is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. His most famous works include '' Goku Midnight Eye'' and '' Cobra''.

Career

Terasawa was born in

Asahikawa, Hokkaido is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of the subprefecture, and the second-largest city in Hokkaido, after Sapporo. It has been a core city since April 1, 2000. The city is currently well known for the Asah ...

. In the early days of his career, while still unknown, his contributed comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him deeper into the world of comics. In 1976 he moved to

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

and began to study under renowned Japanese manga artist,

Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu''; – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him suc ...

. During the period he worked with the Manga Department of

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, his illustration work entitled "Mother Earth, Turn Green Again" was awarded the

Tezuka Award The is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha since 1971, under the auspices of its ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' magazine. It awarded new manga artists in the Story Manga category. Its counterpart award, Akatsuka Award, aw ...

. In 1977, he began drawing for ''

Weekly Shōnen Jump is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that r ...

'', a popular Japanese manga magazine. From around the beginning of the 1980s, he began to see the personal computer as a tool for the creative purposes. In 1985, he kicked off an eight-color comic book series called ''BAT''. In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created ''TAKERU'' (1992), the world's first computer graphics comic book series. Next came ''Cobra'', ''Bat'' and ''Gundragon Sigma'' (in this latter series, only the main character is drawn by hand) and several other works. His works include original works, scenarios and works he has directed. Representative works include a CD-ROM format work for use with a PC, ''COBRA II: A Man of Legend'' and original animation videos such as ''GOKU'', ''GOKU II'', '' Raven Tengu Kabuto'' and others. Buichi Terasawa's works are translated and published in more than ten countries and are featured in comics and animation-related gatherings and exhibitions around the world. Whilst in Japan promoting ''

The Fifth Element ''The Fifth Element'' is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Milla Jov ...

'',

Luc Besson Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films ''Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and ''La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the '' ...

met with Terasawa to discuss the current state of sci-fi.http://www.buichi.com/top/cargo/luc/index.html Photo with Luc Besson Besson is reputedly a fan of Terasawa's work, partially due to the enormous popularity of '' Space Cobra'' in France.

References

External links

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Buichi Terasawa's website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Terasawa, Buichi 1955 births Living people Manga artists from Hokkaido People from Asahikawa