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Mangaka
Male
March 30 1955
Age68
Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
Years Active
1977 - 2020
Buichi Terasawa
寺沢武一
About
[Website](http://www.buichi.com/)
Buichi Terasawa, was a Japanese mangaka pioneer of computer graphic arts. He was the first to introduce computer graphics manga ("TAKERU") in Japan.
Terasawa was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 1998, and despite surgery and chemotherapy, he relapsed and after surgery was left paralysed on the left side of his body. Terasawa died on September 8, 2023, due to a myocardial infarction.