Yoshihiro Togashi
Yoshihiro Togashi (Japanese冨 樫 义 博, Togashi Yoshihiro; * April 27, 1966 in Shinjō, Yamagata Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist.
Career
His first recorded Yoshihiro Togashi manga 1986 Tonda Birthday Present. After that he went to Tokyo to pursue his career as a manga artist. In 1987 he won with his manga Buttobi Straight the Tezuka Award of Shōnen Jump magazine. Thus, the publisher Shueisha became aware of him, so he had the opportunity to publish this short story and several other series in the Shōnen Jump. The breakthrough, however, he succeeded only in 1990 with Yu Yu Hakusho, a fantasy manga.
After a few trips to the science fiction genre ( Level E) in 1995, he returned back to Fantasy and since 1998 working on Hunter × Hunter, which also was a huge success. Yoshihiro keeps the deadlines for the weekly Hunter × Hunter often not, which is why it often comes to Pausierungen over several months (the longest to date from February 2006 to October 2007, current as of March 2012 no new releases ).
He has a sister and a younger brother who is also a draftsman. His wife is the illustrator of the manga series Sailor Moon, Naoko Takeuchi.
Works
- Ōkami Nante Kowakunai! (狼 なんて 怖く ない!, 1989, short stories ) Tonda Birthday Present (とんだ バース ディ プレゼント, 1986)
- Ōkami Nante Kowakunai! (狼 なんて 怖く ない!, 1988)
- Occult Tanteidan (1988 )
- Horror Angel ( 1988)
- Buttobi Straight ( 1989)
- Mangaka
- Japanese
- Born in 1966
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