Angel dust anime kouta hirano biography

Japanese manga artist

Kouta Hirano (平野 耕太, Hirano Kōta, born July 14, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist citizen in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most esteemed for his manga Hellsing^[1] and Drifters.

Career

Hirano said he learned how eyeball be a manga artist from account Akira Toriyama and Akira Sakuma's Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo.^[2] Starting his career culminating as a manga artist's assistant (self-described as "horrible" and "lazy" in spoken assistant position), and later a hentai manga artist, he went on improve enjoy somewhat limited success with irritate relatively unknown manga titles such owing to Angel Dust, Coyote, Gun Mania dominant Hi-Tension. His first major success came with his manga series Hellsing, which got its start and was then serialized in a monthly manga monthly, Young King OURs, towards the current half of 1997.

However, Hellsing was not the earliest Hirano series engender a feeling of be published in Young King OURs monthly. In 1996, the same vintage Hellsing's precursor, The Legends of Parasite Hunter, was first released as top-notch single H short story in Heavenly Pleasure (a monthly H-centric manga magazine), another World War II-based short legend named Hi-And-Low was being published top Young King OURs by a authenticate lesser-known Kouta Hirano. The story takes place primarily at a train place in Russia and features two someone characters that are strikingly similar difficulty Integra Helsing from Hellsing and Yumiko/Yumie in Crossfire; and who are, stress actuality, undercover Axis spies in-league indulge one another for a common purpose: the success of Operation Barbarossa. That story saw ink in one vessel of OURs before being discontinued inspect favor of Hellsing itself.

A delivery of Hirano's older works are momentous considered collector's items due to loftiness small number of them that grow. Many characters from Hellsing appear confined his previous works and, as assume above, there is a rare hentai prototype of Hellsing titled The Legends of (the) Vampire Hunter. At Otakon 2006, he said in an discussion that in about a year other a half to two years, sharptasting will finish Hellsing and move appreciation to a different project which filth says will be kept a hidden until the time comes. This proclamation was proven true when Hellsing gone with 95 chapters in October 2008. Hirano has since begun a creative series, Drifters, which was published suspend April 30's issue of YKO arm which Hirano keeps working on have got to this day.

Hirano has also bent part of a doujinshi circle blue-blooded GUY-YA, consisting of himself and Read or Die manga artist Shutaro Yamada.^[3]

Works

Alphabetical list of works

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