Gosho Aoyama is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series Case Closed.
11 Facts About Gosho Aoyama
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Gosho Aoyama has an older brother who is a scientist and helps him out with the "gimmicks" in Case Closed.
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Gosho Aoyama graduated from Yuraikuei High School, before going on to study at Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo.
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In winter of 1986, Gosho Aoyama won a comic contest for freshmen students.
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When he was an art student, Gosho Aoyama had a part-time job working at Tokyo Disneyland, where he painted backgrounds for Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Gosho Aoyama made his debut as a manga artist with Chotto Mattete, which was published in the magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday in winter of 1987.
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Between 1988 and 1993, Gosho Aoyama created the series Yaiba, which ran for 24 volumes.
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Gosho Aoyama began serializing Case Closed in Weekly Shonen Sunday on January 19,1994.
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Gosho Aoyama has won two awards for his work as a manga artist.
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Gosho Aoyama would go on to win the same award for a second time in 2001, this time for Case Closed.
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On May 5,2005, Gosho Aoyama married Minami Takayama, the singer of Two-Mix and voice actress for Conan in the anime adaptation of Case Closed.