No: the report does not say Akira Toriyama quit drawing manga because “it just didn’t feel right.” It attributes that phrase to his reported reaction to using a different pen holder. The same report says he was not drawing the Dragon Ball Super manga himself; that narrower point is not evidence that he quit manga drawing altogether.
What “it didn’t feel right” referred to
A ScreenRant report syndicated through IMDb places the remark in a small, practical anecdote: Toriyama reportedly tended to misplace his familiar pen holder, and using another one “just didn’t feel right.” The wording is about the substitute holder, not about drawing manga as a career. Read the ScreenRant report syndicated through IMDb.
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The report says the interview was conducted for the upcoming Sand Land film and that Anime Senpai translated and shared it. The quotation should therefore be treated as wording reported through that chain, not as a statement independently verified here against the original interview.
What the report says about Dragon Ball Super
The report also says Toriyama had not been drawing the Dragon Ball Super manga and describes Toyotarou as taking on drawing responsibility. That describes his role on one manga; it does not establish that he stopped drawing manga altogether, nor does the pen-holder anecdote explain why he was not drawing that series himself.
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Why the headline overstates the anecdote
Putting “it didn’t feel right” next to a claim that Toriyama quit drawing manga invites readers to connect the two. The cited report does not make that connection. Its reported context is a familiar tool, while its separate discussion concerns who was drawing Dragon Ball Super. It does not attribute a decision to quit manga to the pen holder.
The report also does not establish burnout, deadlines, health concerns, or a broader retirement from drawing. Those explanations should not be inferred from this anecdote.
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