Kazuhiko Torishima

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kazuhiko Torishima
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 19, 1952(1952-10-19)
Age	72
Birthplace	Ojiya
Country	Japan
Birth City	Niigata Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Kazuhiko Torishima Biography

Kazuhiko Torishima is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on October 19, 1952 in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

Torishima joined Shueisha in 1976, the year he graduated from Keio University, wanting to work on Monthly Playboy because of their high-quality short stories. However, he was assigned as an editor at Weekly Shōnen Jump, despite having never really had any contact with manga until Shueisha sent him their products for reference, and put in charge of Doberman Deka. After this series jumped from around thirteenth in the reader rankings to third and going to the Shogakukan archives to study classic manga, Torishima finally became interested in his job. Preferring shōjo manga such as Kaze to Ki no Uta and Poe no Ichizoku, he felt that Jump manga at the time “had no intelligence or depth” and decided to help foster manga he found interesting as long as they ranked high with readers. He also studied the first chapter of Ore wa Teppei panel by panel and the layout and angles in each one, because he felt it was the easiest manga to read and tried to impart this basic structure to his artists. Torishima was most notably editor to Akira Toriyama during Dr. Slump (1980) and the beginning of Dragon Ball (1984), and to Masakazu Katsura during Wingman (1983).

Torishima was editor-in-chief of the video game-themed V Jump when it launched in 1993. In February 1996, he took over as editor-in-chief of Weekly Shōnen Jump during declining sales. While circulation continued to decline, blockbuster series such as One Piece and Naruto were launched. He was the magazine’s editor-in-chief until June 2001.

Kazuhiko Torishima Net Worth

Kazuhiko Torishima is one of the richest Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kazuhiko Torishima 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kazuhiko Torishima (Japanese: 鳥嶋 和彦 , Hepburn: Torishima Kazuhiko, born October 19, 1952 in Ojiya, Niigata) is the representative director of the Hakusensha publishing company. He formerly worked at Shueisha, where he began as an editor before becoming a Senior Managing Director (or CEO), and later a Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions director. He is mostly associated with works from the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump, for which he was editor-in-chief from 1996 to 2001, and is best known for being author Akira Toriyama’s editor during the run of Dr. Slump and through the first half of Dragon Ball.

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kazuhiko Torishima celebrates birthday on October 19 of every year.