Yasuhiro Nightow

Yasuhiro Nightow at Japan Expo 2011

Yasuhiro Nightow (内藤 泰弘, Naitō Yasuhiro^?) is a Japanese manga artist and game creator who created the anime and manga Trigun. Nightow was born on April 8, 1967 in Yokohama, Japan. He moved to Yokosuka when he was in elementary school, and spent the junior high and high school years in Shizuoka.

Before the release of the popular manga, Trigun, Nightow studied social science and then specialised in media studies where he majored. Nightow has been a manga artist for about eleven years, and is recently popular in the US thanks to the US release of Trigun. Trigun, the TV series, had a limited broadcast run in 1998.

Nightow also created the characters and story for the Sega/Red Entertainment anime and third-person shooter video game series Gungrave.^[1]

Works

• Trigun (Anime Series and Manga)
• Gungrave (Characters and story)
• Blood Blockade Battlefront (Manga)

References

1. ^ "Grave danger". Malaysia Star. 25 June 2006. http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2006/6/25/lifebookshelf/14482894&sec=lifebookshelf. Retrieved 28 July 2010. 

External links

• Yasuhiro Nightow at the Internet Movie Database
• Yasuhiro Nightow's page
• Interviews with Yasuhiro Nightow

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