An unchallenged patent. That does seem suspicious. You typically have to prove you innovated or invented something, so just being given the patent just because you ask is a bit suspect.
I can think back to dragonball at the very least (and they're probably not even the first) with that capsule corp thing where you just press the button on the ball, throw the ball, and get a vehicle, or a house or whatever after the smoke and bom sound effect clears. And AFAIK, dragonball was early 80s in Japan. I want to say like 83 or 84, if my memory is right.
Toriyama was completely ignorant of manga writing and drawing rules when he got started, so naturally he did whatever he felt like. It's the most prominent case of "first-principles thinking" that I can think of.
An unchallenged patent. That does seem suspicious. You typically have to prove you innovated or invented something, so just being given the patent just because you ask is a bit suspect.
I can think back to dragonball at the very least (and they're probably not even the first) with that capsule corp thing where you just press the button on the ball, throw the ball, and get a vehicle, or a house or whatever after the smoke and bom sound effect clears. And AFAIK, dragonball was early 80s in Japan. I want to say like 83 or 84, if my memory is right.
And THAT was just because Akira Toriyama didn't want to draw all the frames of it coming out.
Turning his laziness to his advantage--as he did countless times.
Toriyama was completely ignorant of manga writing and drawing rules when he got started, so naturally he did whatever he felt like. It's the most prominent case of "first-principles thinking" that I can think of.
I like to call it "achievements in ignorance."
He never learned it was impossible, so he did it.
Tony Jaa learned how to do his incredible moves for his martial arts movies because he had no idea the actors were being pulled up by wires.