The facts
Roles
Manga artist
Country
Japan
Active since
1986
Publishers
Shueisha (Weekly Shōnen Jump)
Awards
Tezuka Award (1986); Shogakukan Manga Award (1993)
About Yoshihiro Togashi
Yoshihiro Togashi is a Japanese manga artist best known for YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter, both published by Shueisha. He won the Tezuka Award in 1986, at age 20, for Buttobi Straight, and his early comedy shorts appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump before a 1989 collection.
YuYu Hakusho ran from 1990 to 1994 across 175 chapters and 19 volumes, sold more than 78 million copies worldwide, won a Shogakukan Manga Award and became a hit anime.
He followed it with the science fiction comedy Level E (1995–1997), adapted into an anime in 2011. Hunter × Hunter has been serialized since 1998.
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