
ONE ON ONE
Nadim Abbas on Yoshihiro Togashi
Or, how I discovered the sixth sense via television and comic books
YOSHIHIRO TOGASHI, Spread from Yu Yu Hakusho: Into The Demon Plane!!, 1994. Published by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo. Photo by Nadim Abbas.
People often ask why I decided to become an artist. Instead of saying that it was simply something that I did from an early age and never grew out of, perhaps I should be pinpointing the formative influence of Japanese anime and manga, which is something else I never fully grew out of. For most of my childhood…