Kazuki Takahashi was born on October 4, 1961 in Tokyo.

The creator of YU-GI-OH! became passionate about drawing comics in his teens, and made his debut in Japan's best-selling weekly comic magazine, Shonen Jump, in 1991. After taking some time to recharge his artistic energy, he began drawing the comics series YU-GI-OH! in 1996. The animated version of YU-GI-OH! debuted in 2000 and became an immediate hit, spawning a mania that included video games, animation, and a card game, all of which boasted record sales. 23 million comics have been sold thus far.

YU-GI-OH!'s appeal has spread across every facet of the media, and Kazuki Takahashi is now known as one of Japan's foremost comic artists.

 Who is he? The photo on your left, is the actual recent photo of the creator of the smash hit series Yu-Gi-Oh!: Mr. Kazuki Takahashi. Takahashi was born in Japan and grew up to be a manga artist/author.

The Creator & The Craze (JAPAN): Takahashi is a very famous manga (comic) book artist. His creation of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World flew by the land of the rising sun.. JAPAN, very quickly! It's popularity, in 1996 croweded many new children and fans in Japan. With the creation of the card game in works by Konami, Japan couldn't keep the cards on the store shelves! Tournaments were performing, and manga books of Yu-Gi-Oh! were in the works! 4 seasons of Yu-Gi-Oh! aired on TV Tokyo, ranking the #1 show and gaming. A movie was made, and now, Mr. Takahashi's popularity in his home country makes him even more happy with just writing one book! Over 8 video games of Yu-Gi-Oh! where hot gamings for the Gameboy Color, GameBoy Advance, and Playstation, where hot in Video Gaming, Electronic Stores in Japan. Comic books were being sold in book stores. Everyone in Japan, wants to be like Yugi. They had to buy everything with Yugi on it! And that's where the craze began! Yu-Gi-Oh! is the King of hot products!!

The Creator & The Craze (ASIA): Takahashi's popularity is sweepting the nation! Japan wasn't the only coutry that's beging for more Yu-Gi-Oh! Asia countries like the big one: China, is aiming for Yu-Gi-Oh! There is very unknown info about Chinese popularity of Takahashi, but there is a Chinese version of the card game, Japanese games and TV series are now airing in China. Will China and the rest of Asia catch up to Japan's major home populirity in the future? We'll just wait and see!

The Creator & The Craze (USA): Now in 2000, the famous Game King hits America, UK, and other countries. But USA was the first to have the English translation of Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! was first released in America around 2,000! Manga books are going fast, new card sets are being madely translated for the Americans, new video game releases, and more Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes are now airing as KidsWB #1 show!


Future Popularity Ending?: Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of the most ever so popular series, that just keeps going on. Unlike Pokemon, Pokemon faded in 1995-2000. So Pokemon lost it's popularity because of less battles, gaming was borring, to many cute new creatures, no cool new cast, and best worst part, cards were boring! Now, Pokemon may still might have a comeback, but mostly everyone, is tired of Pikachu. Yu-Gi-Oh! on the other hand, is much cooler, characters are better. Story plot is great, and the cards are cooler then Pokemon. Duel Monsters are 10 times cooler then Pocket Monsters. Reasons: 1) Not many cute ones 2) Attacks are wickedly better 3) There is no limit to number of Duel Monsters, as their are Pocket Monsters! Will the popularity of Yu-Gi-Oh! die out in the near future, in the next 5 years or so. We hope not! Yugi and his pals are too cool, and too stong, and they will never give up! Believe in the heart of the cards!