1. Katsura Hoshino is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga Prefecture.
30 Facts About Katsura Hoshino
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Katsura Hoshino was born on April 21,1980, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, as the younger of fraternal twin girls and the second of three children.
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Katsura Hoshino confessed she was not too interested in school, often making excuses to avoid taking classes.
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When watching Castle in the Sky, Katsura Hoshino decided she wanted to become an animator, inspired by director Hayao Miyazaki mostly.
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When going to highschool, Katsura Hoshino started drawing which she believed to be the result of reading Naoko Takeuchi's manga Sailor Moon.
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Katsura Hoshino often showed the 4 panel drawings known as yonkoma drawings to her sister who was in the same college.
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Additionally, Katsura Hoshino stated she was a fan of the comedy genre as she aimed to make people laugh.
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When Katsura Hoshino was 17, she aimed at getting animation jobs against her parents' wishes but she failed.
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At an unknown time, Katsura Hoshino was motivated by her mother to start writing manga.
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Katsura Hoshino still felt troubles in her new job, due to the multiple hours at work, the problems with storyboards and having to take the bullet train.
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Katsura Hoshino dreamed of bringing her mother to the city and was able to in 2006.
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Gray-man has been put on hiatus many times; once due to Katsura Hoshino falling seriously ill with norovirus and another because of an injury to her neck.
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In November 2008, Weekly Shonen Jump announced that Katsura Hoshino was again putting the series on hold due to an injured wrist.
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Additionally, Katsura Hoshino was one of the multiple manga authors that celebrated the 10th anniversary of the manga series Naruto by drawing her own rendition of the main character, Naruto Uzumaki.
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Katsura Hoshino has been highly praised for her art and character designs.
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Douresseaux describes the backgrounds as eerie and Lovecraftian and says that Katsura Hoshino "makes practically every page a delightful surprise of gothic style and beguiling violence".
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Katsura Hoshino describes Hoshino's drawing style as the "aesthetic yet dynamic, superbly beautiful yet super-violent" style made famous by female manga artist who arose from dojinshi subculture during the late-80s and early-90s, citing Clamp and Yun Koga as prominent examples.
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Gray-man could end in poetic justice, Katsura Hoshino found this difficult as she believes it should end in a fight unlike other series influence by this style.
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Katsura Hoshino has named Takeshi Obata and Osamu Akimoto as inspiring her work.
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Characters are often carried over from unpublished manga Katsura Hoshino worked on early in her career.
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Gray-man, Katsura Hoshino was inspired by the 1973 film, The Exorcist, even though she was afraid of the movie.
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Katsura Hoshino uses unnamed famous scientists, Aleister Crowley and Yusuke Santamaria as models for several of her characters.
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Katsura Hoshino collaborated with Kata Kizaki, the author of the novel adaptations, to create the character Bak Chan.
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The role of Miranda Lotto changed, and was ultimately lengthened, after Katsura Hoshino realized the similarities the two shared.
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Gray-mans publication, Katsura Hoshino stated that Allen, Kanda, and Cross Marian are the hardest characters to draw while the Millennium Earl and Hevlaska are the easiest.
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Katsura Hoshino commented that most of her ideas for the series come after falling asleep in the bath for six hours.
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Katsura Hoshino has thanked her mother in some volumes of the series.
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Katsura Hoshino has commented the series' main theme was "tragedy" but still aims to make it fun.
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Katsura Hoshino visited graveyards since she never had resources for the series.
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Katsura Hoshino commented she would rather go again as she did not have much time to stay in New York.