Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue is a Japanese manga artist who debuted in 1988 with the Tezuka Award-winning one-shot Kaede Purple after working as an assistant to Tsukasa Hojo on City Hunter. His basketball series Slam Dunk, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1996, sold over 120 million copies in Japan alone and won the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award. He is also known for the samurai manga Vagabond, which earned the Kodansha Manga Award and the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and the wheelchair-basketball manga Real.