Hometown: Kitakyushu, Japan Blood type: O He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga. Tsukasa Hojo is also Takehiko Inoue's mentor (knowed as mangaka of Slam Dunk) and longtime friend of Fist of the North Star creator Tetsuo Hara. Hojo did the character design of Reina, who was introduced in the 2006 movie Hokuto no Ken: Raō Den - Jun'ai no Shō.