Person: Okazaki Takashi

Okazaki Takashi is a Japanese manga artist, visual designer, and graphic designer most notable for writing and illustrating the manga series Afro Samurai.

Okazaki Takashi was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture and graduated from the Tama University of the Arts.

Okazaki Takashi was one of four people to debut in the self-published Nou Nou Hau manga magazine on November 1998. Okazaki's first series Afro Samurai was first published as a doujinshi in the preparatory issue zero of the magazine, which was also featured as the cover. Afro Samurai was serialized till the magazine's end on September 2002. Since then, the Afro Samurai manga has been adapted into a five-episode anime series and a made-for-TV feature film named Afro Samurai: Resurrection. After the release of the anime series, Okazaki went back and recreated the original doujinshi into a two-volume manga series which has only been released in the United States by Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment. On November 23, 2004, Okazaki wrote and illustrated a 9-panel manga published in the pamphlet of the Blade: Trinity soundtrack. Okazaki also illustrated the ending of the Cho-Kouryu-Goujin Danke Choen (超交流合神ダンケシェーン) series serialized in a flyer handed out at the Japanese club "UNIT". Cho-Kouryu-Goujin Danke Choen was created by Kugelblitz—a collaborative effort between Nou Nou Hau and the German comic magazine Moga Mobo.