[gryson]

What an odd comment. Dragon Ball, which is absolutely huge in Japan, is an original creation of Akira Toriyama. I mean, the top-earning Japanese film of 2018 was Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which sold 3 million+ tickets in Japan. Dragon Ball became the basis for how Jump structured all of its shonen manga. Its impact on the industry is incalculable. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Japanese person under 50 who isn't familiar with Dragon Ball.

Dragon Quest, a video game series that was very popular in Japan in the 1980s, featured character art by Toriyama. I wouldn't exactly call Dragon Quest "Toriyama's work". And while Dragon Quest is very popular among a certain audience, it doesn't have nearly the reach and broad appeal of Dragon Ball.

[xandrius]

Exactly, if you go around Japan, you'd stumble upon so many events with Dragonball characters and Dragonball Super is way more popular than it is overseas right now.

[Jensson]

Dragon Ball is among the highest grossing franchises of all time, Dragon Quest isn't. I don't know why you are trying to say that Dragon Quest is more significant in some way, Dragon Ball is objectively much larger so it makes sense that it is the first thing people think about, because it is so big that even those who aren't anime fans know what it is.

Snide comments about people not knowing as much about this as you do doesn't add any value. Instead of saying "Interesting how the Western / HN / American crowd here is mainly only aware of Dragon Ball. ", just explain how influential and awesome his other works are. That way your comment would have gotten many upvotes, people would have loved it and everything would be much more positive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...