Yoshihiro Togashi

Yoshihiro Togashi is a Japanese manga author, born on 27 April 1966 in Shinjō, Yamagata Prefecture. He won the Tezuka Award in 1986 and began serialising in Weekly Shonen Jump soon afterwards. His fighting series “YuYu Hakusho” ran from 1990 to 1994 across nineteen volumes and received the Shogakukan Manga Award; it was followed by the science-fiction comedy “Level E” (1995-1997). Since 1998 he has been writing and drawing “Hunter × Hunter”, an adventure series whose serialisation has been interrupted many times and which remains unfinished. He has been married to Naoko Takeuchi, the author of “Sailor Moon”, since 1999.