Nobuhiro Watsuki

Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月 伸宏, Watsuki Nobuhiro^?, Niigata, Japan, May 26, 1970) is a Japanese mangaka, best known for creating the samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin.

Biography

Since he was little, Watsuki had a fondness for martial arts, Kendō, which later influenced his works. Although his fans were great, he was a self-sacrificing practitioner but he soon realized that he was not made for kendo, not getting a single victory in the championships in which he participated and ended up abandoning it, but he continued in the world of kendo. sleeve. Later, he graduated from Nagaoka High School.

He was influenced in manga by his older brother, mainly works like Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack and Neon Genesis Evangelion. During adolescence he became a great cartoonist despite the fact that his brother abandoned interest in him.

His career as a mangaka began when at the age of 16 he won the Shueisha tezuka prize contest (publisher of the famous Shūkan Shōnen Jump magazine) for his short work Teacher Pon which was later published. Later, he won the 33rd tezuka prize, thus allowing himself to enter the publishing world, as an assistant to Takeshi Obata, whom he admired and helped produce the works Arabian Lamp-Lamp and Chikara Mito Densetsu. .

Watsuki independently publishes his first professional work titled Sengoku No Mikazuki ("Crescent Moon in Time of War").

In 1993 the story known as Meiji Kenkaku Romantan ("Chronicle of an Expert Swordsman of the Meiji Era") based on a homeless man named Kenshin Himura, a character who was originally an ishin shishi assassin during the bakumatsu who disappeared at the end of the war to later appear in the Meiji era. This 23-page work represented the pilot episode of the Rurouni Kenshin manga that the following year, 1994. It would be its launch and it obtained the immediate success of the series, which made the author very famous by publishing the first tankōbon of Rurouni Kenshin .

In 2002 he made his second work, Busō Renkin (Alchemy Weapons) which is about a boy who dreams that he was killed but in reality he died and was revived by an alchemy artifact called Kakugane, from there He decides to use the power that it gives him to protect his city from the homunculi, the Manga was not very popular despite the fact that it came to have an Anime adaptation and a video game in PlayStation 2 format, it was canceled because the publisher I didn't agree with a character.

From 2007 to 2015 he published a manga called Embalming: The Another Tale of Frankenstein which is based on the creatures called Frankenstein that are created from dead bodies and given life through electrons; This manga consists of 10 volumes, of which the first eight are already published in tankoubon format. This manga was well received by the public, and the first volume reached number 11 in the Shueisha publisher's sales ranking in the week of its release.^{[citation required]}

Personal life

Watsuki is married to author Kaoru Kurosaki. She has assisted her husband as a writer of several manga including Buso Renkin, of which she would later write two novelizations.Watsuki has been described as "pro-doujinshi"; and asks his followers to send them fan comics.

In November 2017, police announced the seizure of DVDs containing videos of naked girls at Watsuki's Tokyo office. Tokyo police then searched Watsuki's home as part of the investigation, looking for child pornography. The search ended in the discovery of DVDs with videos of naked underage girls. The prosecution charged him with possession of child pornography on November 21. Consequently, the serialization of Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc was placed on indefinite suspension.

Works

• Rurouni Kenshin (1994)
• Gun Blaze West (2000)
• Busō Renkin (2003)
• Embalming 2 (2006)
• Embalming - The Another Tale of Frankestein- (2008)
• Yamato Takeru (2010)
• Rurouni Kenshin Tokuhitsuban (2012) - Reinicio de Rurouni Kenshin.

One shot

• Teacher Pon (1987)
• Hokuriku Yuurei Kobanashi (1991)
• Sengoku No Mikazuki ("Luna Growing in Time of War")
• Meteor Strike