{{short description|Japanese manga artist}} {{more footnotes needed|date=February 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} {{nihongo|'''Kōsuke Fujishima'''|藤島 康介|Fujishima Kōsuke|born July 7, 1964}} is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He has created several manga series, the best known of which are ''You're Under Arrest!'' and ''Oh My Goddess!.'' Fujishima is known for his love of automobiles and motorcycles, which is reflected in many of his series.
He is also known for being a character designer for several video games, including those from the ''Tales'' series and the first five games from ''Sakura Wars''.
==Early life and career== Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of ''Puff'' magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship. He later became assistant to manga artist Tatsuya Egawa in the production of the ''Making Be Free!'' manga, and in 1986 began his first original manga series ''You're Under Arrest''. His second manga series ''Oh My Goddess!'', also translated as ''Ah! My Goddess'', is Fujishima's most famous work, which made him a household name in Japan. He is also well known as the character designer for several games in the ''Tales'' series and ''Sakura Wars''.
===Personal life=== On June 29, 2016, the famous 20-year-old cosplayer Nekomu Otogi announced her marriage to Fujishima as well as her pregnancy on her Twitter page. Both of them had known each other on Twitter approximately since 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-06-29/20-year-old-cosplayer-announces-marriage-to-51-year-old-oh-my-goddess-author-kousuke-fujishima/.103771|title=20-Year-Old Cosplayer Announces Marriage to 51-Year-Old Oh My Goddess! Author Kousuke Fujishima|publisher=Anime News Network|date=June 30, 2016|access-date=July 2, 2016}}</ref>
On July 7, 2016, Fujishima confirmed the marriage on his Twitter account.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwhcurrent.com/news/fujishima-kousuke-confirms-marriage/|title=Fujishima Kousuke Confirms Marriage|publisher=wwhcurrent|date=July 7, 2016|access-date=July 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710051128/http://wwhcurrent.com/news/fujishima-kousuke-confirms-marriage/|archive-date=July 10, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Fujishima owns a rare Krauser Domani, a motorcycle-like vehicle with an integrated sidecar, which he purchased in 1994 and regularly shows on his Twitter account. <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://gwern.net/doc/anime/eva/1997-ledoux-animeinterviewsthefirst5yearsofanimerica.pdf |title=Anime Interviews: The First Five Years of Animerica, Anime & Manga Monthly (1992-97) |publisher=Cadence Books |date=September 22, 1997 |isbn=978-1569312209 |editor-last=Ledoux |editor-first=Trish |pages=76 |quote=My favorite activities are sleeping, riding motorcycles...I bought a sidecar recently—a German sidecar by the name Krauser Domani—and I’m pretty infatuated with that at the moment.}}</ref>
==Works== {| class="wikitable" width="80%" ! Series !! Year !! Contribution |- |''You're Under Arrest'' |1986–1992 |Author / Illustrator |- |''Oh My Goddess!'' |1988–2014 |Author / Illustrator |- |''Kōryū Densetsu Villgust'' |1992 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Phantasia'' |1994, 1999, 2003, 2006 |Character designer |- |''Sakura Wars'' |1996–2005 |Character designer |- |''éX-Driver'' |2000 |Author / Character and setting designer |- |''Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon'' |2000, 2010 |Character designer |- |''Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart'' |2002 |Original creator / Character designer |- |''Gungrave'' |2002, 2003, 2004 |Mechanical designer |- |''Tales of the World: Summoner's Lineage'' |2003 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Symphonia'' |2003, 2004 |Character designer |- |''Tales of the Abyss'' |2005 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Vesperia'' |2008 |Character designer |- |''Paradise Residence'' |2008–2016 |Author / Illustrator |- |''Tales of Xillia'' |2011 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Xillia 2'' |2012 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Zestiria'' |2015 |Character designer |- |''Tales of Berseria'' |2016 |Character designer |- |''Black Rose Valkyrie'' |2016 |Character designer |- |''Toppu GP'' |2016–present |Author / Illustrator |- |''Tales of Crestoria'' |2020–2022 |Character designer |- |}
==References== <references/> *"Ah! Megami-sama: Tatakau Tsubasa". ''Newtype USA'' '''6''' (12) 15. December 2007. {{ISSN|1541-4817}}. *Nakagami, Yoshikatsu et al. "You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle". ''Newtype USA'' '''6''' (12) 48–49. December 2007. {{ISSN|1541-4817}}.
==External links== *{{anime News Network|people|id=5436}} *[https://x.com/fujishimakosuke Kōsuke Fujishima] at X (Twitter)
{{You're Under Arrest}} {{Oh My Goddess}} {{Gungrave series}} {{Kodansha Manga Award - General}} {{Authority control}}
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