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Hiroyuki Takei (武井宏之) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime Shaman King.

Career
Hiroyuki Takei started drawing manga with writer EXIAD on SD Departement Store Series which they created for a fanzine. Early in his career, he became the assistant to Tamakichi Sakura on The Form of Happiness (しあわせのかたち) as Turtle-san (カメさん)in 1992 and Kōji Kiriyama (Ninku). At that time, he also submitted his first yomikiri, Dragdoll Group to the Tezuka Award but was rejected. The name Dragdoll was created by mixing the word "Dragon" (Doragu) and "Doll" (Dōru) using katana. In 1994, Takei submitted his short story Anna the Itako to the 94th Tezuka Award and won the honourable mention. He was later introduced to Nobuhiro Watsuki and became his assistant along with Eiichiro Oda on Rurouni Kenshin. Takei published his short story Death Zero in Weekly Shōnen Jump Winter Special and Butsu Zone in the Summer Special of 1996. A reworked version of Butsu Zone became his first manga series published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997 where his career truly took off. The series was cancelled after nineteen chapters. Takei came back with his longest running work Shaman King in 1998 inside Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. After seven years of publication, Shaman King was cancelled in 2004 after 284 chapters.

In 2007, Takei returned three years after the conclusion of Shaman King with a new Weekly Shonen Jump series; Jumbor Barutronica. Set in the distant future, construction workers pilot mecha. Baru, the hero is killed and his memories are implanted in his clone body called a "Jumbor". The series was canceled after ten issues and released in one volume.

On March 4, 2008, Japanese publisher Shūeisha announced that Takei would be collaborating on Karakuridôji Ultimo with American comic creator Stan Lee. The project launched with the new Jump SQ.II (Jump Square Second) spinoff manga magazine on April 18, 2008. The announcement of the partnership was made in the April issue of Jump Square magazine.

During the Jump Festa 2008, Shueisha announced a kanzenban reprint of Shaman King. This release reprinted the entire series in 27 volumes complete with new covers while concluding the never-before-published "true ending."

Remake of Jumbor in 2010, Ultra Jump.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-17/tenjho-tenge-shigurui-manga-ending-in-japan

In an interview with Shonen Jump (magazine) he stated that his favorite manga by other authors included Taiyo Kosoku by Baru, Blade of the immortal by Hiroaki Samura, and Hellboy by Mike Mignola. He also cites American comic books, Mecha Anime, Hirohiko Araki of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fame, and Osamu Tezuka as influences.

Fanzines

 * SD Departement Store Series (ＳＤ百貨店シリーズ)
 * Jumbor Japon (Self-published and sold out at Comiket 73)

Unreleased

 * Thunder of Judgement (裁きの雷) (Concept/Script:EXIAD)
 * Dragdoll Group (ドラグドール団) (Rejected submission for the Tezuka Awards)

Character Design

 * Anna-san his the mascot for the police station in the Aomori Prefecture.
 * Smash Bomber (スマッシュボマー) was a series of toys and a manga created for Takara Tomy. Takei was hired as art supervisor and one of his assistant, Katō Gaito (加藤大悟) drawn the manga who ran in V-Jump during issuer number 8 to 10 in 2006. The series was canceled after 3 chapters and never met the intended 197 pages announced in the first chapter.
 * Takei did the character design of Hanhel Tsunagin and his axe True Hash for Phantasy Star Portable 2.