Yuzo Takada
Yuzo Takada (高田裕三, Takada Yūzō, born March 21, 1963 in Edogawa, Tokyo) is the pseudonym of Yūji Takada (高田裕次, Takada Yūji), a popular Japanese manga artist. He worked as an assistant for manga artist Fujihiko Hosono before starting his career as an original author. His first work appeared in November 1983 in Young Magazine, and his first series Tokonatsu Bank started in that publication in January 1984 and ran until February 1985.
Takada is better known for his supernatural manga 3x3 Eyes and Blue Seed, and for the comedy-action manga All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku. The anime versions of these series all star voice-actress Megumi Hayashibara. In 1993, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for 3x3 Eyes.[1]
Takada has also worked on character design and illustration for video games, including Enix's Just Breed.
Selected bibliography
- Shuushoku Beginner (1983)
- Endless Summer Bank aka Tokonatsu Bank (January 2, 1984 – February 18, 1985)
- Tour Conductor, Nikumori (March 3, 1985 – September 1, 1986)
- Sportion KIDs (November 17, 1986 – November 2, 1987)
- Every Day is Sunday (November 13, 1987 – February 10, 1989)
- 3x3 Eyes (December 14, 1987 – 2002)
- Toritsuki-kun (February 1989 – March 1991)
- All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (1990)
- Blue Seed (1992–1995)
- The New All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (1997–1998)
- Genzou Hitogata Kiwa (1998–2004)
- Tsukumo Nemuru Shizume (2004–2006)
- Little Jumper (2004–August 2008)
- Ultraman: The First (2004–2008)
- 3x3 Eyes Gaiden (2009–2010)
- Captain Alice (2009–2013)
- Lunfor (2013)
- 3x3 Eyes: Genjuu no Mori no Sounansha (2014–2016)
- 3x3 Eyes: Kiseki no Yami no Keiyakusha (2016–ongoing)
- Mugou no Schnell Gear: Chikyuugai Kisouka AI (2019–ongoing)
References
- ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
External links
- Yuzo Takada at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Schally's Yuzo Takada Page
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- Black Jack and The Three-Eyed One by Osamu Tezuka (1977)
- Football Hawk by Noboru Kawasaki (1978)
- Tonda Couple by Kimio Yanagisawa (1979)
- Susano Oh by Gō Nagai (1980)
- Sanshirō of 1, 2 by Makoto Kobayashi (1981)
- Gakuto Retsuden by Motoka Murakami (1982)
- The Kabocha Wine by Mitsuru Miura (1983)
- Bats & Terry by Yasuichi Ōshima (1984)
- Bari Bari Densetsu by Shuichi Shigeno (1985)
- Kōtarō Makaritōru! by Tatsuya Hiruta (1986)
- Ironfist Chinmi by Takeshi Maekawa (1987)
- Mister Ajikko by Daisuke Terasawa (1988)
- Meimon! Daisan Yakyūbu by Toshiyuki Mutsu (1989)
- Shura no Mon by Masatoshi Kawahara (1990)
- Hajime no Ippo by George Morikawa (1991)
- Kaze Hikaru: Koshien by Sanbachi Kawa and Tarō Nami (1992)
- 3×3 Eyes by Yuzo Takada (1993)
- Shoot! by Tsukasa Ōshima (1994)
- The Kindaichi Case Files by Yōzaburō Kanari and Fumiya Satō (1995)
- Shōta no Sushi by Daisuke Terasawa (1996)
- Ryūrōden by Yoshito Yamahara (1997)
- Great Teacher Onizuka by Tooru Fujisawa (1998)
- Chameleon by Toshiyuki Mutsu (1999)
- Shōbushi Densetsu Tetsuya by Fūmei Sai and Yasushi Hoshino (2000)
- Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu (2001)
- Cromartie High School by Eiji Nonaka and Beck by Harold Sakuishi (2002)
- Kunimitsu no Matsuri, by Yūma Andō and Masashi Asaki (2003)
- Shana Ō Yoshitsune by Hirofumi Sawada (2004)
- Capeta by Masahito Soda (2005)
- Air Gear by Oh! great (2006)
- Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei by Kōji Kumeta and Dear Boys Act II by Hiroki Yagami (2007)
- Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu by Motoyuki Tanaka (2008)
- Q.E.D. by Motohiro Katou and Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima (2009)
- Ace of Diamond by Yuji Terajima (2010)
- Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama (2011)
- Those Snow White Notes by Marimo Ragawa (2012)
- Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa (2013)
- Baby Steps by Hikaru Katsuki (2014)
- The Seven Deadly Sins by Nakaba Suzuki and Yowamushi Pedal by Wataru Watanabe (2015)
- Days by Tsuyoshi Yasuda (2016)
- Altair: A Record of Battles by Kotono Katō (2017)
- Beastars by Paru Itagaki (2018)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets by Negi Haruba and To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Ōima (2019)
- Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui (2020)
- Blue Lock by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura (2021)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami (2022)
- Shangri-La Frontier by Katarina and Ryosuke Fuji (2023)