Kentaro Yabuki

Kentaro Yabuki (Japanese矢吹 健 太 朗, Yabuki Kentaro; born February 4, 1980 in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist.

Biography

He won in September 1997 for the short story the Moon Dust Tenkaichi Manga Shō (矢吹 健 太 朗), an award for young cartoonist, to the manga magazine Shōnen Jump bestowed 1996-2003. Through this award, he got the opportunity to subscribe for additional works for Shonen Jump and its sister magazines. His first publication was the short story Yamato Gensōki, which appeared in the Spring 1998 issue of Akamaru Jump magazine. 1999 Yabuki worked as an assistant to Takeshi Obata, when he drew on Hikaru no Go.

It was decided to make the short story Yamato Gensōki to a series. 1999, several chapters of Yamato Gensōki published weekly in Shōnen Jump. Shueisha brought this chapter out in two anthologies.

The breakthrough came with the manga series Black Cat, which evolved from the short story Stray Cat, who Yabuki had published in 1999. The approximately 3700 -page crime story first appeared from 2000 to 2004 in Shōnen Jump, and then in 20 anthologies. This sold in Japan about twelve million times. Black Cat has been implemented as an anime television series and translated into several languages.

From April 2006 to August 2009 was the series Love Trouble. This is in contrast to Black Cat, less focused on action, but is a Romantikomödie.

Works

Manga:

• Yamato Gensōki (邪 马 台 幻想 记), 1998-1999, 2 volumes
• Stray Cat, 1999, One-shot
• Black Cat, 2000-2004, 20 volumes
• Trans Boy, 2004, One-shot
• Love Trouble (To LOVEる, To LOVE- Ru), 2006-2009, 18 volumes, Text: Saki Hasemi
• Futagami Double (フタガミ ☆ ダブル, Futagami Daburu ), 2009, One-shot
• Mayoi Neko Overrun! , 2009-2010, 2 volumes
• Love Trouble Darkness (To LOVEるDarkness, To LOVE- Ru Darkness ), since 2010

Illustrations:

• Kaya Kizaki: Jigen Bakuju (时限 爆 呪), 1999