Toriyama's World

Founded in March 2001 by AK of Troy and Gotenks243 (Mike) on GeoCities before moving to its own domain, becoming one of the most dominant scanlation groups on the scene. Not the originator of Naruto scanlation, that credit belongs to MangaScreener, but a major force once it arrived, with a manga portfolio including Naruto, Bleach, Hikaru no Go, Hunter x Hunter, and Fullmetal Alchemist. Dropped its Naruto manga scans when Viz licensed the series in 2002, one of the real honored-the-code moments in scanlation history, and was popular enough that Viz brought TW on as an official affiliate for the launch of Shonen Jump magazine. By its second year the group had expanded into fansubbing too, releasing Naruto anime episodes with a crew that included Aznguy, Jaggedblunt, Ookla, Retrooo, Mike, Mogi, and several others. AK of Troy led the group until 2004. Site activity ceased by 2008. Confirmed via a real branded release title card, Toriyama's World also fansubbed anime directly, including Death Note episode 1, distributed via IRC on Rizon and EnterTheGame.

PRIMARY-SOURCE UPDATE (2026-08-22 research): Archived Toriyama's World pages preserve the group as an active manga scanlation operation, including Fullmetal Alchemist and early Bleach work. AnimeSuki independently documents Toriyama's World anime releases for Naruto beginning in October 2002, a Naisho joint on Bleach beginning in October 2004, and Death Note beginning October 7, 2006. This gives the group a documented bridge from early-web scanlation into the BitTorrent fansub era.