Tetsuo Hara

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    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

    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 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 Naoki Tsuji (Tiger Mask). 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.

    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!!)

    Works

    Manga

    Title Japanese Romaji Year Collected
    Super Challenger スーパーチャレンジャー Super Challenger 1982 One-shot (featured in Iron Don Quixote tankoban)
    Mad Fighter マッドファイター Mad Fighter 1982 One-shot (featured in Iron Don Quixote tankoban)
    Clash Hero クラッシュヒーロー Clash Hero 1982 One-shot (featured in Iron Don Quixote tankoban)
    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 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 4 tankōbon
    Maeda Keiji 花の慶次 ―雲のかなたに― Hana no Keiji: Kumo no Kanata ni 1990-1993 18 tankōbon
    The Hitman 職業兇手 Zhí Yè Xiōng Shǒu 1993 One-shot
    Doppelganger Tokugawa Ieyasu 影武者徳川家康 Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu 1994-1995 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― Tsuiseki 1997 One-shot
    Shima Sakon 左近 -戦国風雲録- Sakon: Sengoku Fūun Roku 1997-2000 6 tankōbon
    Hydra 九頭龍 Hyudora 1997-1998 1 tankōbon
    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 1 tankōbon
    Fist of the Blue Sky 蒼天の拳 Souten no Ken 2001-2010 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- 3 tankōbon

    Novels

    Non-manga works

    Tetsuo Hara artwork

    External links