Kazuki Takahashi | |||||
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 Takahashi at the 2005 Leipzig Book Fair | |||||
| Born | Takahashi Kazuo (高橋 一雅) October 4, 1961 | ||||
| Died | July 4, 2022 (aged 60) Nago, Okinawa, Japan | ||||
| Occupation | Manga artist | ||||
| Years active | 1981–2020 | ||||
| Organization | Studio Dice | ||||
| Notable work | Yu-Gi-Oh! | ||||
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| Kanji | 高橋 和希 | ||||
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| Website | studio-dice | ||||
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Kazuo Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋 一雅, Hepburn: Takahashi Kazuo, October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022), known professionally as Kazuki Takahashi (高橋 和希, Takahashi Kazuki), was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2004. The manga spawned a trading card game of the same name, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game of all time.