Artist
Kentarou Yabuki
矢吹健太朗
- Mangaka
Official links & profiles
At a glance
Kaidomi catalogues Kentarou Yabuki as Mangaka. The catalogue records 12 title-backed credits. Documented work includes Nisekoi, To Love Ru and To Love Ru Darkness. This artist hub connects works, roles and official profiles.
Source biography
A Japanese manga artist. His mentor was Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note, Hikaru no Go, Bakuman and Platinum End. The mangaka Shinohara Kenta is his brother-in-law.
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Yabuki is best known for his series Black Cat, which ran from 2000 to 2004 in Weekly Shounen Jump and later adapted into an anime. Upon its ending, Yabuki expressed desire to make a sequel from the series, or make its characters reappear in another work. From 2004 to 2020, he only worked as illustrator to works written by other authors, most notably on To Love-Ru alongside his former assistant Saki Hasemi. That was until the release of Ayakashi Triangle on the pages of Shounen Jump in 2020.
Known for
12 title-backed credits in the catalogue
Works made
NisekoiEndcard (ep 18)Anime · 2014
To Love RuOriginal Character DesignAnime · 2008
To Love Ru DarknessOriginal Character DesignAnime · 2012
Motto To Love RuOriginal Character DesignAnime · 2010
To Love Ru Darkness 2Original Character DesignAnime · 2015
Black CatOriginal CreatorAnime · 2005
To LOVE-Ru OVAOriginal Character DesignAnime · 2009
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!Endcard (ep 2)Anime · 2012