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Japanese manga artist

Kouta Hirano (平野 耕太, Hirano Kōta, born July 14, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga Hellsing^[1] and Drifters.

Career

Hirano said he learned how to be a manga artist from reading Akira Toriyama and Akira Sakuma's Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo.^[2] Starting his career first as a manga artist's assistant (self-described as "horrible" and "lazy" in said assistant position), and later a hentai manga artist, he went on to enjoy somewhat limited success with other relatively unknown manga titles such as Angel Dust, Coyote, Gun Mania and Hi-Tension.

His first major success came with his manga series Hellsing, which got its start and was subsequently serialized in a monthly manga magazine, Young King OURs, towards the latter half of 1997.

However, Hellsing was not the earliest Hirano series to be published in Young King OURs monthly.

In 1996, the same year