Yoshihiro Togashi

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Yoshihiro Togashi (冨樫義博 Togashi Yoshihiro, born April 26, 1966 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga author. He is most notable for having created YuYu Hakusho. According to Shonen Jump, Togashi received the Tezuka Award, the most influential comic artist award in Japan. This award has been named after Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy. Togashi is married to Naoko Takeuchi, the creator of Sailor Moon (he mentioned their marriage in volume 5 of Hunter x Hunter)^[1]. As of July 2006, Togashi is on "sick leave" from his current manga, Hunter × Hunter, and has been for several months.

1 List of works
- 1.1 Manga creations
- 1.2 Illustrated books
2 Togashi-ism
3 See Also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] List of works

[edit] Manga creations

Ōkami Nante Kowakunai!! (I'm not afraid of the wolf!)
- Published in 1989, this collection of short stories includes Togashi's debut story, "Tonda Birthday Present", as well as "Buttobi Straight", the winner of the Tezuka prize, "Occult Tanteidan" 1 and 2, (the band of occult detectives), "Horror Angel", and the title work, "Ookami nante kowakunai!!". Each of the stories is an illustration of Togashi's tendency to write about the supernatural. The art style in these is simple and cute.
Ten de Shōwaru Cupid (Wicked Cupid)
- Published in 1989 and running until mid-1990, Ten de Shouwaru Cupid was published in four separate manga tankoubon (volumes). It was Togashi's first attempt to serialize a weekly manga publication. The series (like all of Togashi's other works) was published in Shounen Weekly Jump.
YuYu Hakusho
- This is probably Togashi's most famous series. Yu Yu Hakusho was first published in Shounen Weekly Jump in 1990 and ran until 1994, eventually spanning an impressive 19-volume tankoubon set. It features Yuusuke, a dead boy with an attitude and a high level of spiritual energy; eventually he returns to life and spends his time defeating demons either in tournaments or as a service to the God of the Dead. A team of demons and powerful humans form around him, and aid him in his fight. Yu Yu Hakusho was made into an anime series.
Level E
- "Level E" moves into the realm of science fiction, spinning into a fantastic universe in which extraterrestrials draw an innocent human into their rather strange intrigues. It was first published in Shounen Weekly Jump in 1995, and ran until 1997. It spans three volumes of tankoubon.
Hunter × Hunter
- Beginning in 1998 and still running in Shonen Weekly Jump, it features a return to Togashi's original "cutesy" art style. The main character of HXH is named Gon, a bright-eyed, good-hearted boy with talent, who wishes to become a "Hunter" like his father. "Hunters" are people with fearsome skills, who bend all their formidable attention towards reaching a specific goal. Along the way, Gon picks up friends and enemies, and his world gets extremely complicated.

[edit] Illustrated books

Oboo-nu- to Chiboo-nu- (written by Naoko Takeuchi).
- A children's book drawn for his son's birthday.

[edit] Togashi-ism

(translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article) Since the phenomenal success of Hunter × Hunter, several major changes have been made at the offices of Shonen Jump, specifically to accommodate Yoshihiro Togashi. He receives longer vacations and bigger advances than any of Shonen Jump's other mangaka, and this situation has come to be known as "Togashi-ism".