Hiroya Oku


Hiroya Oku is a Japanese manga artist who is the creator of Gantz, Zero One and Hen, all of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. He is finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual content.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the pen name Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.

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