TOKYO — Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the worldwide smash hit manga and buying and selling card sport Yu-Gi-Oh!, was discovered useless in southern Japan, the nation’s Coast Guard mentioned Thursday.
His physique was found on Wednesday floating off the coast of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture. Mr. Takahashi was touring alone in Nago, a preferred trip vacation spot, and had apparently been snorkeling when he died from unknown causes, a Coast Guard spokesman mentioned. He was 60.
Mr. Takahashi, whose actual title was Kazuo, started working as a manga artist within the early Nineteen Eighties, nevertheless it wasn’t till 1996 that he started his rise to worldwide fame with the story of a spiky-haired boy who challenges his enemies to duels involving magical video games.
The story began as a one-off however ended up working for almost eight years within the pages of the favored Japanese boys comedian journal Weekly Shonen Jump. Along the way in which, it impressed films, TV reveals, video video games and a collectible buying and selling card sport, which rivaled Pokemon as certainly one of Japan’s most recognizable cultural exports.
The collection and its spinoffs turned a advertising and marketing goliath that offered itself: Movies and TV reveals featured the characters enjoying a card sport similar to the one followers might buy of their neighborhood interest retailers. New playing cards have been launched regularly since, persevering with to replace even after the manga and anime completed.
Yu-Gi-Oh! manga have made frequent appearances on best-seller lists, and the buying and selling card sport has generated billions of {dollars} in income for its writer, Konami. A brand new online game model, launched in January, was downloaded 30 million instances in its first three months.
Local firefighters found Mr. Takahashi’s physique at 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, following a report from native vacationers, the Coast Guard mentioned, including that it’s investigating the reason for his loss of life.
News of his loss of life broke within the late afternoon in Japan and was met with an outpouring of grief on social media each in his dwelling nation and world wide.
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