Hirohiko Araki

Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦, Araki Hirohiko) is a mangaka and author of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, on which this wikia project is based.

Biography

Hirohiko Araki was born on June 7 1960 in Sendai, Japan. Araki left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.

Araki is best known for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1987 to 2002, before the series transferred to the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2004.

Araki has received the Tezuka Award.

In 2012, Araki celebrates his 30th year as a manga artist and the 25th anniversary of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

The course of the story in JoJo takes the protagonists and the reader through numerous countries and the experience of many cultures. Through various means and at various degrees of factual accuracy and fictionalisation the history and cultures of Britain, "The West", Asia, the Middle East, Japan and Italy in particular are explored and annotated. Many instances of names, styles, concepts or segments of stories originating or expressed in music, film, fashion and other comics and manga are readily identifiable in the story and expression of the manga. JoJo also spans a range of genres including or as a provisional description: Science Fiction, Paranormal & the Supernatural, Mystery & Thriller, and Action.