What is the best Akira Toriyama manga?

Gag comedy, desert road trips and the series that rewired shonen all came from the same pen. Some ran for a decade, others fit in a single volume.

1. 1
   Dragon Ball

   Toriyama's 1984-1995 Weekly Shonen Jump epic following Goku from a martial-arts adventure into galaxy-scale battles, one of the best-selling manga ever.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Kajika

   A 1998 short series about a boy cursed with a fox's tail who must save 1,000 lives to lift the spell.
   787pts
3. 3
   Dr. Slump

   The 1980-1984 gag comedy about inventor Senbei Norimaki and his super-strong robot girl Arale that made Toriyama a star and won the Shogakukan Manga Award.
   621pts
4. 4
   Sand Land

   A 2000 one-volume desert adventure in which a demon prince, a sheriff and an old demon hunt for water in a parched kingdom.
   440pts
5. 5
   Neko Majin

   Toriyama's irregularly published 1999-2005 comedy starring a cat-like martial artist that doubles as an affectionate Dragon Ball parody.
   440pts
6. 6
   Cowa!

   A 1997-1998 monster-town adventure about half-vampire Paifu and his friends on a quest to cure a deadly koala flu.
   323pts
7. 7
   Jaco the Galactic Patrolman

   A 2013 Shonen Jump series about an alien patrolman stranded on Earth, written as a prequel to Dragon Ball.
   0pts
8. 8
   Dragon Ball Super

   The 2015 sequel manga with story by Toriyama and art by Toyotarou, continuing Goku's adventures after the defeat of Majin Buu.
   0pts

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