Norihiro Yagi

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Norihiro Yagi (八木 教広, Yagi Norihiro, born 1969) is a Japanese shōnen manga artist.

Yagi was born 1968 in Okinawa, Japan. He started making manga in 1990.

Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist, having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his very first work, Undeadman. Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump and has had two sequels. Yagi's first serialized manga was his comedy-genre Angel Densetsu, which appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 2000. His most recent work, Claymore, has been running in the magazine since 2001.

Yagi's favorite things to do in his spare time is listen to hard rock music, play video games, drive, and perform martial arts. Yagi's favorite Japanese comedic duo is Downtown.^[1]

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• Undeadman
• Angel Densetsu - Comedy, 15 volumes, from 1992 to 2000.
• Claymore - Heroic Fantasy, 13 volumes in progress.

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