Kazuki Takahashi

nihongo|Kazuki Takahashi|高橋 和希|"Takahashi Kazuki"|also 高橋 一雅, born October 4, 1961 in Tokyo is the creator of the manga "Yu-Gi-Oh!", which led to the anime versions of it, Toei's "Yu-Gi-Oh!" and "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters" (Internationally known as "Yu-Gi-Oh!"), as well as a spinoff manga ("Yu-Gi-Oh! R"), a spinoff anime ("Yu-Gi-Oh! GX", "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX" in Japan), and a second spinoff anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's) and several video games and books. He has no relation with female manga artist Rumiko Takahashi, creator of InuYasha and Ranma ½.

Takahashi started out as a mangaka in 1982. His first work was "Tokiō no Tsuma" (闘輝王の鷹), published in 1990. One of his earliest works was "Tennenshokudanji Buray" (天然色男児BURAY), which lasted for two volumes and was published from 1991 to 1992. Takahashi did not find success until 1996 when he created "Yu-Gi-Oh!"

Takahashi's "Yu-Gi-Oh!" manga started the creation of the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" cards or originally known as "Magic and Wizards", a reference to the card game and the card game's parent company Wizards of the Coast; the name of the card game was changed to "Duel Monsters" for the anime adaptations. However, he never intended to focus his manga on the card game he created. The original format of the manga was set in episodic chapters with a different game being played in each chapter, and the Magic and Wizards card game was originally intended to only appear in two chapters. Shueisha, the publisher of the "Weekly Shonen Jump" magazine, received so many letters and fan-mail asking about the Magic and Wizards game that Takahashi decided to extend it.

Takahashi likes to play games, such as Shogi (Japanese chess), Mahjong (the traditional Chinese tile game), card games, and tabletop role playing games. [" [http://www.shonenjump.com/reskin/manga/yugioh/creator/ Kazuki Takahashi] ." "Shonen Jump" (USA)]

Takahashi enjoys reading American comics, and "Hellboy" is his favorite American comic book character. Takahashi and Mike Mignola, the creator of the "Hellboy" comic book series, once participated in an art exchange. Takahashi drew a picture of Hellboy with Yugi Mutou's hairdo, a Millennium Puzzle, and a duel disk. Mignola drew a picture of Hellboy wearing a Millennium Puzzle and a Yugi T-Shirt, and the two exchanged their artwork. ["When Yugi Met Hellboy..." "Shonen Jump" Volume 2, Issue 9. September 2004. VIZ Media. 330.]

Takahashi also collaborated with Yoshio Sawai by sending him a picture of Yugi that was used in the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" (Bobobo makes Yugi come out of his afro). In return, Takahashi included the 'nu' handkerchief in one of the panels in Yu-Gi-Oh! during the Egypt arc."'Fact|date=May 2008

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*http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,388900,00.html