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Yasuhiro Nightow

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Yasuhiro Nightow (内藤 泰弘 Naitō Yasuhiro) is a mangaka who created the anime and manga Trigun.

Nightow was born on April 8, 1967 in Yokohama, Japan. He moved to Yokosuka when he was in elementary school, and spent the junior high and high school years in Shizuoka. Yasuhiro Nightow has been a manga artist for about eleven years, and is recently popular in the US thanks to the US release of Trigun. Trigun, the TV series, had a limited broadcast run in 1998 yet proved to be quite popular. Yasuhiro enjoies toy collecting, nori (in all it's forms), and abhors advocados.


One question that was asked that everybody that is a fan of Trigun wants to know: What is the significance of Kuroneko-sama (Lord Black Cat), that appears at random moments in his work and at least once an episode in the TV series but seems to serve no purpose? 

   His answer, which he said in English: "Kuroneko-sama is a small black cat."

When asked if his characters ever surprise him by what they say, he said, "Millie. She surprises me every time she says something."

Nightow also created the characters and story for the Sega/Red Entertainment anime and video game series Gungrave.

He attended Anime Expo in 2000 and Otakon in 2002.


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