Yoshihiro Togashi's manga career began in 1986 at the age of 20, when he won the coveted Osamu Tezuka Award for new manga artists. He debuted in the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1989 with the romantic comedy Tende Shô waru Cupid. From 1990 to 1994 he wrote and drew the hit manga YuYu Hakusho, which was followed by the dark comedy science-fiction series Level E, and finally this adventure series, Hunter x Hunter, available from VIZ media’ s SHONEN JUMP imprint. In 1999 he married the manga artist Naoko Takeuchi.
