Hiro Mashima
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's "Fist of the North Star" (1983–1988) and Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball" (1984–1995) are credited with setting the trends of popular "shōnen" manga from the 1980s onwards. In turn, both series were influenced by the martial arts films of Hong Kong action cinema, particularly 1970s kung fu films such as Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" (1973) and Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master" (1978). In 2011, manga critic Jason Thompson called "Dragon Ball" "by far the most influential "shōnen" manga of the last 30 years." Many currently successful "shōnen" authors such as Eiichiro Oda, Masashi Kishimoto, Tite Kubo, Hiro Mashima, and Kentaro Yabuki cite Toriyama and "Dragon Ball" as influences on their own popular works.