Yoshihiro Togashi
Japanese manga artist
Yoshihiro Togashi (Japanese: 冨樫 義博, Hepburn: Togashi Yoshihiro; born April 27, 1966) is a Japanese manga artist. He began drawing manga at an early age and was recognized for his talent by the publishing company Shueisha while attending college. Togashi has authored several different manga series in different genres since the 1980s. He is best known for writing and illustrating YuYu Hakusho (1990–1994) and Hunter × Hunter (1998–present), which are two of the best-selling manga series of all time. Togashi is married to Naoko Takeuchi, the author of Sailor Moon.
Biography
Early life
Born in Shinjō, Yamagata to a family that owned a paper shop, Togashi began drawing manga casually in his first or second year of elementary school. In high school, Togashi joined the fine-arts club, and he later enrolled at Yamagata University, where he studied education in the hope of becoming a teacher. During college, he submitted some of his manga work to Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. In 1986, at age 20, he authored a manga titled Buttobi Straight (ぶっとびストレート, Buttobi Sutorēto) for which he received the Tezuka Award, the most prestigious award for new comic artists in Japan. Another manga by Togashi, titled Jura no Mizuki (ジュラのミヅキ), was an honorable mention in Shueisha's first annual Hop Step Award Selection magazine, published in 1988.
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