Terasawa, who had previously had brain tumor surgery, passed away from a heart attack on September 8.
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The official Twitter account of the Space Adventure Cobra manga creator Buichi Terasawa’s work revealed on Monday that Terasawa passed away due to a heart attack on September 8. He was 68 years old.
In 2003, Terasawa revealed that he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 1998 and that he underwent surgery. He also revealed that despite treatment with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the cancer recurred. The second surgery left him paralyzed on the left side of his body.
Terasawa was born in 1955 in Hokkaido. In 1976, he moved to Tokyo to study with Osamu Tezuka.
Terasawa published the Cobra manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1978 to 1984. The manga follows Cobra, a man who can turn left holding a gun and is on the run from authorities and nefarious forces because of his past. his mysterious past. The manga was adapted into a film and a 31-episode television anime in 1982. The Space Adventure Cobra-The Movie anime premiered in July 1982, three months before the television series premiered. Terasawa launched the sequel manga Cobra: Over the Rainbow on Kadokawa’s Comic Walker and Nico Nico Manga websites in November 2019.
Terasawa launched the Goku-Midnight Eye manga in 1987. The manga inspired two original video anime (OVA) in 1989. During the 1980s, Terasawa began using computers to make manga. He is the author of the manga Kabuto and Black Knight Bat. He is also the author of the manga Takeru, considered the first manga to use computer graphics.
Source: Twitter of Buichi Terasawa works accountSponichi Appendix
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