Kazuki Takahashi

Kazuki Takahashi (高橋 和希 was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator and original writer/artist of Yu-Gi-Oh!. In 1981, at the age of 20, Takahashi's one-shot manga Ing! Love Ball, submitted under the pen name Hajime Miyabi (雅はじめ) won the Shogakukan New Comic Award and was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in the same year. His serial debut was in 1986 with Gō-Q-Chōji Ikkiman, an adaptation of the TV sports anime of the same name, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. In 1996, Takahashi launched Yu-Gi-Oh! in Weekly Shōnen Jump, where it was serialized until 2004. The series became a huge success and has sold more than 40 million copies. The manga spawned a trading card game of the same name, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game of all time. Following the end of the original manga's serialization, Takahashi would supervise adaptions made by his assistants. In 2013, his one-shot manga Drump was released in Weekly Shōnen Jump. In 2018, Takahashi published the limited series The Comiq in Weekly Shōnen Jump.