Tetsuo Hara

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Tetsuo Hara at Japan Expo 2013 in France

Tetsuo Hara ( Japanese 原 哲夫 , Hara Tetsuo ; born September 2, 1961 in Shibuya , Tokyo ) is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for Fist of the North Star .

He began his career as an assistant to Yoshihiro Takahashi ( Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin ). At the same time he took lessons at the manga school Kazuo Koikes . In 1982 he was awarded a young talent prize, the 33rd Fresh Jump Award from Shūeisha , for his own manga short story Super Challenger . This was followed by Tetsu no Don Quijote (Eng. "The iron Don Quixote") a manga series in Shūkan Shōnen Jump on the subject of motocross, which was discontinued after only 10 weeks.

Then, based on an idea from his editor Nobuhiko Horie, Hara created the action manga Fist of the North Star . Written by Buronson alias Shō Fumimura, Fist of the North Star appeared in Shūkan Shōnen Jump from 1983 to 1988 . The popularity of Fist of the North Star was instrumental in increasing the circulation of Shūkan Shōnen Jump significantly.

After Fist of the North Star , Hara created numerous other manga, but they did not achieve the same level of popularity by far. Of these, Hana no Keiji , which takes place in the Sengoku period and is based on the life story of the historical personality of the samurai Maeda Toshimasu, is the most extensive with 18 anthologies. These works appeared in Shūkan Shōnen Jump , but in 2000 Hara founded with u. a. Horie, who also quit Shūeisha, started his own company Coamix. With Coamix, Hara started a new manga magazine, Shūkan Comic Bunch . In this he published Sōten no Ken ( Fist of the Blue Sky ), a sequel to Fist of the North Star .

Hara suffers from the eye disease keratoconus , which increasingly affects his drawing work, so that he has to rely on assistants and can no longer complete as many manga pages per day as at the beginning of his career.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Interview with Hara Tetsuo . In: Raijin Comics , November 19, 2003, [1] (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h PrincePrancer: Tetsuo Hara - Gekiga and testosterone in their pure form, a MANNgaka for life! In: PirateBoard , April 20, 2011, [2] .
  3. ↑ Christopher Tordoff: Making a Mangaka: # 7 Tetsuo Hara . In: Silent Manga Audition , June 20, 2018, [3] .
personal data
SURNAME Hara, Tetsuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tetsuo, Hara (full name); 原 哲夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Shibuya , Tokyo