Dragon Boy

The Title of the manga gives the idea that it is related to Toriyama's all time classic series and.. that couldn't be more accurate since it is very much a Dragon Ball prototype story,
here we get to see many of the ideas expressed and not expressed in the og manga, it has a pretty similar vibe to early dragon Ball, specially in aesthetic and humour.

This was created in early 1980s, after Toriyama had already archive significant success with his comedy gag manga dr. slump, when dr slump was nearing it's conclusion, toriyama sought to explore new creative ideas, his editor actually encouraged him to write manga with marshall arts theme since Toriyama was a massive fan of kung fu action films, this endeavour led to creation of dragon boy and eventually the dragon Ball mangas.

i will try to compare this to the original dragon Ball from here.

Plot:
the Story follows Tanton, a boy who grew up in a isolated mountain far from civilization, he is pretty clueless about everything, wether it's outside world, society or women, yeah he is very much a Son Goku prototype, Tangton is given a task by his master go-roshi-sama (a early prototype for master roshi) to return the Princess of war torn Flower kingdom to her home country since the war has ended..

!Dragon Boy Art

Thus begins their great adventure in this ancient chinese inspired sci-fi mystical world.

Characters:
tanton is a Goku prototype that looks like a miniature bruce lee, he is a monster boy who can grow dragon wings and fly with it,
yeah he's a ‘dragon boy’ literally,
but he seems to not like showing his wings to other people (atleast to the princess) maybe cuz of his trauma that his parents abandoned him for those wings or maybe I'm reading to much into it, he is clueless about everything.

Go-roshi-sama the master of tanton, and a father figure to him, he shares parallel's with both roshi and grandpa gohan since he is the one that raised and trained tan ton in the mountains, he travels around in a nimbus like flying cloud, he also gives the protagonist a rather useless Dragon ball (how did he turn this minor gag into major plot point in his next series?).

There's also Puar (well he's not actually puar) a shape shiting demon, who joins the gang in their adventure, he may have gone to the same shapeshifting school as olong and puar, yk the one we never heard about again in the series.

The princess character is shown to be selfish, arrogant, full of herself, she's basically bulma of the story, her and tanton's duo was quite funny, she doesn't seem to mind being naked in front of tanton, probably because of her arrogance, she was actually very fun character..

!Dragon Boy Page

i wish there was more to this than just 2 chapters..