yoshihiro togashi (born april 27, 1966) began publishing with shueisha while still a university student. his 1986 one-shot buttobi straight won the tezuka award, given to new manga artists. weekly shōnen jump ran stories later collected in ōkami nante kowakunai!! (1989), and his four-volume romance ten de shōwaru cupid appeared between 1989 and 1990.
yuyu hakusho was serialized in weekly shōnen jump from december 1990 to july 1994, its 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon. it follows yusuke urameshi, killed saving a child and returned to life as an "underworld detective". the manga had over 50 million copies in circulation in japan by 2013 and won togashi the 39th shogakukan manga award for shōnen. an anime adaptation of 112 episodes, directed by noriyuki abe and co-produced by fuji television, yomiko advertising and studio pierrot, aired from october 1992 to january 1995, followed by two animated films in 1993 and 1994 and a series of ovas.
level e, a science-fiction comedy, ran in weekly shōnen jump from october 1995 to january 1997 and was collected in three volumes. a 13-episode anime by studio pierrot and david production, directed by toshiyuki katō, aired on tv tokyo in 2011.
hunter × hunter has been serialized in weekly shōnen jump since march 1998, with long and frequent hiatuses from 2006; its chapters are collected in 39 tankōbon volumes as of july 2026, and the series has 84 million copies in circulation as of july 2022. nippon animation produced a 62-episode television adaptation, directed by kazuhiro furuhashi, that aired on fuji television from october 1999 to march 2001, with three ova series following between 2002 and 2004. madhouse produced a second adaptation, directed by hiroshi kōjina, broadcast for 148 episodes on nippon television from october 2011 to september 2014.
in north america the hunter × hunter manga is licensed by viz media. in 2017 togashi wrote the two-chapter akuten wars, illustrated by hachi mizuno, for grand jump premium.
related profiles; Hayao Miyazaki, John Kricfalusi, Ralph Bakshi
sources; wikipedia: yoshihiro togashi, wikipedia: yuyu hakusho, wikipedia: hunter × hunter, wikipedia: level e, wikipedia: hunter × hunter (1999 tv series), wikipedia: hunter × hunter (2011 tv series)
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