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Yuki Tabata is a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He created Hungry Joker, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2013, and Black Clover, which began serialization on the 16th of February, 2015 and ran until 2026.
Black Clover began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 16th of February, 2015. The series later moved to Jump Giga in 2023 before concluding in 2026.
In the first half of 2017, Black Clover was the 28th best-selling manga in Japan. One year later, the entire Black Clover media franchise ranked as the 24th best-selling media franchise in the country.
Tabata has cited Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as a major influence and one of the main reasons he became a manga artist. He has also cited Kentaro Miura's Berserk, Tite Kubo's Bleach, Yoshihiro Togashi's YuYu Hakusho, Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto, and Eiichiro Oda's One Piece as sources of inspiration.
Before launching his own series, Yuki Tabata worked as an assistant to manga artist Toshiaki Iwashiro.
Tabata's first manga series was Hungry Joker, which began as a one-shot that won first place in a Jump award competition in 2011. It was then serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2013.