Yoshihiro Togashi
The Japanese manga artist who created Hunter × Hunter and YuYu Hakusho.
Yoshihiro Togashi is the Japanese manga artist who writes and draws Hunter × Hunter, which has been serialized since 1998. Before it he made YuYu Hakusho (1990 to 1994), and both rank among the best-selling manga ever.
He was born in Shinjō, Yamagata, and started drawing manga while still in elementary school.
Quick Facts
- Born
- 27 April 1966
- Birthplace
- Shinjō, Yamagata, Japan
- Occupation
- Manga artist
- Subject
- Shōnen manga
- Notable works
- YuYu Hakusho
- Level E
- Hunter × Hunter
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Spouse
- Naoko Takeuchi (1999)
- Children
- 2
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Background
Togashi studied education at Yamagata University, hoping to become a teacher. While there he sent work to Shueisha, and in 1986 his manga Buttobi Straight won him the Tezuka Award. An editor from Weekly Shōnen Jump later asked him to move to Tokyo.
After YuYu Hakusho he created the science fiction comedy Level E, which ran from 1995 to 1997. Hunter × Hunter, about Gon Freecss searching for his Hunter father, followed in 1998 and had 84 million copies in circulation by July 2022.
He is married to Naoko Takeuchi, the creator of Sailor Moon, who briefly helped him with screentone on Hunter × Hunter.
Related in Hunter x Hunter
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