Tetsuo Hara

Tetsuo Hara () is a draftsman of Manga born the September 2nd 1961 in the area of Tōkyō.

It is reached of a rare ocular deformation, the conical cornea, obliging it to close a eye to draw and to very often take again its drawings to rectify of them the errors due to the deformation of prospect that induces. Thanks to these efforts, he manages to provide drawings carried out particularly well.

History

Its childhood

Very young person, it is attracted by the world of the drawing and decides one beautiful day to become artist. At the beginning this one was hardly interested by the medium of the manga, it found that fixed drawings on a sheet of paper were without interest. With the 9 years age, the young boy already dreamed to be a large organizer in one of the large studios of Japanese animation (in full explosion at the time). He spent his time, in the course of mathematics, to draw characters animated in bottom of his sheets of course and to make them move while turning the pages at high speed.

The young talent was affected with a boarding school during 6 months. It is during this period that during the long afternoons of winter this one started to reading mangas borrowed from his/her comrade of room. He made the discovery of Tensai Bakabo, written by Fujio Akatsuka. The Tetsuo young person was amazed at the way in which the author of this manga made the movements also fluid and realistic of his characters on a simple sheet of paper.

Then begin the epopee of this artist to the dynamic blow of pencil. It makes its beginnings in a small magazine entitled Tenshin Ranman , which it creates with a group of friends to the college, drawn with 30 specimens and printed using a photocopier. In this magazine, it publishes a police little story, Gendai No jinsei, which is inspired in many points by the style very characteristic of Katsuhiro Ōtomo or of Modern Life drawn from an account from Shin' ichi. The same year it decides to send its work to Takao Yaguchi, author of Sampei the fisherman . It then obtains an odd job of assistant during the summer. Finally Yaguchi does without its services by answering him that its style still misses maturity and that it must continue to be exerted.

After this cooking failure, the young man works to survive in a small restaurant which serves as the Rāmen. He then follows the courses of the evening of the prestigious school of mangaka of Kazuo Koike “Lone Wolf” (of which today one of its buildings with Ōsaka specialized in the world of animation in general with a section Computer Graphics, mentors of the majority of entering to the studio Gonzo).

Its beginnings

During the month of November 1981, graduate of the College Hongō, Hara is decided to cross the step and sends his manga Gendai No jinsei to the dominant security company, the Shūeisha (which published inter alia Saint Seiya , Dragon Ball , Cobra , City Hunter , Rokudenashi Blues …). Its work lands in the hands of Buichi Terasawa ( Cobra ), which seems to appreciate the talents of the young man and finds for him a station of assistant at the sides of Yoshihiro Takahashi (author of Ginga - Nagareboshi-gin ) during nearly 2 years.

Hara quickly gives up its station of assistant to prove reliable at the time of the 33e edition of the contest Fresh Jump for young talents organized by Shūeisha, with its manga Super Challenger , dedicated to the universe of boxing. Victorious, it tries the solitary adventure in August 1982 with its first true official title in a special volume of the principal review, Weekly Shōnen Jump, at any beginning of magazine, Mad Fighter , obvious homage to its favorite hero Mad max . From this point of view, Mad Fighter can be regarded as the immediate predecessor of Hokuto No Ken … It is indeed in Mad Fighter that it works out several topics which will take their full measure to his masterpiece. However, success was sulky this early work. Follows then the sympathetic nerve history of Crash Hero , published in number 43 of 1982 of the Weekly Shōnen Jump, kind of prolog with Iron No Gift Quichote .

First manga of Tetsuo Hara, Iron No Gift Quichote tells the stories of a young pilot hero of moto-cross, a kind of Michel Vaillant version country of the rising sun.

Its success

The author nevertheless is well decided to begin another history on an introductory episode from his new work, Hokuto No Ken . Two complete stories, published in an special issue of Shōnen Jump in April 1983, report the adolescence of Kenshirō Kasumi before the holocaust. They are very appreciated by the public and Shūeisha, and this one decides to let to him develop the history by associating the scenario writer Buronson to him. Success is fulgurating. Quickly adapted in one animates on October 11th, 1984, the series meets success on all the formats. The adventure ends in 1989, and the young artist separates from his scenario writer. Cyber Blue , its manga according to scenarized by Rūichi Mitsui according to a work of BOB, is also a very large success, but essuie of very critical sharp in particular because of its violent ultra character. It gives up it at the end of four volumes to devote itself to its second great success, Hana No Keiji , according to the work of Keiichirō Ryū, a famous Japanese novelist, who published especially novels based on his design revolutionary of the Japanese history, and scenarized by Me Asō. During nearly ten years, Tetsuo Hara will be based on works of Ryū to create its mangas (in addition to Hana No Keiji , there was Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu, scenarized by Shō Aikawa, and Sakon Sengoku Fūroku, scenarized by Shingo Nihashi).

Its return

It is in 2001, after some One-shot S, that Tetsuo Hara, from now on 40 years old, finds Buronson (which has only one role limited to the supervision of the scenario) for a Préquelle very awaited from Hokuto No Ken: Sōten No Ken (the Fist of the Blue sky), prépubliée in monthly magazine lately created Bunch Comics. It is the first time, since Hana No Keiji , that Hara crosses the course of 6 volumes. Success is with go.

Finally, its continuous career of our day, with Sōten No Ken , which is with volume 12 (and available on our premises gràce to Génération Comics), but also with Hana No Keiji , for which it deals each month with the jacquette new edition color.

He also became a business man since he repurchased the rights of his series and that he opened (last July) with its precede editor Nobuhiko Horie (current president of COAMIX) a Studio by animation. North Star Picture will adapt Angel Heart (continuation of City hunter) of his/her friend Tsukasa Hōjō (whose editor is COAMIX) but especially of a series of OAVs and films on Hokuto No Ken as from spring 2006.

Its other activities

However the career of Tetsuo was not only summarized in the world of the cartoon, this one in particular was illustrator for various novels, illustrator and designer of characters of video games or author of some “Stories Shorts” for its editor of always, Shūeisha.

It began these Stories Shorts in numbers 5 and 6 of the weekly magazine Shōnen Jump in 1993, in a history entitled Shokugyō Kyōshu ~Zhi Ye Xiong Shō~ (Profession assassin ~Zhi Ye Xiong Shō~), a news published in 2 times 15 pages on a strange hired killer Hong-Kongais exit of an original history of Arimasu Ōsawa. While continuing its usual work of mangaka, it scénarisa and drew Kaen No shō (ignited Kaen) Story Shorts of 55 pages appeared in Spring Special of Shūeisha which put at work all the large artists of the house the history tells the adventures of Shō, an young man disciple of a large Chinese Master whose parents were assassinated…

Little time after, in number 43 of Shōnen Jump of 1996, it launches another little story which is clean for him: Kiseki moyuru toki (moment when the pyroxene ignites), a history of 47 pages on a prince of which the beloved at summer kidnapped by the Master of the moon. This history is as Mad Fighter can the being for Hokuto No Ken , a prolog with Aterui The Second. Its last Story Shorts go back to it is called Chase ~tsuiseki~ (Track race), a military history whose scenario is of certain a Yoshiyuki Okamura which is not other than Buronson… The 2 men found themselves in 1997 for this short history of 40 pages published in number 2 of Manga-Allman.

The career of Tetsuo does not stop there for as much, since he also worked on 2 novels, the first is a series of 4 volumes Kō ryū No mimi (the ear of the yellow dragon) published of 1991 to 1993 in Jump Novels of Shūeisha. As for its first Story Shorts, Tetsuo Hara was combined in Arimasu Ōsawa for the scenario of this history, that of a secret agent sent in India to inquire into a ladle business of Opium.

The second, is much more personal to him (although it once again joined Buronson), since it is about Jubaku No machi , a novel on Hokuto No Ken as an ultimate conclusion with famous the saga, published in 1996 in Shūeisha also. In 2003, the Studio ACGT adapted the contents into 3 of it OAV S, little appreciated fans.

Lastly, Tetsuo Hara also worked in 1993 for the play Muscle To bend Capcom. It designed the various illustrations of the play but also the design of the characters.

Works

Iron No Gift Quichote (1982-1983), 2 volumes.
Hokuto No Ken (1983-1988), 27 volumes, scenario of Buronson.
Cyber Blue (1988-1989), 4 volumes, scenario of Rūichi Mitsui according to a work of BOB.
Hana No Keiji (1990-1993), 18 volumes, according to Keiichirô Ryū, scenario of Me Asō.
Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu (94 -95), 6 volumes, according to Keiichirō Ryū, scenario of Shō Aikawa.
Takeki Ryūsei (1995-1996), 3 volumes.
Sakon Sengoku Fūnroku (1997-2000), 6 volumes, according to Keiichirô Ryū, scenario of Shingo Nihashi.
Hyudora (1997-1998), 1 volume, scenario of Tadashi Ikuta.
Kōken Ryoku O Ryōsōsakan Nakabō Rintarō (1998-2000), 2 volumes, supervised by Makoto Sakata.
Aterui The Second (2000), 1 volume, scenarized by Katsuhiko Takahashi.
Ken - Fist off the Blue Sky (2001-?), supervised by Buronson. 15 volumes for the moment.

Source

This article contains whole or part of a document coming from the French-speaking site Site dedicated to Tetsuo Hara and its works

External bonds

Official site of Testuo Hara

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