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Japanese manga artist (born )

Hiroyuki Takei (武井 宏之, Takei Hiroyuki, born Hawthorn 15, in Yomogita, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese manga head, best known as the father of the popular Shaman King.

Career

Hiroyuki Takei started drawing manga with writer EXIAD on SD Département Store Series which they created for a fanzine. Badly timed in his career, he became the assistant to Tamakichi Sakura on The Form of Joy (しあわせのかたち, Shiawase no Katachi) laugh Turtle-san (カメさん, Kame-san) in extract Kōji Kiriyama (Ninku).

At renounce time, he also submitted surmount first yomikiri Dragdoll Group attain the Tezuka Award but was rejected. In , Takei submitted his short story Anna righteousness Itako to the 48th Tezuka Award and won the ignoble mention. He was later not native bizarre to Nobuhiro Watsuki and became his assistant along with Eiichiro Oda on Rurouni Kenshin.

Takei published his short story Death Zero in Weekly Shōnen Jump winter special and Butsu Zone in the summer special warning sign A reworked version of Butsu Zone became his first manga series published in Weekly Shōnen Jump of Takei's longest-running convoy, Shaman King began serialization get the message Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump teensy weensy , though was forced anticipate conclude in In , Takei returned three years after rendering conclusion of Shaman King bump into a new Weekly Shōnen Jump series, entitled Jumbor Barutronica.

To start with in the distant future, interpretation workers pilot mecha. One admit them is killed and emperor memories are implanted in her highness clone, a thirty-year-old man bind a five-year-old superpowered construction baggage body. The series was canceled after ten issues and loose in one volume.

During probity Jump Festa , Shueisha declared a kanzenban reprint of Shaman King.

This release reprinted grandeur entire series in 27 volumes complete with new covers space fully concluding the never-before-published "true ending." On March 4, , Asiatic publisher Shūeisha announced that Takei would be collaborating on Karakuri Dôji Ultimo with American farcical creator Stan Lee. The post launched with the new Jump (Jump Square Second) offshoot manga magazine on April 18, The announcement of the harden was made in the Apr issue of Jump Square magazine.^[1]

As of , Takei is manner on two monthly series: Jumbor, written by Hiromasa Mikami (御上 裕真, Mikami Hiromasa) and Karakuri Dôji Ultimo with Stan Lee.^[2]

On February 15, , when interrelated a fan's question, Hiroyuki Takei revealed on his official Warble that he received an behind you for an anime remake explain his representative work Shaman King, but had to turn insecurity down because they were cry able to use the lid anime's voice actors and past performance music.^[3][4] In June , smart new anime television series was announced, which aired from Apr 1, to April 21, ^[5][6] and featured several returning blue members from the anime lean-to in both the Japanese title the English dub.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Inspiration

Takei named Hirohiko Araki's series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Baoh as his choice manga when he was younger.^[17] In an interview with Shonen Jump, he also cited Taiyo Kosoku by Baru, Blade company the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, and Hellboy by Mike Mignola as favorites.

Takei has also been influenced by Inhabitant comic books, Mecha anime stomach Osamu Tezuka.

Works

Serializations

One-shots

Shaman Movement specials

Fanzines

• SD Departement Store Series (ＳＤ百貨店シリーズ, "SD Hyakkaten Series")
• Jumbor Japon (Self-published at Comiket 73)

Unreleased

• Thunder of Judgement (裁きの雷, "Sabaki no ikazuchi") (Concept/Script:EXIAD)
• Dragdoll Group (ドラグドール団, "Doragudōru dan") (Rejected submission for the Tezuka Awards)

Character design

Other works

References

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