Career
Hiroyuki Takei started drawing manga with writer EXIAD on South Dakota Département Store Series which they created for a fanzine. Early in his career, he became the assistant to Tamakichi Sakura on The Form of Happiness (しあわせのかたち, Shiawase no Katachi) as Turtle-san (カメさん, Kame-san) in 1992 and Kōji Kiriyama (Ninku). He was later introduced to Nobuhiro Watsuki and became his assistant along with Eiichiro Oda on Rurouni Kenshin.
Takei published his short story Death Zero in Weekly Shōnen Jump Winter Special and Butsu Zone in the Summer Special of 1996.
A reworked version of Butsu Zone became his first manga series published in Weekly Shōnen Jump of 1997. Takei"s longest running series, Shaman King began serialization in Shueisha"s Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998, though was forced to conclude in 2004.
In 2007, Takei returned three years after the conclusion of Shaman King with a new Weekly Shōnen Jump series. Jumbor Barutronica. Secretariat in the distant future, construction workers pilot mecha.
One of them is killed and his memories are implanted in his clone, a thirty-year-old man in a five-year-old superpowered construction tool body.
The series was canceled after ten issues and released in one volume. During the Jump Festa 2008, Shueisha announced a kanzenban reprint of Shaman King. This release reprinted the entire series in 27 volumes complete with new covers while concluding the never-before-published "true ending." On March 4, 2008, Japanese publisher Shūeisha announced that Takei would be collaborating on Karakuri Dôji Ultimo with American comic creator Stan Lee.
The project launched with the new Jump SQ.II (Jump Square Second) spinoff manga magazine on April 18, 2008.
The announcement of the partnership was made in the April issue of Jump Square magazine. As of 2010, Takei is working on two monthly series Jumbor, written by Hiromasa Mikami (御上 裕真, Mikami Hiromasa) and Karakuri Dôji Ultimo with Stan Lee.
He also cites American comic books, Mecha Anime, Hirohiko Araki of JoJo"s Bizarre Adventure fame, and Osamu Tezuka as influences.
