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Yūki Tabata

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Yūki Tabata 「田畠裕基 Tabata Yūki」 (born July 30, 1984) is a Japanese comic book artist 「漫画家 mangaka」 who is known for his Black Clover series. He is from Fukuoka prefecture in Japan.

Personal life

Tabata married an undisclosed person a few months before the serialization for Black Clover began.[1][2] Over the summer of 2019, the couple had their first child, a daughter.[3][4] The family share a dog named Amélie.[5]

Career

Yūki Tabata began his career as a rookie when he submitted his first work, Grave Keeper HAKAMORI for 2001 Tenkaichi Manga Award, wherein he received a Special Jury Prize. He then submitted another one-shot, Blue Steady for a Rookie Manga Award in 2003, where he was one of the finalists. In 2004, Tabata entered the Tezuka Award competition where he received an honorable mention for his work, XXX WITH NO NAME. Tabata then began his professional career when he published a one-shot, Garance, in 2005 Akamaru Jump.

In 2011, Tabata entered the Golden Future Cup, which allowed him to publish a one-shot in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine as part of a competition. He published a one-shot called Hungry Joker and managed to win the aforementioned competition. This resulted in his one-shot being considered for a serialization by the magazine. The serialization for Hungry Joker began in November 2012 at the magazine's 50th issue of the year. The series received various criticisms due to the major departure that the series had taken from the original one-shot. Due to this, Hungry Joker failed to achieve popularity and was cancelled after 24 chapters in May 2013 at the magazine's 24th issue of the year.

A year later, Tabata published a new one-shot in Jump NEXT magazine's 2nd issue of 2014, called Black Clover. The one-shot was once again considered for serialization for Weekly Shōnen Jump and it began serialization in February 2015 at the magazine's 12th issue of the year. For his second serialization, Tabata decided to take a much closer inspiration from the original one-shot where the main characters' design and personalities, along with the fundamental settings, were carried through in the series. As of January 23, 2022, the series has published 320 chapters and is still ongoing for the foreseeable future.

Body of Works

One-shots

  • Grave Keeper HAKAMORI 「墓守 HAKAMORI Hakamori HAKAMORI」: published in Tenkaichi Manga Award August 31, 2001.
  • Blue Steady: published in Rookie Manga Award June, 2003.
  • XXX WITH NO NAME: published in 2004 Tezuka Award.
  • Garance 「ガランス Garansu」: professional debut, published in Akamaru Jump issue Winter 2005.
  • Hungry Joker 「HUNGRY JOKER（ハングリージョーカー） Hangurī Jōkā」: published in Weekly Shōnen Jump issue 37, 2011.
  • Black Clover 「ブラック・クローバー Burakku Kurōbā」: published in Jump NEXT issue 2, 2014.

Series

  • Hungry Joker 「HUNGRY JOKER（ハングリージョーカー） Hangurī Jōkā」: published in Weekly Shōnen Jump issue 50, 2012 - issue 24, 2013 and collected into 3 volumes.
  • Black Clover 「ブラッククローバー Burakku Kurōbā」: published in Weekly Shōnen Jump issue 12, 2015 - issue 38, 2023 and transferred to Jump GIGA from issue Winter 2024 - ongoing.

Staff

Tabata's Blank Page Brigade 「白紙の原稿団 Hakushi no Genkō-dan」 where he is the "captain." Each volume has a page or more where he, his wife, and the staff answer a question; assistants also include a drawing with their answers.

Editors

Comics Editors

Media Editors

  • Keiichirō Takahashi 「高橋慶一朗 Takahashi Keiichirō」 (Volume 28 (known) - Volume 35)
  • Kodaira 「小平」 (Volume 36 - Ongoing)

Designers

  • Iwai 「岩井」 (Volume 5 (known) - Volume 19)
    • It is unknown if the position is vacant, or if replacement designers have simply opted to not comment in the Blank Page Brigade

Assistants

Main article: Assistants

Illustrations

Trivia

  • Tabata represents himself as a bird holding a fountain pen when commenting in Weekly Shonen Jump's Table of Contents, the Blank Page Brigade, and other places.
    • The kanji on the bird's forehead is 欲 which can mean "desire", "greed", and "ambition."

References

  1. ↑ Issue 13, 2015 Author Comments
  2. ↑ Black Clover Manga — Vol. 1, Afterword
  3. ↑ Issue 34, 2019 Author Comments
  4. ↑ Black Clover Manga — Vol. 22, Author's Note
  5. ↑ Black Clover Manga — Vol. 28, Author’s Note
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