking the first time he drew ...