Education
A native of Tokyo, Hara attended Hongo Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist Yoshihiro Takahashi after graduating.
原 哲夫
A native of Tokyo, Hara attended Hongo Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist Yoshihiro Takahashi after graduating.
Hara"s professional career began with his first published work: Mad Fighter in 1982. His first serialized work in the Weekly Shōnen Jump was the Iron Don Quixote, which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. After its completion, he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of Ryu Keiichiro"s novels (Keiji, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sakon).
One of his recent works is Sōten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky), a prequel to Hokuto no Ken, which was serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 until the magazine"s final issue in 2010.
He suffers from keratoconus.