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Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Hirohiko Araki (荒木 飛呂彦, Araki Hirohiko, born June 7, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut under the name Toshiyuki Araki (荒木 利之, 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 his long-running ongoing series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which was…
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Key facts
- Native name
- 荒木 飛呂彦
- Born
- Toshiyuki Araki , ( 1960-06-07 ) June 7, 1960 (age 66) , Sendai , Japan
- Occupation
- Manga artist
- Period
- 1980–present
- Genre
- Action , adventure , supernatural
- Subject
- Shōnen manga , seinen manga
- Notable works
- Baoh JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Spouse
- Asami Araki
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Sendai
- Occupation
- mangaka
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Participant in
- Ice Bucket Challenge
- Field of work
- manga
- Image
- Hirohiko Araki 2013 - cropped.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-06-07
- name in kana
- あらき ひろひこ
- name in native language
- 荒木飛呂彦
- Commons category
- Hirohiko Araki
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- birth name
- 荒木利之
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Encyclopedic overview
Toshiyuki Araki (Japanese: 荒木 利之, Hepburn: Araki Toshiyuki; born June 7, 1960), better known as Hirohiko Araki (荒木 飛呂彦, Araki Hirohiko), is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his long-running series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which began publication in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1987 and has over 120 million copies in circulation as of 2022, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hirohiko Araki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.