Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 21
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 comedyTende Shôwaru Cupid. From 1990 to 1994 he wrote and drew the hit mangaYuYu Hakusho, which was followed by the dark comedy science-fiction seriesLevel Eand the adventure seriesHunter x Hunter. In 1999 he married the manga artist Naoko Takeuchi.