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{{Short description|Japanese manga artist (born 1964)}}
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| notable works = ''[[Ushio & Tora]]'', ''[[Karakuri Circus]]'', ''[[Moonlight Act]]'', ''[[Sōbōtei Kowasubeshi]]''
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| awards        = {{ubl|Shogakukan Newcomer Comic Award (1988)<ref name="Oricon">{{cite web|script-title=ja:『うしおととら』『からくりサーカス』の藤田和日郎氏、重大発表を予告|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2107079/full/|website=[[Oricon]]|access-date=November 10, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201110123808/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2107079/full/|archive-date=November 10, 2020|language=ja|date=March 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>|Shōnen Sunday Comic Grand Prix (1989)<ref name="Oricon"/>|[[Shogakukan Manga Award]] (1992)<ref name="ShogakukanAward">{{cite web|url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html|script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者|publisher=Shogakukan|language=ja|access-date=2007-08-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710085514/http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html|archive-date=2008-07-10 }}</ref>|[[Seiun Award#Best Comic of the Year|Seiun Award]] (1997)<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:星雲賞受賞作品リスト|url=http://www.nippon2007.org/jpn/materials/materials_jp_seiun.shtml|website=[[65th World Science Fiction Convention|nippon2007.org]]|access-date=July 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221094506/http://www.nippon2007.org/jpn/materials/materials_jp_seiun.shtml|archive-date=February 21, 2020|language=ja|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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{{Nihongo|'''Kazuhiro Fujita'''|藤田 和日郎|Fujita Kazuhiro|born May 24, 1964 in [[Asahikawa, Hokkaidō]], Japan}}<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:藤田和日郎|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/artist/2322|website=[[Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=March 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213220328/https://natalie.mu/comic/artist/2322|archive-date=December 13, 2021|language=ja|url-status=live}}</ref> is a Japanese [[manga artist]]. He graduated from [[Nihon University]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Nakano, Hiroyuki|script-title=ja:マンガ家スペシャルインタビュー藤田和日郎|trans-title=Manga Artist Special Interview – Kazuhiro Fujita|journal=[[Da Vinci (magazine)|Da Vinci]]|publisher=[[Media Factory]]|issue=77|date=September 2000|pages=108–109|language=ja}}</ref> He made his professional manga debut in ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' in 1989. He is known for his manga series ''[[Ushio & Tora]]'' and ''[[Karakuri Circus]]''. For ''Ushio & Tora'', Fujita won the [[Shogakukan Manga Award]] in the {{Transliteration|ja|[[Shōnen manga|shōnen]]}} category in 1992 and the [[Seiun Award#Best Comic of the Year|Seiun Award]] in 1997.

==Influences==
Fujita stated that he wanted to become a manga artist after reading [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s {{Nihongo|"[[Rumic World#When My Eyes Got Wings|When My Eyes Got Wings]]"|闇をかけるまなざし|Yami wo Kakeru Manazashi}}. He also named [[Yōsuke Takahashi]], {{ill|Satoshi Yoshida (manga artist)|lt=Satoshi Yoshida|ja|吉田聡}} and [[Daijiro Morohoshi]] as influences.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:藤田和日郎先生 直撃インタビュー 完全版 – 第2回 マンガ家を目指した経緯|url=http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/contents/topic-hujita/index2.html|website=[[Jump SQ.]]|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709111303/http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/contents/topic-hujita/index2.html|archive-date=July 9, 2012|language=ja|date=August 2008}}</ref>

==Works==
* {{Nihongo|''[[Ushio & Tora]]''|うしおととら|Ushio to Tora}}, 1990–1996, 33 volumes, [[Shogakukan]]'s ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]''
* {{Nihongo|''[[Kazuhiro Fujita's Short Stories|Yoru no Uta]]''|夜の歌}}, 1995 (collection of short stories published in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' and ''[[Shōnen Sunday S|Shōnen Sunday Zōkan]]'' from 1988 to 1994)
* {{Nihongo|''[[Karakuri Circus]]''|からくりサーカス|Karakuri Sākasu}} 1997–2006, 43 volumes, Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''
* {{Nihongo|''[[Kazuhiro Fujita's Short Stories|Akatsuki no Uta]]''|暁の歌}}, 2004 (collection of short stories published in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' and ''[[Weekly Young Sunday]]'' from 1996 to 2003)
* {{Nihongo|''[[Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu]]''|邪眼は月輪に飛ぶ}}, 2006–2007, one volume, Shogakukan's ''[[Big Comic Spirits]]''
* {{Nihongo|''[[The Black Museum (manga)|The Black Museum: Springald]]''|黒博物館 スプリンガルド|Kuro Hakubutsukan Supuringarudo}}, 2007, one volume, [[Kodansha]]'s ''[[Morning (magazine)|Morning]]''<ref>[http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/manga/news/20071011mog00m200018000c.html Mainichi review: Springald] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014004546/http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/manga/news/20071011mog00m200018000c.html|date=2007-10-14 }}</ref>
* {{Nihongo|''[[Moonlight Act]]''|月光条例|Gekkō Jōrei}}, 2008–2014, 29 volumes, Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''
* {{Nihongo|''[[The Black Museum (manga)|The Black Museum: Ghost and Lady]]''|黒博物館 ゴースト アンド レデ|Kuro Hakubutsukan Gōsuto ando Redi}}, 2014–2015, 2 volumes, Kodansha's ''Morning''
* {{Nihongo|''[[Sōbōtei Kowasubeshi]]''|双亡亭壊すべし}}, 2016–2021, 25 volumes, Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''
* {{Nihongo|''[[The Black Museum (manga)|The Black Museum: Mikazuki Yo, Kaibutsu to Odore]]''|黒博物館 三日月よ、怪物と踊れ|Kuro Hakubutsukan Mikazuki Yo, Kaibutsu to Odore}}, 2022–2023, 6 volumes, Kodansha's ''Morning''

==Other==
* {{Nihongo|''Ayakashidō no Hōrai''|あやかし堂のホウライ}}, 2004–2006, original concept, 3 volumes, Shogakukan's ''[[Shōnen Sunday Super]]''
* {{Nihongo|''[[BakéGyamon]]''|妖逆門|Bakegyamon}}, 2006–2007, original concept

== Anime adaptations==
* ''[[Ushio & Tora#Original video animation|Ushio & Tora]]'', 1992–1993 10-episode OVA
* ''[[Ushio & Tora#Original video animation|Ushio & Tora: Comically Deformed Theater]]'', 1993 one-episode parody OVA
* ''[[Karakuri Circus]]'', 1998 ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' commercial 
* ''[[Kazuhiro Fujita's Short Stories#Puppet Princess|Puppet Princess]]'', 2000 one-episode OVA adapting a short story published in ''Yoru no Uta''
* ''[[Ushio & Tora#Anime|Ushio & Tora]]'', 2015–2016 anime television series
* ''[[Karakuri Circus#Anime|Karakuri Circus]]'', 2018–2019 anime television series

== Master ==
* {{ill|Yoshitoh Asari|ja|あさりよしとお}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Fujita|first=Kazuhiro|script-title=ja:からくりサーカス公式ガイドブック サーカスのすべて|trans-title=Karakuri Circus Official Guidebook  — All About the Circus|date=July 16, 2006|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|isbn=4-09-127771-3|pages=252|language=ja}}</ref> (''[[Space Family Carlvinson]]'')

== Assistants ==
* [[Nobuyuki Anzai]]<ref name="guidep264">{{cite book|last=Fujita|first=Kazuhiro|script-title=ja:からくりサーカス公式ガイドブック サーカスのすべて|trans-title=Karakuri Circus Official Guidebook  — All About the Circus|date=July 16, 2006|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|isbn=4-09-127771-3|pages=264–275|language=ja}}</ref>
* [[Kazurou Inoue]]<ref name="guidep264"/>
* {{ill|Yukio Katayama|ja|片山ユキヲ}}<ref name="guidep264"/> (''[[Hanamote Katare]]'', ''[[Furo Girl!]]'', ''[[Yoake no Ryodan]]'')
* {{ill|Tatsuya Kaneda|ja|金田達也}}<ref name="guidep264"/> (''Ayakashidō no Hōrai'')
* [[Makoto Raiku]]<ref name="guidep264"/> 
* {{ill|Hiroshi Fukuda (manga artist)|lt=Hiroshi Fukuda|ja|福田宏}}<ref name="guidep264"/> (''[[Mushibugyō]]'', ''[[5-fungo no Sekai]]'', ''[[Rock wa Lady no Tashinamideshite]]'')

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite web|script-title=ja:浦沢直樹の漫勉 — 藤田 和日郎|trans-title=[[Naoki Urasawa]]'s Manga Exertions: Kazuhiro Fujita|url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/manben/fujita/|publisher=[[NHK]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107140213/http://www.nhk.or.jp/manben/fujita/|archive-date=January 7, 2021|language=ja|url-status=live}}

==External links==
* [https://websunday.net/author/675/ Kazuhiro Fujita's Backstage section at ''Web Sunday''] {{in lang|ja}}
* {{Anime News Network|people|3630}}

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[[Category:1964 births]]
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[[Category:Nihon University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Asahikawa]]