-- RS per the website about page + referenced in Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/References#Databases.2C indices.2C and other such websites --> He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga.
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The company was founded on June 4, 2000, by former Weekly Shōnen Jump editor-in-chief Nobuhiko Horie (who currently serves as the company's CEO), along with manga artists Tsukasa Hojo, Tetsuo Hara, and Ryuji Tsugihara, and voice actor Akira Kamiya, among others.