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'Yu-Gi-Oh!' manga creator Kazuki Takahashi found dead in Okinawa

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Manga star and inventor of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Japanese cartoonist Kazuki Takahashi at the Leipzig book fair, Saturday 19 March 2005. EPA/Peter Endig." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/07/07/20220707-kazuki-takahashi.jpg"/><figcaption>Manga star and inventor of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Japanese cartoonist Kazuki Takahashi at the Leipzig book fair, Saturday 19 March 2005. EPA/Peter Endig.</figcaption></figure></div>Kazuki Takahashi, the author of the popular &quot;Yu-Gi-Oh!&quot; manga series, has been found dead after an apparent snorkelling trip in Japan, a coast guard official said Thursday.The 60-year-old was found off the coast of Okinawa in the country&#x27;s south on Wednesday.He was wearing a T-shirt and an underwater mask, snorkel, and fins, the official in the city of Nago, who declined to be named, told AFP.&quot;We are investigating the case as both a possible accident or crime,&quot; he said.Japanese media including public broadcaster NHK said Takahashi was found around 300 meters offshore and pulled from the water.&quot;Yu-Gi-Oh!&quot; ran in the Japanese weekly comic magazine Shonen Jump between 1996 and 2004.It told the story of Yugi, a teenager who receives an ancient puzzle that awakens in him the alter ego of an Egyptian pharaoh.The manga gave rise to a media franchise including a trading card game as well as anime series and films.It was later published as a series of 38 books by Japanese publishing powerhouse Shueisha, which did not issue an immediate statement on Takahashi&#x27;s death.Takahashi wrote under a pen name and his real first name was Kazuo.

Kazuki Takahashi, author of the popular 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' manga series, has been found dead after an apparent snorkelling trip in Japan, a coast guard official said Thursday.