Hirohiko Araki

Born: June 7, 1960; Sendai, Japan

Nationality: Japanese

Art Movement: Contemporary

Genre: manga

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro…

OJcial site: araki-jojo.com

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Hirohiko Araki (Japanese: ,

Hepburn: Araki Hirohiko, born June 7,
1960 in Sendai, Miyagi) is a Japanese
manga artist. He made his debut under
the name Toshiyuki Araki ( ,
Araki Toshiyuki) in 1980 with his one-
shot Poker Under Arms, and began his
professional career with the short
series Cool Shock B.T., Baoh, and The
Gorgeous Irene. Araki is best known for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohiko…
his long-running series JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure, Zrst published in Weekly
Shōnen Jump in 1987 and which to
More ... sold over 100 million copies in
date has
Japan alone, which is known for its
frequent references to Western rock
music and Italy, both of which Araki is
reportedly very fond of.
HIROHIKO ARAKI
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Araki grew up in Sendai, Japan with his
parents and younger identical twin
sisters. He cites his sisters'
annoyances as the reason he spent
time alone in his room reading manga,
naming Ai to Makoto as the most
important one to him, and his father's
art books, he supposes this was his
motive for drawing manga. He was
particularly in\uenced by the work of
French artist . After a
school friend praised The
his manga,
Secret ofhethe
Under Execution
began secretly drawing "SBR Racebehind
manga Complete
Under Jailbreak
his parent's backs. HeRecord"
submitted his
Hirohiko Araki • 2015
Hirohiko
Zrst work to a magazine in hisAraki
Zrst• year
2012

of high school. All his submissions

were rejected while other artists his
age or younger were making
successful debuts. He decided to go to
the publishers' oJces in Tokyo to Znd
out why in person, taking a manga he
stayed up all-night to Znish. The
Shueisha editor he met highly criticized
the work, but said it had potential and
to clean it up for the upcoming Tezuka
Welcome to Morioh The Poker
NameUnder
"Josuke
ChoAwards. The manga was
Higashikata"
Arms.
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Araki left Miyagi University of

Education before graduating, and made
his debut in 1980 with the wild west
one-shot Poker Under Arms, which was
a "Selected Work" at that year's Tezuka
Award. His Zrst serialization was Cool
Flasha Flood
Shock B.T. in 1983, about youngWarning
magician who solves Hirohiko ArakiBut
mysteries. • 2001

the Zrst series to display his signature

San Diego Beach -
amount of
September 23,gore
1890was 1984's Baoh. It
- 2 tells
Daysthe story of a man who is
to Start,
Part 3
implanted with a parasite by an evil
organization,
Hirohiko giving him superhuman
Araki • 2003
powers, and follows as he Zghts
against them. It was adapted into an
OVA in 1989, the manga was released
in the US by Viz Media in 1990 (in
tankōbon form in 1995), but the OVA
How Many People?
didn't get a stateside release until 2002.
Hirohiko Araki • 2000
It wasn't until The Gorgeous Irene in
1985, that he really developed his
signature art style of buff, muscular
characters (it would later become more
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\amboyant).
Jolyne Cujoh
Hirohiko Araki • 2000

His next series would become his

magnum opus, 1987's JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure. The series begins in 1880s
England and follows Jonathan Joestar
Dead Man's
(JoJo) and his adopted brother Dio
Questions
Brando, who eventually tries to
Hirohiko kill•their
Araki 1999
father in order to obtain his share of
inheritance. When confronted, Dio puts
on an ancient mask that turns him into
a vampire. JoJo then learns a martial
Gold Experience
arts technique called hamon, and
Strikes Back
travels to Dio's castle to kill him.
Hirohiko Araki • 1997
Subsequent arcs of JoJo follow the
descendants of the Joestar family, and
many are set in different parts of the
world. Part 3, which would become the
most popular part in the series,
downplays the vampire story and
hamon technique andGoodbye,
instead Morioh
introduces the powerCho - The Golden
of Stands, which
continues in the seriesHeart
today. Still being
Hirohiko
serialized over 30 years later, Araki
JoJo's• 1996

Bizarre Adventure has been adapted

into numerous other forms of media
Crazy Diamond is
and the manga had 100 million
Unbreakable
collected
Hirohiko Araki volumes
• 1996 in print by December
2016.

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