Hiroya Oku
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is a manga artist who is the creator of Gantz
, Zero One and HEN
, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He is currently working on Phase 3 of Gantz, which began in October 2009. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's
Xbox 360
and PlayStation 3
fighting game, Soulcalibur IV
named Shura.
Gantz
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens...
, Zero One and HEN
Hen (manga)
is a seinen manga which was the first work created by manga artist Hiroya Oku, who is best known for Gantz.There are two separate series of Hen, but they share the same setting, and characters from the first series appear in the second....
, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He is currently working on Phase 3 of Gantz, which began in October 2009. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's
Namco Bandai
, also known as the Bandai Namco Group, is a Japanese holding company formed from the merger of Namco and Bandai. It has interests in toys, video games and arcades, anime, and amusement parks. The new entity was founded on September 29, 2005...
Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
and PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
fighting game, Soulcalibur IV
Soulcalibur IV
is the fourth installment in Namco's Soul series of fighting games. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on July 29, 2008, in North America, on July 31, 2008, in Japan, Europe, and Australia, and on August 1, 2008, in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.The game is notable for...
named Shura.
Favorite things
"I would say my favorite things right now are girls in manga with girlish faces and huge tits that just jump out at you!"Works
- HenHen (manga)is a seinen manga which was the first work created by manga artist Hiroya Oku, who is best known for Gantz.There are two separate series of Hen, but they share the same setting, and characters from the first series appear in the second....
(1988–1997)
- There are two series of Hen; the first, with kanji, ran for 13 volumes—the first three are short story collections, and the remaining ten are a romantic comedy in which both leads are male. The short stories were later repackaged as "Aka" and "Kuro".
- The second series, 8 volumes, with the title only in romaji, is a romantic comedy in which both leads are women.
- Zero One (1999–2000)
- There are only three volumes, about a video game tournament. It was not successful, and ended abruptly.
- GantzGantzis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens...
(2000–ongoing)
- Gantz
- It has currently 31 volumes. The first eight have been adapted into the two seasons of the anime, with the final episodes of the anime consisting of a different story that the manga follows.
- Me~teru no KimochiMe~teru no Kimochi, aka Love Laughs at Locksmiths, is a manga by Hiroya Oku, best known for his creation of the Gantz series. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from 2006 to 2007....
(2006–2007)
- Me~teru no Kimochi
- Three volumes in all, about a shut-in or hikikomoriHikikomoriis a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive people who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement because of various personal and social factors in their lives...
falling in love with his young stepmother after the death of his father.