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    {{nihongo|'''Tetsuo Hara'''|原哲夫|Hara Tetsuo|born September 2 1961}} is a [[wikipedia:Japanese people|Japanese]] [[wikipedia:mangaka|manga artist]] famous for drawing the series ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]'', known in English as ''Fist of the North Star'', which he wrote with [[Buronson]].  He also did the character designs for the arcade game ''[[w:c:capcom:Saturday Night Slam Masters|Saturday Night Slam Masters]]''.
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    {{nihongo|'''Tetsuo Hara'''|原哲夫|Hara Tetsuo|born [[2 September]] [[1961]]}} is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[mangaka|manga artist]] famous for drawing the series ''Hokuto no Ken'', known in English as ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', which he wrote with [[Buronson]].  He also did the character designs for the arcade game ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]''.


    ==Career==
    ==Career==
    A native of Tokyo, Hara attended [[Hongo Senior High School]] and worked as an assistant to manga artist [[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 ''[[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 ''Fist of the North Star'', he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of [[Ryu Keiichiro]]'s novels (''Keiji'', ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' and ''Sakon''). His current series is ''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'', which has been serialized in the ''[[Weekly Comic Bunch]]'' since 2001.
    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 ''[[w:c:fujio-akatsuka:The Genius 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>
    He suffered from an eye condition 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.  
    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.


    ==Works==
    ==Works==
    ===Manga===
    ===Manga===
    {| class="wikitable"
    {| class="wikitable"
    |-
    ! Title
    ! Title
    ! Japanese
    ! Romaji
    ! Year
    ! Year
    ! Writer
    ! Collected
    ! Collected
    |-
    |-
    | ''Super Challenger''
    | ''Super Challenger''
    | スーパーチャレンジャー
    | Super Challenger
    | 1982
    | 1982
    | Unpublished
    |
    | [[wikipedia:One-shot (comics)|One-shot]] (featured in the Jump Super Ace edition of ''Iron Don Quixote'')
    |-
    |-
    | ''Mad Fighter''
    | ''Mad Fighter''
    | マッドファイター
    | Mad Fighter
    | 1982
    | 1982
    | One-shot
    |
    | One-shot (featured in ''Iron Don Quixote'')
    |-
    |-
    | ''Clash Hero''
    | ''Clash Hero''
    | クラッシュヒーロー
    | Clash Hero
    | 1982
    | 1982
    | One-shot
    |
    | One-shot pilot for ''Iron Don Quixote'' (featured in the Jump Super Ace edition of ''Iron Don Quixote'')
    |-
    |-
    | ''Tetsu no Don Quixote'' (''The Iron Don Quixote'')
    | ''The Iron Don Quixote''
    | 鉄のドンキホーテ
    | Tetsu no Don Quixote
    | 1982-1983
    | 1982-1983
    | 2 ''[[tankōbon]]''
    |
    | 2 ''[[wikipedia:tankōbon|tankōbon]]''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Hokuto no Ken''
    | ''[[Hokuto no Ken (yomikiri)|Fist of the North Star]]''
    | 北斗の拳
    | [[Hokuto no Ken (yomikiri)|Hokuto no Ken]]
    | 1983
    | 1983
    | 2 one-shots, prototype to the later series of the same name.
    |
    | 2 one-shots (featured in ''Tetsu no Don Quixote'' Vol. 2)
    |-
    |-
    | ''Hokuto no Ken'' (''[[Fist of the North Star]]'')
    | ''[[Hokuto no Ken|Fist of the North Star]]''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:北斗の拳|北斗の拳]]
    | [[Hokuto no Ken]]
    | 1983-1988
    | 1983-1988
    | 27 ''tankōbon'', later reassembled as 15 ''aizoban/bunkokan'' editions and 14 ''kanzenban'' editions.
    | [[Buronson]]
    | 27 ''tankōbon'', later reassembled as 15 ''aizoban/bunkokan'' editions and 14 ''kanzenban'' editions.
    |-
    |-
    | ''Cyber BLUE''
    | ''Cyber Blue''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:CYBERブルー|サイバーブルー]]
    | Cyber Blue
    | 1988-1989
    | 1988-1989
    | Bob<br>Ryuichi Mitsui
    | 4 ''tankōbon''
    | 4 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Hana no Keiji'' (''Keiji'')
    | ''[[wikipedia:Keiji (manga)|Keiji of the Flowers: On the Other Side of the Clouds]]''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:花の慶次|花の慶次 ―雲のかなたに―]]
    | Hana no Keiji: Kumo no Kanata ni
    | 1990-1993
    | 1990-1993
    | [[wikipedia:Keiichiro Ryu|Keiichiro Ryu]]<br>Izumi Fujimori
    | 18 ''tankōbon''
    | 18 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Zhí Yè Xiōng Shǒu''
    | ''The Hitman''
    | {{ruby|職業兇手|ジーイェションショウ}}
    | Zhí Yè Xiōng Shǒu
    | 1993
    | 1993
    |
    | One-shot
    | One-shot
    |-
    |-
    | ''Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu''
    | ''Doppelganger Tokugawa Ieyasu''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:影武者徳川家康|影武者徳川家康]]
    | Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu
    | 1994-1995
    | 1994-1995
    | [[wikipedia:Keiichiro Ryu|Keiichiro Ryu]]<br>[[wikipedia:Shō Aikawa (screenwriter)|Shō Aikawa]]
    | 6 ''tankōbon''
    | 6 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Kaen no Shō''
    | ''The Blazing Palm''
    | 火焔の掌
    | Kaen no Shō
    | 1995
    | 1995
    |
    | One-shot
    | One-shot
    |-
    |-
    | ''Takaki Ryūsei''  
    | ''The Mighty Ryūsei''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:猛き龍星|猛き龍星]]
    | Takaki Ryūsei
    | 1995
    | 1995
    |
    | 3 ''tankōbon''
    | 3 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Kiseki Moyuru Toki''
    | ''When The Pyroxene Burns''
    | 輝石燃ゆる時
    | Kiseki Moyuru Toki
    | 1996
    | 1996
    |
    | One-shot (featured in ''Aterui Nisei'' Vol. 1)
    |-
    | ''Chase''
    | チェイス ―追跡―
    | Chase: Tsuiseki
    | 1997
    | [[Buronson]]
    | One-shot
    | One-shot
    |-
    |-
    | ''Sakon''
    | ''Sakon: Record of the Upheaval of the Warring States''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:SAKON（左近） -戦国風雲録-|{{ruby|左近|SAKON}} -戦国風雲録-]]
    | Sakon: Sengoku Fūun Roku
    | 1997-2000
    | 1997-2000
    | [[wikipedia:Keiichiro Ryu|Keiichiro Ryu]]<br>Shingo Nihashi
    | 6 ''tankōbon''
    | 6 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Hydra''
    | ''Hydra''
    | {{ruby|九頭龍|ヒュドラ}}
    | Hyudora
    | 1997-1998
    | 1997-1998
    | Tadashi Ikuta
    | 1 ''tankōbon''
    | 1 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Nakabō Rintarō ''
    | ''Misappropriation Investigator Rintarō Nakabō''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:公権力横領捜査官 中坊林太郎|公権力横領捜査官 中坊林太郎]]
    | Kōkenryoku Ōryō Sōsakan Nakabō Rintarō
    | 1998-2000
    | 1998-2000
    |
    | 2 ''tankōbon''
    | 2 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Aterui II''
    | ''Aterui II''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:阿弖流為II世|阿弖流為Ⅱ世]]
    | Aterui Nisei
    | 2000
    | 2000
    | [[wikipedia:Katsuhiko Takahashi|Katsuhiko Takahashi]]
    |1 ''tankōbon''
    |1 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''Sōten no Ken'' (''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'')
    | ''[[Souten no Ken|Fist of the Blue Sky]]''
    | 2001-ongoing
    | [[wikipedia:ja:蒼天の拳|蒼天の拳]]
    |18 ''tankōbon''
    | [[Souten no Ken]]
    | 2001-2010
    | [[Nobuhiko Horie]]
    |22 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    | ''Child of War: The Legend of Oda Nobunaga''
    | [[wikipedia:ja:いくさの子 織田三郎信長伝|いくさの子 織田三郎信長伝]]
    | ''Ikusa no Ko: Oda Saburō Nobunaga Den''
    | 2010-
    | [[Nobuhiko Horie]]
    |12 ''tankōbon''
    |-
    |-
    | ''[[HnK Chapter 136½|Fist of the North Star: Last Piece]]''
    | 北斗の拳−LAST PIECE−
    | ''[[HnK Chapter 136½|Hokuto no Ken: Last Piece]]''
    | 2013
    |[[Buronson]]
    | One-shot
    |}
    |}


    ===Novels===
    ===Novels===
    * ''Kōryū no Mimi'' - (4 volumes, 1991-1993)
    * ''Kōryū no Mimi'' ([[wikipedia:ja:黄龍の耳|黄龍の耳]]) - (2 volumes, 1993-1994)
    * ''Hokuto no Ken: Jubaku no Machi'' (1 volume, 1995)
    * ''[[Jubaku no Machi|Hokuto no Ken: Jubaku no Machi]]'' (1 volume, 1995)
    * ''[[wikipedia:Musashi (novel)|Miyamoto Musashi]]'' (8 volumes, 2013)


    ===Non-manga works===
    ===Non-manga works===
    * ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]''/''Muscle Bomber'' (1993 arcade game) - illustrations.
    * ''[[w:c:capcomdatabase:Saturday Night Slam Masters|Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'' (''Muscle Bomber'', 1993 arcade game) - illustrations.
    * ''Itadaki Muscle!'' (2006 TV series) - illustrations for the opening intro.
    * ''[[w:c:capcomdatabase:Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters 2|Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II]]'' (''Super Muscle Bomber'', 1994 arcade game) - character designs''<nowiki/>''
    * ''Mori no Senshi Bonolon'' (2006 anime series) - producer, character designer
    * ''Mori no Senshi Bonolon'' ([[wikipedia:ja:森の戦士ボノロン|森の戦士ボノロン]], 2005 story books/anime) - producer, character designer
    * ''Itadaki Muscle!'' ([[wikipedia:ja:いただきマッスル!|いただきマッスル!]] 2006 TV series) - illustrations for the opening intro.
    * [[wikipedia:K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 Final|K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 Final]] [https://archive.is/20130623162437/img104.imageshack.us/img104/9210/21549330zd8.jpg pamphlet cover]
     
    ==Tetsuo Hara artwork==
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    Lum.jpg|[[w:c:uruseiyatsura:Lum|Lum]]
    Guts.jpg|[[w:c:berserk:Guts|Guts]]
    Son Gokou.jpg|Super Saiyan [[w:c:dragonball:Goku|Son Gokū]]
    Ryo Saeba and Hitomi Kisumi by Tetsuo Hara.jpg|[[w:c:cityhunter:Ryo Saeba|Ryo Saeba]] and [[w:c:cityhunter:Hitomi Kisugi|Hitomi Kisugi]]
    10053757235_s.jpg|K-1 World GP 2007 Final
    </gallery>
     
    ==Rank Kingdom==
    In 2014, Tetsuo Hara was a guest on the ranking show Rank Kingdom (ランク王国, ''Rank Ōkoku'') and listed his personal Top Five Hokuto no Ken characters, villains and [[Danmatsuma|death cries]] (断末魔, ''danmatsuma'').
     
    '''Top Five Characters:'''
    # [[Kenshiro]]
    # [[Rei]]
    # [[Toki]]
    # [[Juza]]
    # [[Raoh]]
    '''Top Five Villains:'''
    # [[Uighur]]
    # [[Heart]]
    # [[Jagi]]
    # [[Amiba]]
    # [[Devil Rebirth]]
    '''Top Five Danmatsuma:'''
    # [[Heart|HIDEBU!]] (ひでぶっ!!)
    # [[Mad Sarge|TAWABA!]] (たわば!!)
    # [[Scorpio|ABESHI!]] (あべし!!)
    # [[Jagi|DOEHEPU!]] (どぉえへぷ!!)
    # [[Amiba|UWARABA!]] (うわらば!!)


    ==External links==
    ==External links==
    *[http://www.haratetsuo.com/ Hara Tetsuo Official Website]
    *[http://www.haratetsuo.com/ Hara Tetsuo Official Website]
    *[http://www.hokutodestiny.com/hokutonoken.php?page=opere_di_hara Tetsuo Hara's works] (in Italian)
    *[[wikipedia:ja:原哲夫]]
    *[http://rose.zero.ad.jp/~zaa26883/top01.htm 原哲夫先生は熱い！]
    *[http://199xhokutonoken.wordpress.com/about-2/gli-autori/tetsuo-hara-le-opere-dagli-esordi-ad-oggi/ Tetsuo Hara's works] (in Italian)


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    Latest revision as of 20:52, 28 March 2023

    Tetsuo Hara (原哲夫, Hara Tetsuo, born September 2 1961) is a Japanese manga artist famous for drawing the series Hokuto no Ken, known in English as Fist of the North Star, which he wrote with Buronson. He also did the character designs for the arcade game Saturday Night Slam Masters.

    Career[edit | edit source]

    Tetsuo Hara was born in Shibuya, Tokyo on September 2, 1961 and raised in Koshigaya, Saitama. As a child he was a fan of manga especially Fujio Akatsuka's Tensai Bakabon and Naoki Tsuji's Tiger Mask. Hara attended Hongō Junior and Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist 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 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 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 Weekly Comic Bunch.
    His influences include Neal Adams. His cousin is "Rocketman" Ryo Fukawa.
    He suffers from an eye condition called 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.

    Works[edit | edit source]

    Manga[edit | edit source]

    Title Japanese Romaji Year Writer Collected
    Super Challenger スーパーチャレンジャー Super Challenger 1982 One-shot (featured in the Jump Super Ace edition of Iron Don Quixote)
    Mad Fighter マッドファイター Mad Fighter 1982 One-shot (featured in Iron Don Quixote)
    Clash Hero クラッシュヒーロー Clash Hero 1982 One-shot pilot for Iron Don Quixote (featured in the Jump Super Ace edition of Iron Don Quixote)
    The Iron Don Quixote 鉄のドンキホーテ Tetsu no Don Quixote 1982-1983 2 tankōbon
    Fist of the North Star 北斗の拳 Hokuto no Ken 1983 2 one-shots (featured in Tetsu no Don Quixote Vol. 2)
    Fist of the North Star 北斗の拳 Hokuto no Ken 1983-1988 Buronson 27 tankōbon, later reassembled as 15 aizoban/bunkokan editions and 14 kanzenban editions.
    Cyber Blue サイバーブルー Cyber Blue 1988-1989 Bob
    Ryuichi Mitsui     		4 tankōbon
    Keiji of the Flowers: On the Other Side of the Clouds 花の慶次 ―雲のかなたに― Hana no Keiji: Kumo no Kanata ni 1990-1993 Keiichiro Ryu
    Izumi Fujimori     		18 tankōbon
    The Hitman 職業兇手(ジーイェションショウ) Zhí Yè Xiōng Shǒu 1993 One-shot
    Doppelganger Tokugawa Ieyasu 影武者徳川家康 Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu 1994-1995 Keiichiro Ryu
    Shō Aikawa     		6 tankōbon
    The Blazing Palm 火焔の掌 Kaen no Shō 1995 One-shot
    The Mighty Ryūsei 猛き龍星 Takaki Ryūsei 1995 3 tankōbon
    When The Pyroxene Burns 輝石燃ゆる時 Kiseki Moyuru Toki 1996 One-shot (featured in Aterui Nisei Vol. 1)
    Chase チェイス ―追跡― Chase: Tsuiseki 1997 Buronson One-shot
    Sakon: Record of the Upheaval of the Warring States 左近(SAKON) -戦国風雲録- Sakon: Sengoku Fūun Roku 1997-2000 Keiichiro Ryu
    Shingo Nihashi     		6 tankōbon
    Hydra 九頭龍(ヒュドラ) Hyudora 1997-1998 Tadashi Ikuta 1 tankōbon
    Misappropriation Investigator Rintarō Nakabō 公権力横領捜査官 中坊林太郎 Kōkenryoku Ōryō Sōsakan Nakabō Rintarō 1998-2000 2 tankōbon
    Aterui II 阿弖流為Ⅱ世 Aterui Nisei 2000 Katsuhiko Takahashi 1 tankōbon
    Fist of the Blue Sky 蒼天の拳 Souten no Ken 2001-2010 Nobuhiko Horie 22 tankōbon
    Child of War: The Legend of Oda Nobunaga いくさの子 織田三郎信長伝 Ikusa no Ko: Oda Saburō Nobunaga Den 2010- Nobuhiko Horie 12 tankōbon
    Fist of the North Star: Last Piece 北斗の拳−LAST PIECE− Hokuto no Ken: Last Piece 2013 Buronson One-shot

    Novels[edit | edit source]

    Non-manga works[edit | edit source]

    Tetsuo Hara artwork[edit | edit source]

    Rank Kingdom[edit | edit source]

    In 2014, Tetsuo Hara was a guest on the ranking show Rank Kingdom (ランク王国, Rank Ōkoku) and listed his personal Top Five Hokuto no Ken characters, villains and death cries (断末魔, danmatsuma).

    Top Five Characters:

    1. Kenshiro
    2. Rei
    3. Toki
    4. Juza
    5. Raoh

    Top Five Villains:

    1. Uighur
    2. Heart
    3. Jagi
    4. Amiba
    5. Devil Rebirth

    Top Five Danmatsuma:

    1. HIDEBU! (ひでぶっ!!)
    2. TAWABA! (たわば!!)
    3. ABESHI! (あべし!!)
    4. DOEHEPU! (どぉえへぷ!!)
    5. UWARABA! (うわらば!!)

    External links[edit | edit source]

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