Kazuhiro Fujita Explained

Name Nonen:	藤田 和日郎
Birth Date:	24 May 1964
Birth Place:	Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
Area:	Manga artist
Notable Works:	Ushio & Tora, Karakuri Circus, Moonlight Act, Sōbōtei Kowasubeshi
Nonus:	ja

^[1] is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University.^[2] He made his professional manga debut in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio & Tora, for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992 and the Seiun Award in 1997, and the long-running Karakuri Circus.

Influences

Fujita stated that he wanted to become a manga artist after reading Rumiko Takahashi's . He also named Yōsuke Takahashi, and Daijiro Morohoshi as influences.^[3]

Works

• , 1990–1996, 33 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
• , 1995 (collection of short stories published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from 1988 to 1994)
• 1997–2006, 43 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
• , 2004 (collection of short stories published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Young Sunday from 1996 to 2003)
• , 2006–2007, one volume, Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits
• , 2007, one volume, Kodansha's Morning^[4]
• , 2008–2014, 29 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
• , 2014–2015, 2 volumes, Kodansha's Morning
• , 2016–2021, 25 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
• , 2022–2023, 6 volumes, Kodansha's Morning

Other

• , 2004–2006, original concept
• , 2006–2007, original concept

Anime adaptations

• Ushio & Tora, 1992–1993 10-episode OVA
• Ushio & Tora: Comically Deformed Theater, 1993 one-episode parody OVA
• Karakuri Circus, 1998 Weekly Shōnen Sunday commercial
• Puppet Princess, 2000 one-episode OVA adapting a short story published in Yoru no Uta
• Ushio & Tora, 2015–2016 anime television series
• Karakuri Circus, 2018–2019 anime television series

Master

• ^[5] (Space Family Carlvinson)

Assistants

• Nobuyuki Anzai^[6]
• Kazurou Inoue^[6]
• ^[6] (Hanamote Katare, Furo Girl!, Yoake no Ryodan)
• ^[6] (Ayakashidō no Hōrai)
• Makoto Raiku^[6]
• ^[6] (Mushibugyō, 5-fungo no Sekai, Rock wa Lady no Tashinamideshite)

Further reading

• Web site: ja:浦沢直樹の漫勉 — 藤田 和日郎. Naoki Urasawa's Manga Exertions: Kazuhiro Fujita. http://www.nhk.or.jp/manben/fujita/. NHK. https://web.archive.org/web/20210107140213/http://www.nhk.or.jp/manben/fujita/. January 7, 2021. ja. live.

External links

• Kazuhiro Fujita's Backstage section at Web Sunday

Notes and References

1. Web site: ja:藤田和日郎. https://natalie.mu/comic/artist/2322. Natalie. Natasha, Inc.. March 20, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211213220328/https://natalie.mu/comic/artist/2322. December 13, 2021. ja. live.
2. Nakano, Hiroyuki. ja:マンガ家スペシャルインタビュー藤田和日郎. Manga Artist Special Interview – Kazuhiro Fujita. Da Vinci. Media Factory. 77. September 2000. 108–109. ja.
3. Web site: ja:藤田和日郎先生 直撃インタビュー 完全版 – 第2回 マンガ家を目指した経緯. http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/contents/topic-hujita/index2.html. Jump SQ.. Shueisha. July 24, 2021. https://archive.today/20120709111303/http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/contents/topic-hujita/index2.html. July 9, 2012. ja. August 2008.
4. http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/manga/news/20071011mog00m200018000c.html Mainichi review: Springald
5. Book: Fujita, Kazuhiro. ja:からくりサーカス公式ガイドブック サーカスのすべて. Karakuri Circus Official Guidebook — All About the Circus. July 16, 2006. Shogakukan. 4-09-127771-3. 252. ja.
6. Book: Fujita, Kazuhiro. ja:からくりサーカス公式ガイドブック サーカスのすべて. Karakuri Circus Official Guidebook — All About the Circus. July 16, 2006. Shogakukan. 4-09-127771-3. 264–275. ja.