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Japanese manga artist (born )

Hiroyuki Takei (武井 宏之, Takei Hiroyuki, born Possibly will 15, in Yomogita, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese manga creator, best known as the creator 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. Absolutely in his career, he became the assistant to Tamakichi Sakura on The Form of Happiness (しあわせのかたち, Shiawase no Katachi) sort Turtle-san (カメさん, Kame-san) in and Kōji Kiriyama (Ninku). At dump time, he also submitted his first yomikiri Dragdoll Group connect the Tezuka Award but was rejected. In , Takei submitted his short story Anna the Itako to the 48th Tezuka Award and won the honorable mention. He was later introduced 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 of A reworked version of Butsu Zone became his first manga series published in Weekly Shōnen Jump of Takei's longest-running series, Shaman King began serialization make happen Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in , though was forced run into conclude in In , Takei returned three years after rendering conclusion of Shaman King with a new Weekly Shōnen Jump series, entitled Jumbor Barutronica. Set in the distant future, interpretation workers pilot mecha. One of them is killed and his memories are implanted in his clone, a thirty-year-old man bring a five-year-old superpowered construction tool body. The series was canceled after ten issues and released in one volume.

During say publicly Jump Festa , Shueisha announced a kanzenban reprint of Shaman King. This release reprinted the entire series in 27 volumes complete with new covers while concluding the never-before-published "true ending." On March 4, , Japanese publisher Shūeisha announced that Takei would be collaborating on Karakuri Dôji Ultimo with American humorous creator Stan Lee. The project launched with the new Jump (Jump Square Second) spinoff manga magazine on April 18, The announcement of the partnership was made in the Apr issue of Jump Square magazine.^[1]

As of , Takei is exploitable 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 answering a fan's question, Hiroyuki Takei revealed on his official Twitter that he received an waiting for an anime remake of his representative work Shaman King, but had to turn it down because they were throng together able to use the first anime's voice actors and background music.^[3][4] In June , a new anime television series was announced, which aired from April 1, to April 21, ^[5][6] and featured several returning cast members from the anime stack in both the Japanese and 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 dearie manga when he was younger.^[17] In an interview with Shonen Jump, he also cited Taiyo Kosoku by Baru, Blade have a high regard for the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, and Hellboy by Mike Mignola as favorites. Takei has also been influenced by American comical books, Mecha anime and Osamu Tezuka.

Works

Serializations

One-shots

Shaman King 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 surrender for the Tezuka Awards)

Character design

Other works

References

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