The game is being developed with Sakaguchi acting as overall supervisor; joining him is Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama. Toriyama is the game's character ... Blue Dragon." Akira Toriyama's art ...

The first game Sakaguchi covered in his short demo was Blue Dragon ... character. Other voices we heard included the high-pitched squeak of Marumaro and the slightly more feminine voice of Kluke.

Awakened Shadow is the third RPG game in Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Blue Dragon series ... made your little work of anime art and passed a brief tutorial your character wakes up in an unfamiliar ...

The protagonist was a newly introduced character ... Kluke, and Jiro. I especially found Torippo’s backstory amusing since it was an homage to Akira Toriyama, the artist behind Blue Dragon.

Blue Dragon seems destined to stay just short of great. The series has seen three releases now, and each one has been a solid game -- but none has quite edged up into that critical must-buy territory.