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Tetsuo Hara was born in [[wikipedia:Shibuya|Shibuya]], Tokyo on September 2, 1961 and raised in [[wikipedia:Koshigaya, Saitama|Koshigaya, Saitama]]. As a child he was a fan of manga especially [[wikipedia:Fujio Akatsuka|Fujio Akatsuka]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Tensai Bakabon|Tensai Bakabon]]'' and Naoki Tsuji's ''[[wikipedia:Tiger Mask|Tiger Mask]]''. Hara attended [[wikipedia:Hongō Junior and Senior High School|Hongō Junior and Senior High School]] and worked as an assistant to manga artist [[wikipedia:Yoshihiro Takahashi|Yoshihiro Takahashi]] after graduating. As an amateur, he won the first prize of the 33rd ''Fresh Jump'' award for his one-shot ''Super Challenger''. Hara's professional career began with his first published work: ''Mad Fighter'' in 1982. His first serialized work in the ''[[wikipedia:Shonen Jump|Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' was the ''Iron Don Quixote'', which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. He did not achieve fame until the publication of ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]'' (''Fist of the North Star'') in 1983, which he co-wrote with [[Buronson]] and ran for six years. After the completion of ''Hokuto no Ken'', he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of [[wikipedia:Keiichiro Ryu|Keiichiro Ryu]]'s novels (''Hana no Keiji'', ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' and ''Sakon''). In 2001 he did a prequel to ''Hokuto no Ken'' called ''[[Souten no Ken]]'', which was serialized in the ''[[wikipedia:Weekly Comic Bunch|Weekly Comic Bunch]]''.<br> | Tetsuo Hara was born in [[wikipedia:Shibuya|Shibuya]], Tokyo on September 2, 1961 and raised in [[wikipedia:Koshigaya, Saitama|Koshigaya, Saitama]]. As a child he was a fan of manga especially [[wikipedia:Fujio Akatsuka|Fujio Akatsuka]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Tensai Bakabon|Tensai Bakabon]]'' and [[wikipedia:ja:辻なおき|Naoki Tsuji]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Tiger Mask|Tiger Mask]]''. Hara attended [[wikipedia:Hongō Junior and Senior High School|Hongō Junior and Senior High School]] and worked as an assistant to manga artist [[wikipedia:Yoshihiro Takahashi|Yoshihiro Takahashi]] after graduating. As an amateur, he won the first prize of the 33rd ''Fresh Jump'' award for his one-shot ''Super Challenger''. Hara's professional career began with his first published work: ''Mad Fighter'' in 1982. His first serialized work in the ''[[wikipedia:Shonen Jump|Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' was the ''Iron Don Quixote'', which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. He did not achieve fame until the publication of ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]'' (''Fist of the North Star'') in 1983, which he co-wrote with [[Buronson]] and ran for six years. After the completion of ''Hokuto no Ken'', he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of [[wikipedia:Keiichiro Ryu|Keiichiro Ryu]]'s novels (''Hana no Keiji'', ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' and ''Sakon''). In 2001 he did a prequel to ''Hokuto no Ken'' called ''[[Souten no Ken]]'', which was serialized in the ''[[wikipedia:Weekly Comic Bunch|Weekly Comic Bunch]]''.<br> | ||
His influences include [[wikipedia: | His influences include [[wikipedia:Neal Adams|Neal Adams]]. His cousin is [[wikipedia:Ryo Fukawa|"Rocketman" Ryo Fukawa]].<br> | ||
He suffers from an eye condition called [[wikipedia:Keratoconus|keratoconus]] which left him blind in one eye, so all his work must be fixed by his assistants due to errors in perspective and he can no longer ink his own work. | He suffers from an eye condition called [[wikipedia:Keratoconus|keratoconus]] which left him blind in one eye, so all his work must be fixed by his assistants due to errors in perspective and he can no longer ink his own work. | ||