Kazuki Takahashi Quotes

While I was in Spain, a terrorist attack occurred near my hotel! I would like to sincerely pray for the repose of the souls of those affected. Looking towards the future, we must never succumb to negative intentions! We must not lose to warmongers who stir up religious conflicts!

It's quite interesting to look at the American version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! comics' sound effects. For example, "Boom!" is translated as "CHOOM"!!

I have Final Fantasy VIII on hand, but I haven't played Final Fantasy VII either. I want to try Final Fantasy VIII soon!!

I bought the teddy bear that appears in Mr. Bean. It's the strange looking stuffed toy I talked about...

In the past, I've always heard that aojiru is tasteless, but when I actually tried it... The latest ones are easy to drink and tasty. I'm addicted to them!

Apparently, a statue of Yugi will be erected at the Sapporo Snow Festival!! Hmm, I want to see it too!!

Is there anything we can do about the excessive packaging of domestically produced CDs these days? I wish they could make it cheaper...

The threat of natural disasters is repeatedly shown on TV. Even though those images make me shiver, gasp, and freeze, I can still eat a decent meal and wrap myself up to stay warm. How valuable are these actions we do everyday? I wonder if, ironically, we won't even realize its value until we witness the death of people and towns.

Unfortunately, my body fat percentage has entered the obese range!! I decide to go to the swimming gym again.

A question that I am guaranteed to get asked when interviewed overseas is “What was the prompt that caused you to draw Yu-Gi-Oh!?”. And that sure is a troubling question. The response I usually give involves putting on a lot of air and saying “I wanted to work with a new perspective on games as a concept and write a battle story that had been unseen before and blah blah blah…” or something of the likes, but truth to be told, I myself don’t really know. It might have been “I just suddenly had the thought…”, or “I just wanted to draw the character Yugi.”… well, that also is part of it.

I'm currently obsessed with the yellow mouse. There are three large ones in my workplace. Very cute.

In this series, I hope I can utilize the fun of orienteering that I experienced when I was in elementary school.

I've got Digimon!! I've raised it and put it into a fight, and then it died. There's no one around me having it...

It is said that everything that exists in this world is made up of two contradictory qualities. Darkness and light, outer and inner, good and evil, heaven and earth... Those are the themes of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Nice to meet you. I am Kazuo Takahashi, the person who is having a comfortable life by making full use of my personal assets, in which my credit card installments are paid in 36 times. (!?) I'm very grateful and excited that I'm able to start manga serialization under the life that filled with uncertainty, such as blackouts, inability to make phone calls and other obstacles from everywhere.