Harold Sakuishi Explained

Harold Sakuishi
Birth Name:Takahiro Sakuishi
Birth Date:16 March 1969
Birth Place:Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Period:1985- present
Genre:Fiction
Subject:Shōnen manga
Notableworks:Beck
Occupation:Manga artist
Awards:Kodansha Manga Award (1990 & 2002)

, better known by his pen name, is a Japanese manga artist. Sakuishi has a wide variety of interests which include baseball (he is a huge Chunichi Dragons fan), martial arts, MMA, and music (he is a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan). Each of these has become the basis for his most popular series (baseball in Stopper Busujima, fighting in Bakaichi, and music in Beck). His series also often include character cameos from his past works; one of the newspaper reporters in Beck is actually from Stopper Busujima and so on. Additionally, he's a big fan of Sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) with an altered version of that story appearing in Beck written by "Christy Sakuishi". In Beck he included many famous people in background crowds. These included many popular musicians, characters from Happy Sangokushi and MMA legends Royce Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Beck's Sakuishi to Launch Seven Shakespeare Manga.
  2. Web site: Exclusive: ComiXology Debuts Harold Sakuishi's Beck, Seven Shakespeares Manga Digitally . Anime News Network . 30 July 2018.
  3. Web site: Kodansha Manga Awards . Joel Hahn . Comic Book Awards Almanac . 2007-08-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml . 2007-08-16.
  4. Web site: MacDonald . Heidi . 2018 Harvey Award Winners Announced. Comics Beat . October 6, 2018 . Heidi MacDonald.