Hiroshi Hirata
was a Japanese manga artist best known in the United States for the samurai manga series ''Satsuma Gishiden'', which is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics. Hirata's works belong to the subset of manga known as "gekiga" ("dramatic pictures"), and his artwork has a realistic style comparable to Goseki Kojima's work on ''Lone Wolf and Cub''. He was also known for his use of elaborate calligraphy for dialogue (he did the kanji for Akira), which has been preserved (though still translated) in the American editions of his work.According to Frederik L. Schodt's ''Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga'', famed Japanese author and militarist Yukio Mishima admired Hirata's work. Also, ''Usagi Yojimbo'' creator Stan Sakai has praised Hirata's artwork.
Hirata is one of the very few manga authors whose work has been translated into Hindi. A translation by Yoshiyo Takakura of his 1978 manga ''Chi Daruma Kenpo'' was published by Yukichi Yamamatsu's Delhi-based Ganga Yamato Company in 2005.
Hirata died of heart failure on December 11, 2021, at the age of 84. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Hiroki Saito, Yu Toyoda, Hiroshi Hirata, Ami Ota-Kontani, Youichi Tsuchiya, Tappei Takada, Hiroshi SuzukiGet full text
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6by Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Varahram Shahryari, Yuichiro Tanaka, Z Laura Tabatabai, Yuji Hinoda, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
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9by Koji Ueno, Mikako Hiura, Yutaka Suehiro, Shoichi Hazama, Hiroshi Hirata, Masaaki Oka, Kohzoh Imai, Rajvir Dahiya, Yuji HinodaGet full text
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12by Mohd Saif Zaman, Varahram Shahryari, Guoren Deng, Sobha Thamminana, Sharanjot Saini, Shahana Majid, Inik Chang, Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Soichiro Yamamura, Kamaldeep Singh, Yuichiro Tanaka, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
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13by Mohd Saif Zaman, Varahram Shahryari, Guoren Deng, Sobha Thamminana, Sharonjot Saini, Shahana Majid, Inik Chang, Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Soichiro Yamamura, Kamaldeep Singh, Yuichiro Tanaka, Z Laura Tabatabai, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
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14by Mohd Saif Zaman, Varahram Shahryari, Guoren Deng, Sobha Thamminana, Sharanjot Saini, Shahana Majid, Inik Chang, Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Soichiro Yamamura, Kamaldeep Singh, Yuichiro Tanaka, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
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15by Mohd Saif Zaman, Sobha Thamminana, Varahram Shahryari, Takeshi Chiyomaru, Guoren Deng, Sharanjot Saini, Shahana Majid, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Inik Chang, Sumit Arora, Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Kamaldeep Singh, Yuichiro Tanaka, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
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16by Takeshi Chiyomaru, Soichiro Yamamura, Mohd Saif Zaman, Shahana Majid, Guoren Deng, Varahram Shahryari, Sharanjot Saini, Hiroshi Hirata, Koji Ueno, Inik Chang, Yuichiro Tanaka, Z Laura Tabatabai, Hideki Enokida, Masayuki Nakagawa, Rajvir DahiyaGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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