Takehiko Inoue
- January 11, 2024
- Artist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Takehiko Inoue |
| Date Of Birth | Jan 12, 1967(1967-01-12) |
| Age | 57 |
| Birthplace | Isa, Kagoshima |
| Country | Japan |
| Birth City | Kagoshima Prefecture |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
Takehiko Inoue Biography
| Birthday | Jan 12 |
| Birth Year | 1967 |
Takehiko Inoue is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on January 12, 1967 in Isa, Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Takehiko Inoue (Jing Shang Xiong Yan , Inoue Takehiko born 12 January, 1966) is a Japanese manga artist. Inoue is most well-known for the basketball show Slam Dunk (1990-1996), which is among the top-selling manga in the history of the world as well as the samurai manga Vagabond. The majority of his manga is focused on basketball, with Inoue is himself a big basketball fan. His most popular works that are sold through North America through Viz Media include Slam Dunk, Vagabond and Real however Slam Dunk was earlier translated by Gutsoon! Entertainment. In the year 2012 Inoue was the very first winner from the Cultural Prize at the Asia Cosmopolitan Awards.
Inoue established Buzzer Beater on the web in the month of May 1996 on the Sports-iESP site (now J Sports). The story is about an basketball club from Earth that tries to compete at the international level. It is available on his official website with four different languages to choose from: Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. Buzzer Beater was turned as a 13-episode anime show in the year 2005. 2007 saw the release of a new 13-episode show was made. The animation was done with the help of TMS Entertainment.
While still working on Vagabond, Inoue began drawing Real in 1999, his third basketball manga, which focuses on wheelchair basketball. It received an Excellence Prize at the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival.
Inoue’s breakthrough fame was with his comic, Slam Dunk, about basketball players from Shohoku High School. The manga first appeared within the Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 until 1996 and sold more than 120 million copies Japan in the first year alone. In 1995, it won an annual Shogakukan Manga Award in shonen manga. It also in 2007 it was voted the most popular manga in Japan. Slam Dunk was adapted into an anime TV series as well as four films.
Takehiko Inoue Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Artist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Takehiko Inoue is one of the richest Artist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Takehiko Inoue 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Prior to the debut of his career, Inoue was an assistant to Tsukasa Hojo in City Hunter. Inoue made his debut in 1988 in the year 1988, at the time that Purple Kaede (Feng papuru ) was featured within the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The magazine was awarded the annual 35th Tezuka Award.
His first serialization came out in 1989, with Chameleon Jail in which he illustrated of an original tale that was written by Kazuhiko Watanabe.
Vagabond was Inoue’s next manga, adapted from the fictionalized accounts by Eiji Yoshikawa of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi, which he began drawing in
- It won him the Kodansha Manga Award for General manga in 2000 and the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 2002.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 6 in |
Takehiko Inoue height 5 ft 6 in Takehiko weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
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Facts & Trivia
Takehiko Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Takehiko Inoue celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.