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Hiroya Oku is a Japanese manga artist, known for creating Gantz, Gigant, Hen and Inuyashiki. Learn about his biography, works, awards and influences on this Wikipedia page.
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Hiroya Oku is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations. He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
Inuyashiki (いぬやしき) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from January 2014 to July 2017, with its chapters collected in 10 tankōbon volumes. The story follows two people, who via a mysterious event, are endowed with superhuman abilities, but the ...
No.Title [a]Directed ByOriginal Air Date [36]1"Ichirō Inuyashiki"Transliteration: ...Shūhei YabutaOctober 12, 20172"Hiro Shishigami"Transliteration: ...Hirokazu YamadaOctober 19, 20173"Naoyuki Ando"Transliteration: "Andō ...Kazuya AiuraOctober 26, 20174"Samejima"Transliteration: "Samejima" ...Tatsufumi ItōNovember 2, 2017- Overview
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Hiroya Oku (|奥 浩哉|Oku Hiroya) born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Me~teru no Kimochi, Zero-One and Hen, all of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. His most renowned manga Gantz began in July 2000 and ended in 2013. His manga often contains explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the pen name Yahiro Kuon.
Favorite things
"I would say my favorite things right now are girls in manga with girlish faces and huge tits that just jump out at you!"
Most hated thing
He has stated his hatred of cat ears on a girl.
•Hen (1988–1997)
There are two series of Hen; the first, with kanji, ran for 13 volumes—the first three are short story collections, and the remaining ten are a romantic comedy in which both leads are male. The short stories were later repackaged as "Aka" and "Kuro".
The second series, 8 volumes, with the title only in romaji, is a romantic comedy in which both leads are women. This series has been adapted into an anime.
•Zero One (1999–2000)
There are only three volumes, about a video game tournament. It was not successful, and ended abruptly.
•Gantz (2000–2013)
Films
Oku states that Die Hard and Back to the Future are his favorite films.
•Anime News Network entry
•Ain't it Cool articles mentioning Hiroya Oku
Nov 27, 2017 · Hiroya Oku: While I was still working on GANTZ at Weekly Young Jump, you made me an offer to let me work on whatever I wanted for Evening magazine. The theory around then was the main character of a manga series always had to be good-looking, even if it’d be unlikely in its setting.
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