Nationality Japanese Role Manga artist Name Hiroya Oku | Pseudonym(s) Yahiro Kuon | |
Awards Youth Manga Awards (1988) Movies and TV shows Gantz: Perfect Answer, Gantz, Another Gantz Similar People Shinsuke Sato, Yusuke Watanabe, Kenji Kawai, Tsuyoshi Imai, Hitomi Nabatame |
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Hiroya Oku (奥 浩哉, Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967) is a manga artist who is the creator of Gantz, Zero One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. He is finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
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- Watch hiroya oku drawing inuyashiki characters and win this autograph
- GANTZ entrevista a hiroya oku PARTE 1
- Personal life
- Works
- References
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the pen name Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.
GANTZ - entrevista a hiroya oku - PARTE 1
Personal life
Oku was born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka.
Works
There are two series of Hen; the first, with kanji, ran for 13 volumes—the first three are short story collections, and the remaining ten are a romantic comedy in which both leads are male. The short stories were later repackaged as "Aka" and "Kuro".The second series, 8 volumes, with the title only in romaji, is a romantic comedy in which both leads are women. This series has been adapted into an anime.
There are only three volumes, about a video game tournament. It was not successful, and ended abruptly.
It consists of 37 volumes. The first eight have been adapted into the first 21 episodes of the two seasons of the anime, with the final five episodes consisting of a different story that doesn't follow the manga.
References
Hiroya Oku Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA