Career
His mentor was Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note, Hikaru no Go and Bakuman. Yabuki has stated that everything he learned about drawing manga, he learned from Akira Toriyama"s Dragon Balliol Yabuki is best known for his series Black Cat which ran from 2000 to 2004 in Weekly Shōnen Jump and later adapted into an anime.
Both were released in North America.
Upon its ending, Yabuki expressed desire to make a sequel from the series, or make its characters reappear in another work. Since 2004, he has only been working as illustrator to works written by other authors, including the popular To Love-Ru -Troublealongside his former assistant Saki Hasemi.
Yabuki was an extra in the 2003 movie Godzilla: Tokyo South.O.S., running through the streets of Roppongi Hills.