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Place of Birth: Ōtoyo, Japan
About Masaya Tokuhiro
- Masaya Tokuhiro (????, Tokuhiro Masaya) is a Japanese manga artist working for various magazines within the Shueisha lines, including Weekly Shonen Jump and Super Jump.
- Born in Otoyo in the prefecture of Kochi on March 1, 1959, he originally got notice from a placing entry in the 17th Akatsuka Award for his story Bijo wa Niku-Ryori ga Tokui (??????????) in 1982.
- His first series, Shape Up Ran (????????), soon followed, running between 1983 and 1985 in Weekly Shonen Jump and quickly established him as not only a gag manga artist but one who balanced in dramatic elements into his stories as well.
- His most well known work, Jungle King Tar-chan (???????? ??????) (a bizarre take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan), became a Weekly Shonen Jump staple during its run between 1988 and 1995.
- At the same time as his Weekly Shonen Jump success, he also had a successful series in Super Jump by way of Fundoshi Police Ken-chan and Choco-chan (??????????????????), running between 1986 and 1990.
- Other notable more recent series in the seinen magazine include Kyoshiro 2030 (???2030) and Showa Eternal Immortal Legend Vampire (???????? ?????). Tokuhiro incorporates many of his loves in his stories, including guns, bodybuilding and muscular physiques (for both males and females) as well as Shorinji Kempo. One of the few assistants he has used in his work was a young Eiichiro Oda, who has admitted to taking many of the ideas and styles from Tokuhiro but has had little contact with him since those days.
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