Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue ( Japanese 井上 雄 彦 , Inoue Takehiko ; born January 12, 1967 in Kagoshima Prefecture , Japan) is a Japanese mangaka .
At university he was in the basketball club, which should have an impact on his later work. Before starting his career, he worked as an assistant to Tsukasa Hojo , the illustrator of City Hunter and Cat's Eye . In 1988 he received the 35th Osamu Tezuka Award for Kaede Purple . The manga also made his debut as a professional manga artist and was published in the manga magazine Shōnen Jump . His first series followed a year later with Chameleon Jail , but his breakthrough came in 1990 with Slam Dunk , a manga about basketball. Slam Dunk became a huge success and, alongside Yuu Yuu Hakusho and Dragon Ball, was the reason for the great era of Shōnen Jump magazine in the 1990s. In 1995 he received the 50th Shōgakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category for Slam Dunk .
He is currently working on the samurai epic Vagabond and another basketball manga, Real . He has received awards for both works, including the fourth Media Arts Award , the 25th Kodansha Manga Prize and the sixth Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for Vagabond . Real received the fifth Media Arts Award and was nominated twice for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize.
Works
- Kaede Purple (1988)
- Chameleon Jail (1989)
- Slam Dunk (1990)
- Buzzer Beater (1997)
- Inoue Takehiko Irasuto Shuu (1997, Artbook on Slam Dunk )
- Vagabond (1998)
- Real (1999)
- Lost Odyssey (2007 video game character design)
Web links
- Official homepage (English, Japanese, Chinese)
- Literature by and about Takehiko Inoue in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inoue, Takehiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 井上 雄 彦 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese Mangaka (comic artist) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kagoshima Prefecture |