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- Birth nameKazuo Takahashi
- Kazuki Takahashi was born on October 4, 1961 in Tokyo, Japan. Kazuki was a writer, known for Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (2011), Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (2016) and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000). Kazuki died on July 6, 2022 in Nago, Okinawa, Japan.
- An unfriendly teacher in school compared him to a defecating machine in front of the class. He defiantly stood up and asked if a defecating machine can create comics.
- His creation Yu-Gi-Oh! initially started out as a manga, and the card game, Duel Monsters, was a fictional in-universe card game for the manga. It became an anime in April 1998 and the card game was de-fictionalized and made real in February 1999 by Konami, named the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. It has since become one of the most successful trading card games in history, selling over 22 billion cards ever since its launch.
- Takahashi considered himself to be a procrastinator. He didn't work until close to a deadline, at which point he always asked himself why he didn't start working earlier.
- His favorite manga are Katsuhiro Ōtomo's "Akira", Hirohiko Araki's "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" and Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball".
- His favorite American comic book hero is Hellboy. He participated with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola in an art exchange: Takahashi drew Hellboy with Yugi Mutou's hairdo and gear, and Mignola drew Hellboy wearing a Millennium Puzzle and a Yugi T-shirt.
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