Akira Toriyama
Both the publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment and developer of "Dragon Ball FighterZ" Arc System Works marketed Android 21 as being created or designed by Akira Toriyama when the character was first unveiled in promotional and marketing material for "FighterZ" in September 2017. One of the trailers used the wording, "Original character supervised by Akira Toriyama," which was interpreted by Kyle Hilliard from "Game Informer" as an implication that while Toriyama may not have drawn her for the game, he is involved in her visual direction and conception. The developers later clarified in an interview that they came up with