原哲夫

• Born 1961-09-02

Tetsuo Hara is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for co-creating the post-apocalyptic martial arts series *Fist of the North Star* (1983–1988) with writer Buronson, which is one of the best-selling manga in history with over 100 million copies in circulation. His next long-running serial was *Keij*i, a period piece published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1990 to 1993 and loosely based on a novel by Keiichiro Ryu. Hara serialized *Fist of the Blue Sky*, a prequel to Fist of the North Star, in Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 until the magazine's final issue in 2010. Hara went on to create *Ikusa no Ko: The Legend of Nobunaga Oda*, written by Seibo Kitahara and published in Monthly Comic Zenon from 2010 to 2022.