Only a few weeks after the demise of its creator Akira Toriyama, the world’s first theme park devoted to the “Dragon Ball” universe of comics, motion pictures, and video games is about to be inbuilt Saudi Arabia.

The “Dragon Ball” park, centred all over the world of Son Goku – the younger boy with supernatural martial arts powers on a journey to gather seven magical orbs that elicit a wish-granting dragon – shall be inbuilt Qiddiya, the leisure and tourism challenge exterior the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the Qiddiya Funding Firm and Toei Animation introduced on Friday.

Toriyama, who achieved worldwide success with “Dragon Ball,” died on March 1 at 68, prompting mourning by hundreds of thousands of followers all over the world.

Manga and anime have gotten more and more in style in Saudi the place there are an estimated 13 million followers of the Japanese style and round 85 million throughout the Arab world, in line with Saudi anime manufacturing and distribution firm Manga Productions.

The huge deliberate “Dragon Ball” theme park shall be unfold over greater than 500,000 sq. meters (310,00 sq. miles) and have seven completely different areas recreating numerous iconic locales from the unique collection, akin to Kame Home, Capsule Company, and Beerus’s Planet. Qiddiya is being constructed on a website greater than double the dimensions of Florida’s Disney World. 

The theme park will characteristic 5 state-of-the-art rides as a part of a lineup of greater than 30 sights, in line with a Toei Animation assertion. The plan additionally includes “Dragon Ball” themed inns and eating places.

First printed as a serial in 1984, “Dragon Ball” has grown to turn into one of many best-selling manga collection ever. It’s additionally credited as popularizing the medium of manga throughout the globe, additional bolstered by its numerous anime variations’ enduring viewers in Western nations.