14 Facts About Hirohiko Araki

Toshiyuki Araki, better known as Hirohiko Araki, is a Japanese manga artist.

Hirohiko Araki is best known for his long-running series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which began publication in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1987 and has over 120 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history.

Hirohiko Araki cites his sisters' annoyances as the reason he spent time alone in his room reading manga, naming Ai to Makoto as the most important one to him.

Hirohiko Araki supposes that his father's art books were his motive for drawing manga; he was particularly influenced by the work of French artist Paul Gauguin.

Hirohiko Araki submitted his first work to a magazine in his first year of high school.

Hirohiko Araki decided to go to the publishers' offices in Tokyo in person to find out why, taking a manga, Poker Under Arms, that he stayed up all-night to finish.

Hirohiko Araki left Miyagi University of Education before graduating, and made his debut under the name Toshiyuki Hirohiko Araki in 1980 with the wild west one-shot Poker Under Arms, which was a "Selected Work" at that year's Tezuka Award.

From 2011 to 2021, Hirohiko Araki produced JoJolion, the eighth story arc of the series, serialized in Ultra Jump magazine.

In 2008, Hirohiko Araki drew the cover art for a collection featuring Yasunari Kawabata's short story "The Dancing Girl of Izu".

Also in 2009, Hirohiko Araki was one of five artists selected by the Musee du Louvre to create original works set at the famous museum.

Spur ran a JoJo spinoff by Hirohiko Araki, Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci starring Jolyne Cujoh from Part 6, in their February 2013 issue.

Hirohiko Araki drew the album cover for Sayuri Ishikawa's 2012 album X -Cross-, where she performs one of the series' iconic poses and is drawn wearing jewelry from the manga, the cover of the 2012 reprint of Tamaki Saito's Lacan for Surviving, and the cover of the 2015 compilation album for composer Akira Senju.

Hirohiko Araki created an official poster for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, titled The Sky above The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa.

On July 29,2024, Hirohiko Araki unveiled a public art display commissioned by JR West entitled The Fountain Boy in Osaka Station, based upon a fountain that was once present up until 2004, as part of the opening of business complex Innogate Osaka.