Kazuhiro Fujita

Kazuhiro Fujita at Lucca Comics & Games 2016

Kazuhiro Fujita (藤田 和日郎, Fujita Kazuhiro, born 24 May 1964 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio and Tora, for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992^[1] and the Seiun Award in 1997, and the long-running Karakuri Circus.

Works

• Ushio and Tora 1990-1996, 33 volumes, Shonen Sunday
• Yoru no Uta (collection of short stories drawn 1988-1994)
• Karakuri Circus 1997-2006, 43 volumes, Shonen Sunday
• Akatsuki no Uta (collection of short stories drawn 1996-2003)
• Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu, 2007, Big Comic Spirits
• The Black Museum: Springald, 2007, Morning^[2]
• Moonlight Act (月光条例 Gekkō Jōrei), 2008-2014, 29 volumes, Shonen Sunday
• The Black Museum: Ghost and Lady, 2014-2015, 2 volumes, Morning
• Sou-Bou-Tei Must Be Destroyed (双亡亭壊すべし Sōbōtei Kowasubeshi), 2016-present, Shonen Sunday
• He created the original concepts for Bakegyamon and Ayakashidō no Hōrai

Anime

• Ushio and Tora, 10-episode OAV
• Karakuri Circus, as a Shōnen Sunday commercial
• Karakuri no Kimi, one-episode OAV - released in English as Puppet Princess
• Ushio and Tora, 2015 anime television series

Masters

• Fujihiko Hosono
• Yoshitoo Asari

Assistants

• Nobuyuki Anzai
• Kazurou Inoue
• Yukiwo Katayama
• Tatsuya Kaneda
• Makoto Raiku

References