Hiroyuki Takei

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Hiroyuki Takei

is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....
manga

Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
author.

History
Hiroyuki Takei was born at Yomogita in Aomori Prefecture, located in northern Honshu.

His beginning was marked by the manga series SD Hyakkaten which he created for a fanzine. He grew successful and became the assistant to famous mangaka
Mangaka

is the Japanese language word for a comic book creator or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese person....
like Nobuhiro Watsuki

Nobuhiro Watsuki

is a Japanese people mangaka, best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin. He once worked as an assistant mangaka for his favorite author Takeshi Obata....
(Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, formerly known as the who becomes a wanderer to protect the people of Japan....
) and Tamakichi Sakura (Sabaki no kaminari). It was with his first manga series "Butsu Zone
Butsu Zone

is a manga by Hiroyuki Takei, serialized in three tankobon.The series highlights the adventures of Senju who has to find and protect Sachi, an incarnation of the Buddhahood Maitreya....
", published in Weekly Shonen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump

is a weekly shonen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating....
, that his career truly took off.

Takei is a friend of Watsuki and mangaka Eiichiro Oda

Eiichiro Oda

is a Japanese people mangaka, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece....
(One Piece
One Piece

is a Japanese shonen manga written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, that has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since August 4, 1997....
), who was also an assistant of Watsuki.

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is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan....
manga

Manga

History

Hiroyuki Takei was born at Yomogita in Aomori Prefecture, located in northern Honshu.

His beginning was marked by the manga series SD Hyakkaten which he created for a fanzine. He grew successful and became the assistant to famous mangaka
Mangaka

is the Japanese language word for a comic book creator or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese person....
like Nobuhiro Watsuki

Nobuhiro Watsuki

Eiichiro Oda

Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese people Mangaka, animator, movie producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion....
prize with his manga Doragu Doll Dan, he actually ended up winning the award because of the one-shot Itako no Anna.

One of his influences was Hirohiko Araki

Hirohiko Araki

, born June 7 1960 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan is a manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.Araki is best known for his long running series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Weekly Shonen Jump starting in 1987....
of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Every main character's name in each part can be read as JoJo. The manga, published by Shueisha in their magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, started in 1987 and went on to 2004....
fame. His most recent and longest running work is Shaman King
Shaman King

, also known as "Mankin", is a manga and anime series by Hiroyuki Takei. The manga ended prematurely in Japan with 32 volumes in total. The anime concluded its run with a total of 64 episodes....
, published in Weekly Shonen Jump

Weekly Shonen Jump

is a weekly shonen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating....
.

In 2007, Takei returned three years after the conclusion of Shaman King with a new Weekly Shonen Jump series; Juki Ningen Jumbor. Set in the distant future, construction workers pilot mecha

Mecha

Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element....
. One of them is killed and his memories are implanted in his clone - a thirty year old man in a five year old superpowered construction tool body. The series was canceled after ten issues and released in one volume with thirty five pages of maps, setting and character data, as well as extensive liner notes between the chapters.

On March 4, 2008, Japanese publisher Shueisha

Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan....
announced that Takei would be collaborating on Karakuridôji Ultimo
Karakuridôji Ultimo

, commonly referred to as Ultimo, is a manga series created by Hiroyuki Takei and Stan Lee . The pilot was inked in by Daigo and painted by Bob, the other art staff are, Ka-Toon, Akira Yuki, Killer-R, Reki, and Crazy-Lili....
with American comic creator Stan Lee

Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an United States comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.Lee is considered the father of comic books....
. The project is set to launch with the new Jump SQ.II (Jump Square Second) spinoff manga magazine on April 18, 2008. The announcement of the partnership was made in the April issue of Jump Square magazine.

Bibliography

SD Hyakkaten
Sabaki no Ikazuchi
Doragu Doll Dan
Itako no Anna
Death Zero
Butsu Zone
Butsu Zone

is a manga by Hiroyuki Takei, serialized in three tankobon.The series highlights the adventures of Senju who has to find and protect Sachi, an incarnation of the Buddhahood Maitreya....
Shaman King
Shaman King

, also known as "Mankin", is a manga and anime series by Hiroyuki Takei. The manga ended prematurely in Japan with 32 volumes in total. The anime concluded its run with a total of 64 episodes....
Funbari no Uta
Funbari no Uta

Funbari no Uta is a series of short stories written by Hiroyuki Takei relating to his manga series Shaman King; and a furyoku-inducing battle anthem-turned-jingle-turned-enka created by the Shaman King character, Faust VIII....
Mappa Douji
Mappa Douji

Mappa-Douji - Is a manga created by Japanese people mangaka Hiroyuki Takei. It is one chapter long and is the tale of Hao Asakura, a Shaman King character, as a child 1000 years ago....
Jumbor Barutronica
Jumbor Barutronica

is a mecha manga series by Hiroyuki Takei, the author of Shaman King. It was serialized by Shueisha in the manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump between issues 3 and 14 of 2007, and collected in a single tankobon....
Ultimo (manga)