Kazuhiro Fujita

Kazuhiro Fujita (藤田 和日郎) is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is most famous for the manga Ushio & Tora, for which he won Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1992 and the Seiun Award in 1997, and the long-running Karakuri Circus.

Influences
Fujita stated that he wanted to become a manga artist after reading Rumiko Takahashi's "When My Eyes Got Wings" (闇をかけるまなざし). He also named Yōsuke Takahashi, Satoshi Yoshida (manga artist) and Daijiro Morohoshi as influences.

Works

 * Ushio & Tora (うしおととら), 1990–1996, 33 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
 * Yoru no Uta (夜の歌), 1995 (collection of short stories published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from 1988 to 1994)
 * Karakuri Circus (からくりサーカス) 1997–2006, 43 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
 * Akatsuki no Uta (暁の歌), 2004 (collection of short stories published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Young Sunday from 1996 to 2003)
 * Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu (邪眼は月輪に飛ぶ), 2006–2007, one volume, Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits
 * The Black Museum: Springald (黒博物館 スプリンガルド), 2007, one volume, Kodansha's Morning
 * Moonlight Act (月光条例), 2008–2014, 29 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
 * The Black Museum: Ghost and Lady (黒博物館 ゴースト アンド レデ), 2014–2015, 2 volumes, Kodansha's Morning
 * Sōbōtei Kowasubeshi (双亡亭壊すべし), 2016–2021, 25 volumes, Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday
 * The Black Museum: Mikazuki Yo, Kaibutsu to Odore (黒博物館 三日月よ、怪物と踊れ), 2022–2023, 6 volumes, Kodansha's Morning

Other

 * Ayakashidō no Hōrai (あやかし堂のホウライ), 2004–2006, original concept
 * BakéGyamon (妖逆門), 2006–2007, original concept

Anime adaptations

 * Ushio & Tora, 1992–1993 10-episode OVA
 * Ushio & Tora: Comically Deformed Theater, 1993 one-episode parody OVA
 * Karakuri Circus, 1998 Weekly Shōnen Sunday commercial
 * Puppet Princess, 2000 one-episode OVA adapting a short story published in Yoru no Uta
 * Ushio & Tora, 2015–2016 anime television series
 * Karakuri Circus, 2018–2019 anime television series

Master

 * Yoshitoh Asari (Space Family Carlvinson)

Assistants

 * Nobuyuki Anzai
 * Kazurou Inoue
 * Yukio Katayama (Hanamote Katare, Furo Girl!, Yoake no Ryodan)
 * Tatsuya Kaneda (Ayakashidō no Hōrai)
 * Makoto Raiku
 * Hiroshi Fukuda (manga artist) (Mushibugyō)