Togashi is good friends with Masashi Kishimoto, the author of the manga series Naruto. Togashi also seems to harbor a great deal of interest in both sports and puzzle games as they are a recurring theme of his two hit manga series. He also likes board-style video games and bowling with his family. "Ghost Actress") and Dawn of the Dead as being his favorites. Togashi is a huge fan of occult and horror genres, he enjoys watching ghost and zombie movies and considers both Joyû-rei (Lit. The manga series resumed again around August, 2011 and is now ongoing again. After the publication of chapter 310, in May 2010, the manga entered a new hiatus again. The first hiatus was due to Togashi falling ill and the longest running hiatus began on Decemand lasted until January 4, 2010. Despite still being an ongoing series, Hunter X Hunter has taken numerous breaks in recent years. The term "hunter" in the manga's lexicon denotes a world recognized explorer, who focuses all their attention in achieving a specific goal, weather it be in the field of history, geography, zoology, cryptology, medicine, economics, art, music, culinary etc. The story of Hunter X Hunter follows Gon Freecss, a young, energetic and kind-hearted child in search of his estranged father, the professional hunter Ging. Final, after the eponymous Greed Island Saga. The last two OVA series lasted since Februto August 18, 2004, covering volume 13 up to 18, having 22 episodes. It also received three OVA series, the first being released since January 17 to April 17, 2002, adapting volume 12 and half of 13. The anime had only 62 episodes and adapted the manga's first 11 volumes. The manga received an anime adaptation, broadcast on Fuji Television and Animax from Octoup to March 31, 2001. It currently has 310 chapters, of which only 290 have been comprised into tankōbon volumes. The series performed very well commercially, having sold 37 million copies of its first 20 volumes in Japan as of June 2007. Togashi's second hit series was Hunter X Hunter (ハンター×ハンター), a fantasy orientated, action-adventure manga which began serialization since 1998 and still ongoing as of 2021 albeit with hiatuses. The story was a science fiction manga, portraying a fantastic universe in which extraterrestrials draw an innocent human into their rather strange affairs. The series is based on off Togashi's interest in horror movies and the occult.Īs of 1995, he created Level E (レベルE), with only three volumes that were published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1995 and ran until 1997. The story of Yu Yu Hakusho follows Yusuke Urameshi, a dead adolescent who is hired by the land of the dead to protect the Human World from malevolent demons, apparitions and even from other human beings with spiritual awareness. Regardless, the anime obtained a great cult following by fans across the world. Togashi received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1994 and an anime adaptation, albeit with less filler chapters adapted into episodes, some character origins and violent scenes were modified. It sold approximately 44 million copies in Japan. It was published every week in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (along with his other manga) lasting since 1990 to 1994, having reached 175 chapters over 19 tankōbon volumes all the way up to its last year. ![]() Togashi became a famous manga artist in 1990, after the major success following the debut of his most popular manga (and later anime) series, Yu Yu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書 Yū Yū Hakusho, lit. An Ill-tempered Cupid in Heaven), ran from 1987 to 1990, which revolved around a young boy befriending a beautiful devil girl. A four volume manga of Togashi's, entitled Ten de Shōwaru Cupid (てんで性悪キューピッド, lit. Weekly Shōnen Jump published some of the stories prior to a tankōbon release in 1989. I'm not afraid of the Wolf), consisting of five short-story comedies. ![]() One of his earliest published manga volumes was Ōkami Nante Kowakunai!! (狼なんて怖くない!!, lit. His professional career began as a manga artist under Shueisha. Afterwards, Togashi authored Jura no Miduki (ジュラのミヅキ) in 1987, becoming an honorable mention in Shueisha's annual Hop Step Award Selection magazine. He authored his first manga work in 1986, at age 20, entitled Buttobi Straight (ぶっとびストレート), for which he received the Tezuka Award, the most prestigious award for new manga artists. It was during his years in college that he submitted some of his first manga to the Shueisha publisher. In high school, Togashi joined the fine arts club and later enrolled at Yamagata University, studying education in hope of becoming a teacher. Togashi was born in the city of Shinjo, Yamagata Prefecture, where he began drawing manga casually during his first two years of elementary school.
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