Takehiko Inoue

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born

January 12, 1967 in Okuchi, Kagoshima, Japan

gender

male

website

http://www.itplanning.co.jp/

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels

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Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga. This in turn helped make basketball popular in Japan and across East Asia.

Inoue has been drawing manga mainly in male-oriented magazines. His name is ordered as Takehiko Inoue on his books sold in North America through Viz Media (Vagabond, Slam Dunk, and Real), although Gutsoon! Entertainment's earlier Slam Dunk translations in North America used Inoue Takehiko.
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Books by Takehiko Inoue

Average rating: 4.26 · 8,064 ratings · 299 reviews · 96 distinct works

	Slam Dunk, Tome 1 4.06 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 1 by Takehiko Inoue, Eiji Yoshikawa 4.19 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 2 4.30 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 3 4.28 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 4 4.24 avg rating — 191 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 6 4.34 avg rating — 187 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Slam Dunk , Volume 2 4.22 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 5 4.33 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Vagabond, Volume 1 4.61 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Slam Dunk Volume 3 (Slam Dunk 4.15 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Takehiko Inoue

Vagabond (33 books)
by Takehiko Inoue

4.32 avg rating — 3,792 ratings

Slam Dunk (31 books)
by Takehiko Inoue

4.17 avg rating — 3,510 ratings

Vagabond Viz Big (10 books)
by Takehiko Inoue

4.57 avg rating — 400 ratings

Real (10 books)
by Takehiko Inoue

4.17 avg rating — 327 ratings

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Quotes by Takehiko Inoue

“Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?”
― Takehiko Inoue

tags: inspirational , life , real

14 people liked it

“Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun?
You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place?
Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.”
― Takehiko Inoue

tags: inspirational , life , real

5 people liked it

“Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON."
-Slam Dunk”
― Takehiko Inoue

5 people liked it

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