Takehiko Inoue

Takehiko Inoue () is a author of Manga. It was born the January 12th 1967 in the Préfecture from Kagoshima with the Japan. It is especially known for its manga Slam Dunk .

Biography

During its studies, he plays in the club of Basket-ball of his college without however excelling. Also impassioned drawing, it then decides to become Mangaka. Inoue will also go to the university but will not finish its academic cycle.

Its career really began that in 1988, when it took part in a contest organized by the Shūeisha and where it gained the Prix Tezuka, which rewards the most promising young person mangaka, thanks to Kaede Purple , a manga having for topic the tennis shoe with for main character certain Rukawa Kaede… After this publication, Inoue decides to move in with Tōkyō, where he will work for 10 months as an assistant of the mangaka Tsukasa Hōjō, which worked at this time on City Hunter . In 1989 it launches out in the adventure in solo with Chameleon Jail which is prépublié in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Then, followed Slam Dunk , prépublié to him also in Weekly Shōnen Jump on October 24th of this year. Slam Dunk is its first and still to date, its greater success, sold with more than 110 million volumes only in Japan of 14 years - including 10 Million for Deluxe Edition - that is to say of the 3.5 Million per volume what confers on Slam Dunk the best ratio sale/volume of all times). The manga is even adapted on television in a series of 101 episodes and hundreds of goodies are produced. That allowed the career of Inoue to explode and be one of the most famous mangaka and among best paid of Japan. It was also one of the first authors able to acquire its own rights, thus withdrawing them in Shueisha. It is its own label I.T today. Planning which deals with managing the commercial exploitation of its works. After having finished Slam Dunk , it publishes in 1996 on Internet, Buzzer Beater , manga all colors on the tennis shoe within a framework of science fiction with intergalactic tournaments, inspired of Space Jam . It also publishes some short stories in one shot: Akagasuki (1990), BabyFace (1992), Hang Time (1993), Pierced Earing (1998), Tokaimon (1999). In 1998, it takes part even like character design of a Video game on PlayStation: One one One , a play of tennis shoe obviously.

Since 1999, it publishes, at irregular rate/rhythm, '' Real '', another manga always on the tennis shoe but in a different context: they are handicapped people who play tennis shoe on wheel chairs. Inoue wants to prove that one can appease his passion in spite of his physical problems. Currently it continues to draw the manga '' Vagabond '', started in 1998, rather free adaptation of the novel of Eiji Yoshikawa the stone and the saber , based on the life of most famous of the samurais, Musashi Miyamoto. Manga prépublié every week in the Morning review. N the other hand, he also writes every month an article named “Time Show” on the NBA in the magazine Young Jump. In 2005, it takes part once again in the character design of a Video game, of adventure this time: Lost Odyssey directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Its leisures? He likes to trail in the bookstores. He continues to play tennis shoe with his team, Take-chan, even if its level is always also average, even bad. He likes to look at NBA on television, and its favorite team is that of the Los Angeles Lakers. One can as add as it is married and that his wife is called Miyuki.

Works

Slam Dunk
'' Vagabond ''
'' Real ''
Buzzer Beater

External bonds

Official site of Inoue Takehiko

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