Known for

Writing

Born

Mar 30, 1955

Died

Sep 8, 2023 (aged 68)

Buichi Terasawa

Buichi Terasawa was born in 1955 in Hokkaido. In 1976, he moved to Tokyo to study under Osamu Tezuka. Terasawa published the Space Adventure Cobra manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1978 to 1984. The manga followed the titular Cobra, a man who can turn his left arm into a gun, and who is on the run from authorities and nefarious forces due to his mysterious past. 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. During the 1980s, Terasawa had begun using computers to make manga. He was the creator of the Kabuto and Black Knight Bat manga. He also created the Takeru manga, which is considered the first comic book series made using computer graphics. Buichi Terasawa passed away due to a heart attack on September 8th, 2023.

Titles

Cobra The Animation: The Psycho-Gun

Series • 2008

Goku Midnight Eye

Series • 1989

Cobra the Animation

Series • 2008

Space Adventure Cobra

Movie • 1982

Goku: Midnight Eye

Movie • 1989

Goku II: Midnight Eye

Movie • 1989

Manga!

Movie • 1994

Cobra the Animation: The Psycho-Gun

Movie • 2008