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Place of Birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
About Takao Aoki
- Beyblade, known in Japan as Explosive Shoot Beyblade (????????????, Bakuten Shuto Beiburedo), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki to promote sales of spinning tops called "Beyblades" developed by Takara Tomy.
- The series focuses on a group of kids who form teams with which they battle one another using Beyblades.
- Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from September 1999 to July 2004, the individual chapters were collected and published in 14 tankobon by Shogakukan and was licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media.
- An anime adaptation aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from January 8, 2001, to December 24, 2001 and was followed by two sequel series, Beyblade V-Force and Beyblade G-Revolution, and the 2002 film Beyblade: Fierce Battle.
- Nelvana licensed and produced English-language adaptations of the anime series and the film.
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