Dragon Ball GT is a non-canonical series of the work of Akira Toriyama. In accordance with Kazenshuuthe author himself mentioned that he was not involved in either the main story or the secondary narrative arcs. But, it did have something to do with the selection of the acronyms GTbut what do these two letters mean?
Just as with “Z”, Akira Toriyama he was also the author of the acronym ‘GT’ for the sequel. In the introduction that comes in the Dragon Box GTpackages that compiled the DVD’s of the saga, says that: ‘in car parlance, GT stands for ‘Gran Turismo’: in other words, a fast, powerful car.’ But, this is not the case in this anime.
The author continues: “In this case, I made GT stand for ‘Grand Touring,’ a grand tour, as the setting of the series was that they would be touring the universe.” It seems that this mangaka wanted to give an overview of the story.
This is not the only explanation to the name of Dragon Ball GTthe GT Perfect File Vol.1, a collector’s magazine of the franchise, mentions that the name could also mean ‘Galaxy Touring’, although this was not mentioned by Akira Toriyama.
Akira Toriyama’s role in Dragon Ball GT
Akira Toriyama explained in the introduction to Dragon Box GT that: “For GT, all I did was come up with the title, design the initial main cast and some of the machines, as well as visuals.” In a way, it’s a good thing that he had so little involvement, since everything he did was easily documented.
In addition to devising the title, Akira Toriyama also drew a preliminary design for the logo of Dragon Ball GTshown on page 82 of the GT Perfect File Vol.2 and was reprinted in Dragon Book included in the Dragon Box GT. His design was essentially the same as the final logo.
To this we must add that Akira Toriyama He also did the designs for Goku, Trunks and Pan for the anime, but, it was a problem because they were not designed in “color”.
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