Nationality Japanese Name Tetsuo Hara Occupation Manga artist Role Manga artist | Years active 1982–present Website Official webpage Books Fist of the Blue Sky | |
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Movies and TV shows Fist of the North Star, Fist of the North Star 1: Legend of Raoh - Death for Love Similar People Buronson, Akira Kamiya, Toyoo Ashida, Banjo Ginga, Tony Randel | ||
Japan Expo 2013 tetsuo hara
Tetsuo Hara (Japanese: 原 哲夫, Hepburn: Hara Tetsuo, born September 2, 1961) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for drawing the series Fist of the North Star (known as Hokuto no Ken in Japan), which he co-authored with Buronson. He is cousin to comedian Ryo Fukawa.
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- Japan Expo 2013 tetsuo hara
- Disegnando Kenshiro Hokuto no Ken Tetsuo Hara Buronson Kingdomdraw
- Career
- Novel Illustrations
- Other works
- References
Disegnando Kenshiro | Hokuto no Ken Tetsuo Hara, Buronson | Kingdomdraw
Career
A native of Tokyo, Hara attended Hongō Junior and Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist Yoshihiro Takahashi after graduating. As an amateur, he won the first prize of the 33rd Fresh Jump award for his boxing short story Super Challenger. Hara's professional career began with his first published work: Mad Fighter in 1982. His first serialized work in the Weekly Shōnen Jump was the Iron Don Quixote, a motocross manga which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. He achieved fame after the publication of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) in 1983, which he co-created with Buronson and ran for six years in Weekly Jump. His next long-running serial was Hana no Keiji,a period tale loosely based on a novel by Keiichiro Ryu, which was published in Weekly Jump from 1990 to 1993. He would go on to produce several shorter serials and one-shots for Shueisha until departing from the company in 2000.
In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the manga editing company Coamix and would go on to illustrate Sōten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky), a prequel to Hokuto no Ken, which was serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 until the magazine's final issue in 2010. Originally published as a weekly serial, Sōten no Ken was changed to a semi-regular feature after Hara was diagnosed with keratoconus. Despite previously announcing his intentions to retire after completing Sōten no Ken, he would go on to illustrate his current series Ikusa no Ko: The Legend of Nobunaga Oda, published in Monthly Comic Zenon since 2010. An English edition of Ikusa no Ko is concurrently published at the official Silent Manga Audition Community website.
Novel Illustrations
