Hiroya Oku

Manga artist

Popular As Kuon Yahiro (久遠矢広)

Birthday September 16, 1967

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Fukuoka, Japan

Age 56 years old

Nationality Japan

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Hiroya Oku (奥浩哉) is a Japanese manga artist, who is the creator of Gantz, Gigant, Hen and Inuyashiki, the first two of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump.

Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, his manga often contain explicit violence, sexual depictions, and matters that are considered taboo by the public, and he is known as a pioneer in the use of digital processing for manga backgrounds.

1988

His debut manga Hen was a runner-up in the 1988 Young Jump Youth Manga Awards.

The pseudonym he used at the time of its serialization was Kuon Yahiro (久遠矢広).

Oku designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.