1. Kentaro Yabuki is a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Black Cat and for illustrating To Love Ru and To Love Ru Darkness alongside author Saki Hasemi.
10 Facts About Kentaro Yabuki
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Kentaro Yabuki's mentor was Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Hikaru no Go, Death Note and Bakuman.
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Kentaro Yabuki even admitted that his first publication in Jump was not his own work but actually an illustration combining, or rather fusing together, its characters Gohan and Trunks that he sent in to a 1995 contest and won a prize for.
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Kentaro Yabuki's first serialized manga, Yamato Gensoki, briefly ran in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998.
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Kentaro Yabuki then teamed up with Saki Hasemi and illustrated the Weekly Shonen Jump series To Love Ru while Hasemi wrote it.
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In 2014, Kentaro Yabuki began providing the illustrations for a different Matsu light novel series, Hatena Illusion.
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However, a series titled Hatena Illusion R began in 2019, and Kentaro Yabuki continues his role as illustrator of the novels.
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Kentaro Yabuki launched the manga series Ayakashi Triangle in the June 15,2020, issue of Weekly Shonen Jump.
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Kentaro Yabuki said he was born in Okayama but "formed [his] personality" in Kochi.
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Kentaro Yabuki is the brother-in-law of fellow manga artist Kenta Shinohara.