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 ...
. He studied technical design while still at
Kyushu Sangyo University
was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university.
Undergraduate Faculties and departments
*Faculty of Economics
**Department of Economics
*Faculty of Commerce
**Depar ...
, where he began to draw manga. He worked on several one-shot stories before releasing his serialized works: ''
Cat's Eye'', ''
City Hunter'' and ''
Angel Heart''.
After the success of ''
Cat's Eye'' and ''
City Hunter'', Hojo went on to work on other series such as ''Family Compo''. His current ongoing series is ''
Angel Heart'', a spin–off of ''City Hunter'' set in an alternate universe. It has been serialized in the ''
Weekly Comic Bunch'' since 2001 and 30 collected volumes have been published so far.
Tsukasa Hojo is
Takehiko Inoue
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series ''Slam Dunk (manga), Slam Dunk'' (1990–1996), and the ''jidaigeki'' manga ''Vagabond (manga), Vagabond'', which are two of List of best-selling manga, the best-selling man ...
's mentor. Inoue worked as an assistant to Hojo during the production of ''City Hunter''. Hojo is also a long-time acquaintance of ''
Fist of the North Star'' illustrator
Tetsuo Hara, who was also one of the founders of
Coamix
Coamix Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manga and anime production company headquartered in the in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo.事 ...
. Hojo contributed to the production ''
Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior'' film series by designing the character of Reina.
He was honor guest of the eleventh French
Japan Expo
Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in the world - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival - Kultima - and expanded to include some European and US pop c ...
which was held in July 2010.
Works
References
External links
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Tsukasa Hojo mangaat Media Arts Database
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1959 births
Living people
People from Kitakyushu
Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture