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Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月伸宏 ''Watsuki Nobuhiro''; born May 26 , 1970 ) is a Manga-ka , best known for his Samurai -themed series '' Rurouni Kenshin ''. He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi Obata , and is influenced by Marvel comics such as the X-men, Spiderman, Hulk when making his characters. Nobuhiro Watsuki was born in Tokyo , Japan . When Watsuki was a young boy, his brother, who was three years older, drew Manga. Watsuki’s older brother was his role model so he started drawing Manga as well. Watsuki was also inspired by various Manga artists of the older times. A few of them were Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko F. Fujio . Later on, his brother stopped drawing manga but, “Because Mr. Watsuki was dumb, he kept drawing it (manga) for a while.” When Watsuki was in middle school, he practiced kendo. Kendo is the art of wooden swords. He still drew Manga but also wanted to partake in sports. Watsuki admits that he was very weak. “So weak in fact,” says Watsuki, “That I was an embarrassment to my 183 centimeters of height.” (RK vol. 1) Watsuki never won a kendo match. One time, though, he was selected to be a starter. This happened because the boy who was supposed to start was suspended for causing an uproar. After a while, Watsuki got frustrated with kendo, and eventually quit. When he was challenged to come up with a new character for ''Rurouni Kenshin'', he used his outlook on kendo for a base of Myōjin Yahiko . Nobuhiro Watsuki has had many works in the past. In high school he won the Hop Step award for his work on his comic sleeve he called ''Podmark''. Not much is known about ''Podmark'' because it has not been translated to English. Later on, Watsuki was an assistant in the work of Arabian Lamp-Lamp. The model for Sagara Sanosuke was based on a different version of Lamp. In 1994 a new sleeve was created and published in Shonen Jump Weekly. It seems that this was the first sleeve about ''Rurouni Kenshin''. His most recent work, Buso Renkin (Armored Alchemist) was published on June 2003, also in Jump. When not working on manga, Watsuki enjoys playing video games, reading other manga, and watching television. His favorite American Comic book is '' X-men '' because he likes the action. His favorite Anime (other than his own) is Neon Genesis Evangelion . He likes video games like samurai spirit and things of that sort. He also enjoys action movies like Die Hard and The Matrix . Watsuki bases many of his characters on real people. For example, Himura Kenshin was thought up on terms of a real man named Kawakami Gensai . Gensai was one of the top four hitokiris (assassins) during the Bakumatsu (Japanese revolution). He was the master of the sword style called shiranui-ryu. Gensai is famous for felling the famous idealist Sakuma Shozan. He wandered aimlessly through Japan after the war because he was unable to let go of his duty to his fallen comrades. The idea for Kenshin was brought by this part of Gensai. Four years after the revolution ended, Gensai was falsely accused of a crime and was executed with his own sword. Watsuki admires Kenshin for his wishing to do well because of those whom he killed to bring up the Mejii government. A few other characters were brought up by real people as well. For instance, Saitō Hajime was actually a real person with a group called the Shinsen-gumi. They were against the Meiji government. There were two men by the names of Harada Sanosuke and Saitō Hajame. Hajame was a very calm and collected man who was more worried for his cause than his own life. Harada, who later became the model for Sagara, was more of a comedy type guy. As one could easily tell, Watsuki was a big fan of the Shinsengumi. A favorite of Watsuki's is Shishio Makoto, one of the main villians who also was a bloody hitokiri like Kenshin. He is generally insane in character whose entire body is wrapped in bandages. Watsuki enjoyed making him because he got to use all the evil parts of his mind. MANGA WORKS
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