- Born
- Nicknames
- Tooru Fujisawa
- Tohru Fujisawa
- Toru Fujisawa
- A Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjou Boy, published from 1989 in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Fujisawa's best-known work is Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) about a biker, Eikichi Onizuka, and his attempt to become and remain a teacher. It is a sequel to Shounan Jun'ai Gumi! and its side story Bad Company. In 1998, Fujisawa won the Kodansha Manga Award for Great Teacher Onizuka.- IMDb mini biography by: AniList
- SpouseAyano Sugiyama(October 12, 2010 - present)
- Fujisawa originally wanted to be in animation but decided manga would give him more freedom.
- He cites manga drama writers Shuichi Shigeno and Katsuhiro Ôtomo as an influence on his work.
- Born and raised in Hokkaido, Fujisawa moved to Tokyo by himself at the age of 17 to become a manga artist.
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