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Place of Birth: Higashinaruse, Akita Prefecture, Japan
About Yoshihiro Takahashi
- Yoshihiro Takahashi (????, Takahashi Yoshihiro) is a Japanese manga artist.
- He writes under a pen name in which his first name Yoshihiro is spelled out in hiragana (????). Takahashi was born September 18, 1953, in Higashinaruse, Akita.
- He was very interested in drawing coming of age related themes, and, in the 1960s, started publishing small comics in several newspapers and magazines.
- His first manga was Shitamachi Benkei, but his breakthrough came in 1984 when he published the popular manga Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin, also known as Silver Fang, or Silver Fang Legend Gin, the story about a dog who goes in search of other dogs to fight a bear named Akakabuto.
- He got the idea in 1980 when he read an article about domestic dogs that ran away from their owners and lived as wild dogs in the mountains.
- The pure idea fascinated him, which led him to create the manga about the puppy.
- In 1987, the series won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shonen manga.Takahashi started to publish the sequel, Ginga Densetsu Weed, in 1999 and it soon became a hit as well as an anime which aired on September 17, 2005.
- He has been touted as the first manga artist to draw manga featuring a puppy as hero.Takahashi was the guest of honour at the Finnish role-playing and anime fan convention Tracon in Tampere on September 3 and 4 2011.
- It was his first visit to Finland and most likely his first time being a guest of honour outside Japan.
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