Yukinobu Hoshino

Yukinobu Hoshino (星野 之宣; Hoshino Yukinobu; January 29, 1954 - ) is a Japanese mangaka.

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He was born in Kushiro, Hokkaido and dropped out of Aichi Perfectural College of Arts. He made his debut in 1975 with Kotetsu no Queen (鋼鉄のクイーン) and with Harukanaru Asa (はるかなる朝) won Tezuka prize for an outstanding manga. On 1976, he wrote Blue City (ブルーシティー) for Shukan Shonen Jump.

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Initially, his artistic style was similar to that of Mikiya Mochizuki and had humoristic touches, but moved onto the gekiga style. He is known for using the Gekiga style to create detailed and serious Science Fiction stories based on American and European Science Fiction novels but creating a completely different storyline. He had also drawn various works based on ancient and pre-historic histories. Amongst other things, he is known for his graphic novel series, "2001 Nights".

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January 29: January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years)....

1954: 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar....

Mangaka: Mangaka (???) is the Japanese word for a comic artist....