Template:Short description Template:Expand Japanese Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist working for various magazines within the Shueisha lines, including Weekly Shōnen Jump and Super Jump. Born in Ōtoyo in the prefecture of Kōchi on March 1, 1959, he originally got notice from a placing entry in the 17th Akatsuka Award for his story Template:Nihongo in 1982. His first series, Template:Nihongo, soon followed, running between 1983 and 1985 in Weekly Shōnen 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, Template:Nihongo (a bizarre take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan), became a Weekly Shōnen Jump staple during its run between 1988 and 1995. At the same time as his Weekly Shōnen Jump success, he also had a successful series in Super Jump by way of Template:Nihongo, running between 1986 and 1990. Other notable more recent series in the seinen magazine include Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo.
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.[1]
Works
- Template:Ill2 (シェイプアップ乱 Sheipu appu Ran), Weekly Shōnen Jump (1983 - 1986, 14 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (ふんどし刑事ケンちゃんとチャコちゃん), Super Jump (1986 - 1990, 2 volumes)
- Template:Nihongo, Weekly Shōnen Jump (1988 - 1990, 7 volumes)
- Template:Nihongo, Weekly Shōnen Jump (1990 - 1995, 20 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (Wrestling with もも子), Weekly Shōnen Jump (1997, 2 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (狂四郎2030), Super Jump (1997 - 2004, 20 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (昭和不老不死伝説 バンパイア), Super Jump (2005 - 2006, 5 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (近未来不老不死伝説 バンパイア), Super Jump (2006 - 2008, 5 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (ふぐマン), Super Jump ( 2008 - 2010, 6 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (亭主元気で犬がいい), Big Comic Superior (2010 - 2013, 8 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (黄門さま〜助さんの憂鬱〜), Grand Jump (2013 - 2015, 6 volumes)
- Template:Ill2 (もっこり半兵衛), Grand Jump PREMIUM (2015 - present)