Kazuki Takahashi, creator of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh!, has died at the age of 60.
Reports claim a body was found off the coast of Nago City in Okinawa. Japanese Coast Guard authorities later announced that the body was indeed that of Takahashi, ✱who both created Yu-Gi-Oh! and has overseen the franchise as a consultant since 1996.
According to , at approximately 10:30 AM on July 6 a passerby on a nearby boat spotted his body. He was found wearing snorkelling gear, complete with mask and fins, and was said to have already been dead🗹 for between one and two days. However, it wasn’t confirmed to be Takahashi until a day later by the Nago Maritime Security Office. The Coast Guard and Police have yet to confirm the cause of death, or whether it was accidental.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is by far Takahashi’s most famous creation, launching his career when it debuted in 1996. Before that, he had seen moderate su🌠ccess witওh a manga adaptation of the 1986 sports anime Go-Q-Choji Ikkiman, and finally got his first original work, Tokio no Taka, published in 1990.
At the time, Yu-Gi-Oh! wasn’t even known for the card game – it was merely one game Takahashi devised for a more horror-based manga. In fact, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards didn’t even appear in the manga until the ninth chapter, where it was first-known as “Magic and Wizards” and more heavily inspired by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering. Fℱollowing the popularity of the game’s appearance, Takahashi was tasked by Shonen Jump Magazine with expanding it and making it the primary focus, giving us the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG we kn😼ow today.
Since Yu-Gi-Oh!’s massive success, Takahashi contributed to not just the manga, but also the game as a consultant, and even the anime, se𒁃rving as the executive producer on 2016’s The Dark Side of Dimensions. For his contributions to anime and manga, Takahashi was awarde🍎d the Comic-Con International .
Outside of Yu-Gi-Oh, he had more recently released a number of one-shot mangꦦa, such as The Comiq in 2018, and Marvel’s Secret Reverse in 2019, which showcased a team-up between Iron Man and Spider-Man as th🌌ey took on an evil Japanese gaming company CEO.