When he wrote for Kodansha for the first time, he used the pen name Sho Fumimura. Its title was later changed to Pink! Punch! Miyabi. He began his first serial, Crime Sweeper with Gorō Sakai in 1973. He was credited by the pen name Buronson, a nickname given to him by colleagues at Motomiya's studio after they all saw the film Adieu l'ami and felt he was similar to its actor Charles Bronson. He made his manga writing debut in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1972 with the one-shot Gorō-kun Tōjō, illustrated by Yō Hasebe. In 1970 he left the Self-Defense Force and was hired by Hiroshi Motomiya as a manga assistant in 1971. He graduated from there in 1967 and served as an Air Force radar mechanic. Īfter leaving junior high school, Buronson entered the Japan Air Self-Defense Force because his family was poor.
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Tuition is free, and students attend 20 lectures from professional writers, artists and editors throughout the year for a total of 100 hours. The following year he started a manga school, Buronson 100-Hour Manga Academy ( 武論尊100時間漫画塾), at the Sakudaira Community Center in Saku on April 15. In 2017, he established a scholarship program in his hometown. Buronson received a Special Award at the 2021 Saito Takao Awards for his continued contributions to manga, including his training of younger artists. He has since worked with Ryoichi Ikegami on several series, including Heat (1998–2004), which won the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
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He is best-known for creating the post-apocalyptic martial arts series Fist of the North Star (1983–1988) with artist Tetsuo Hara, which is one of the best-selling manga in history with over 100 million copies in circulation. Making his debut in 1972, he first found success with the hardboiled detective manga series Doberman Deka (1975–1979) alongside illustrator Shinji Hiramatsu. Yoshiyuki Okamura ( Japanese: 岡村 善行, Hepburn: Okamura Yoshiyuki), known by the pen names Buronson ( 武論尊) and Sho Fumimura ( 史村 翔, Fumimura Shō), is a Japanese manga writer.