Kazuki Takahashi

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Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Anime and manga Template:Nihongo, known professionally as Template:Nihongo, was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2004. The manga spawned a trading card game of the same name, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game of all time.

Early life

Kazuo Takahashi was born in Tokyo on October 4, 1961.<ref name=famigamerNews>Template:Cite web</ref> In his childhood, he drew artwork of manga he enjoyed such as Tiger Mask, Ultraman, Space Battleship Yamato, Mazinger Z, Devilman, and Kamen Rider.<ref name="ygoda">Template:Cite web</ref> He also played tennis in his youth.<ref name="banzai2003">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Disinterested in his studies,<ref name="banzai2003"/><ref name="kazukijumpus">US Shonen Jump Magazine (February 2003). Archived in Taretare 和希の素　語録.[1] Template:Webarchive</ref> Takahashi was shamed by his homeroom teacher as "a poop-making machine", in front of other students, saying that all Takahashi did was "eat, sleep, and poop". Angered by the humiliation, Takahashi decided to become a manga artist.<ref>Template:Cite book - Equivalent to the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! tankobon vol. 28.</ref> In his second year of high school, he also sought to be a background animator of Tezuka Productions. He planned to drop out of school if he passed the recruitment exam, but he failed as his drawing skills were not yet up to industry standard.<ref>Original from Studio Dice blog, now deactivated. Template:Cite tweet</ref> Takahashi gave up on his goal of becoming an animator, instead becoming a designer of corporate logos and banners, which included making designs for pachislot panels.<ref name="kazukijumpus"/><ref name="gmquote">Template:Cite tweet</ref> It was at this time he started submitting his manga to publishers.<ref name="banzai2003"/><ref name="ygoda"/>

Career

In 1981, at the age of 20,<ref name="ygoda"/> Takahashi's one-shot manga Ing! Love Ball, submitted under the pen name "Template:Nihongo", won the Shogakukan New Comic Award and was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in the same year.<ref name=famigamerNews/> His serial debut was in 1986 with Gō-Q-Chōji Ikkiman, an adaptation of the TV sports anime of the same name, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.<ref name=famigamerNews/><ref name="banzai2003"/> In the meantime, Takahashi explained that he experienced extreme poverty as his home lacked electricity and he made thirty-six times of credit card installments in the magazine.<ref name="kazukiquote">Shonen Magazine, year 1986, vol. 19. Archived in Taretare 和希の素　語録.[2] Template:Webarchive</ref>

George Morikawa, author of Hajime no Ippo, described his living place from that time as "dilapidated Showa era wooden apartment that people immediately thought of".<ref name="gmquote"/> Because his early works were unprofitable, Takahashi switched his direction to Shueisha.<ref name="gmquote"/> In 1990, his one-shot Tokiō no Taka was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump.<ref name=natalie>Template:Cite web</ref> Another manga, Tennenshoku Danji Buray, was published in the magazine from 1991 to 1992.<ref name="banzai2003"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1996, Takahashi launched Yu-Gi-Oh! under the pen name "Kazuki Takahashi" in Weekly Shōnen Jump, where it was serialized until 2004.<ref name=natalie2>Template:Cite web</ref> The series became a huge success and has sold more than 40 million copies. It has also received several media adaptations, notably an anime television series and a trading card game developed by Konami,<ref name=natalie2/> which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game in history, with more than 25.1 billion cards sold as of 2011.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Following the end of the original manga's serialization, Takahashi would supervise adaptions made by his assistants, such as Yu-Gi-Oh! R by Akira Itō, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX by Naoyuki Kageyama and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's by Masashi Sato.<ref name=gmquote/><ref name=natalie/> He was also involved in the animation production of Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions.<ref name="ygoda"/><ref name=gmquote/>

In 2013, his one-shot manga Drump was released in Weekly Shōnen Jump.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2015, Takahashi received the Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International for his outstanding contributions to comics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2018, Takahashi published the limited series The Comiq in Weekly Shōnen Jump.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Takahashi also wrote a two-part manga, titled Secret Reverse, for the Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration, which was released on Shōnen Jump+ in September 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Style

Takahashi's early art style was comical Template:Transliteration and influenced by traditional anime. Some illustrators such as Drew Struzan, Alphonse Mucha, and Norman Rockwell had a tremendous impact on Takahashi's later art style. His choices of traditional art tools were g-pen, watercolors and Copic markers, whereas Adobe Photoshop and Painter were the art programs he used during post manga serialization.<ref name="banzai2003"/><ref name="ygoda"/><ref name="kazukijumpus"/>

Personal life

Takahashi enjoyed playing games such as shogi, mahjong, card games, and tabletop role-playing games.<ref name="banzai2003"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Takahashi stated that his favorite manga from other authors included Doraemon and Mataro ga Kuru!! by Fujiko Fujio, Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki, and Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama.<ref name="ygoda"/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He also enjoyed reading American comics<ref name="banzai2003"/> and stated that Hellboy was his favorite American comic book character.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Takahashi was a great fan of wrestling and admired Antonio Inoki.<ref>Jump Ryu vol. 8: Kazuki Takahashi</ref><ref>Shonen Jump 1991 Winter Special: Battle Mind (Template:Url)</ref>

Takahashi's late pet dog, a shiba inu named Template:Nihongo, was the basis for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game monster card Template:Nihongo; the card's artwork was personally drawn by Takahashi.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> Takahashi also enjoyed sea diving and visited Okinawa seaside each July.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite Instagram</ref>

Takahashi occasionally expressed his political views in his art, such as when he posted a drawing on Instagram of Yu-Gi-Oh! characters criticizing Shinzo Abe's government and asking his followers to "vote for justice" in the 2019 House of Councillors election. He later apologized.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Death

On July 6, 2022, Takahashi was found dead in the water Template:Convert off the shore of Nago, Okinawa, by Japan Coast Guard officers following a civilian report from a passing boat.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was found wearing snorkeling gear, and his cause of death was determined to be drowning.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Later reports stated that Takahashi had died in the afternoon of July 4 while assisting in the rescue of three others who were caught in a rip current.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Works

As Hajime Miyabi

As Kazuo Takahashi

As Kazuki Takahashi

  • Template:Nihongo (1996–2004; serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump)
  • Drump (2013; one-shot, published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump)
  • The Comiq (2018; serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump)
  • Secret Reverse (2019; released on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+)

Others

  • Button (2010; released on Studio Dice official website)
3 episodes of anime shorts made by Takahashi.

See also

References

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