Tetsuo Hara

Infobox Person


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name = Tetsuo Hara
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1961|9|2|df=y
birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
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nationality = Japanese
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known_for = "Fist of the North Star"
occupation = Manga artist
website = [http://www.haratetsuo.com/ Official webpage]

nihongo|Tetsuo Hara|原哲夫|Hara Tetsuo|born 2 September 1961 is a Japanese manga artist famous for drawing the series "Hokuto no Ken", known in English as "Fist of the North Star", which he wrote with Buronson. He also did the character designs for the arcade game "Saturday Night Slam Masters".

Career

A native of Tokyo, Hara attended Hongo Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist Yoshihiro Takahashi after graduating. As an amateur, he won the first prize of the 33rd "Fresh Jump" award for his one-shot "Super Challenger". Hara's professional career began with his first published work: "Mad Fighter" in 1982. His first serialized work in the "Weekly Shonen Jump" was the "Iron Don Quixote", which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. He did not achieve fame until the publication of "Hokuto no Ken" ("Fist of the North Star") in 1983, which he co-wrote with Buronson and ran for six years. After the completion of "Fist of the North Star", he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of Ryu Keiichiro's novels ("Keiji", "Tokugawa Ieyasu" and "Sakon"). His current series is "Fist of the Blue Sky", which has been serialized in the "Weekly Comic Bunch" since 2001.He suffered from an eye condition which left him blind in one eye, so all his work must be fixed by his assistants due to errors in perspective and he can no longer ink his own work.

Works

Manga

Novels

* "Kōryū no Mimi" - (4 volumes, 1991-1993)
* "Hokuto no Ken: Jubaku no Machi" (1 volume, 1995)

Non-manga works

* "Saturday Night Slam Masters"/"Muscle Bomber" (1993 arcade game) - illustrations.
* "Itadaki Muscle!" (2006 TV series) - illustrations for the opening intro.
* "Mori no Senshi Bonolon" (2006 anime series) - producer, character designer

External links

* [http://www.haratetsuo.com/ Hara Tetsuo Official Website]
* [http://www.hokutodestiny.com/hokutonoken.php?page=opere_di_hara Tetsuo Hara's works] (in Italian)