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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]]''.

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>