{"id":14534,"date":"2009-02-03T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2009-02-09T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:29:17","slug":"toriyama-draws-ayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/toriyama-draws-ayu\/","title":{"rendered":"Toriyama Draws Ayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ayu-tori.jpg\" alt=\"Toriyama Draws Ayu\" title=\"Toriyama Draws Ayu\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ayu-tori.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ayu-tori-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the live action Dragonball: Evolution motion picture will use vocalist Ayumi Hamasaki&#8217;s song &#8220;Rule&#8221; as its theme song. The Sankei Newspaper now reveals that Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama has drawn a portrait of Hamasaki wearing Dragonball protagonist Son Goku&#8217;s clothing. The illustration will be used as the picture label on first pressing copies of the &#8220;Rule&#8221; CD &amp; DVD single. Reportedly &#8220;Ayu&#8221; is a big Dragonball fan. This illustration is the first art that Toriyama has created specifically for a pop music product, and Toriyama&#8217;s first portrait of a real person to be used as a commercial product.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Rule&#8221; single will go on sale in Japan on February 25. The Dragonball: Evolution movie opens in Japan on March 13, and in America on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-02-03\/dragonball-toriyama-sketches-ayumi-hamasaki-as-goku\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously reported, the live action Dragonball: Evolution motion picture will use vocalist Ayumi Hamasaki&#8217;s song &#8220;Rule&#8221; as its theme song. The Sankei Newspaper now reveals that Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama has drawn a portrait of Hamasaki wearing Dragonball protagonist Son Goku&#8217;s clothing. The illustration will be used as the picture label on first pressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}