This manga also performed very well commercially, with the first 20 volumes selling nearly 55 million copies in Japan as of August 2011. The story revolves around the protagonist Gon Freecss, a young boy in search of his father, who is a legendary, elite member of society called a "Hunter". Togashi's next major series Hunter × Hunter ( ハンター×ハンター), an action-adventure manga, began serialization in 1998. Level E was adapted into an anime television series in 2011. Comprising three volumes, it was first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1995 and ran until 1997. In 1995, he created Level E ( レベルE), a science fiction-comedy manga.
The manga, which lasted 175 chapters over 19 tankōbon from 1990 to 1994, went on to sell over 50 million copies worldwide, earned Togashi a Shogakukan Manga Award in 1994, and received a hit anime adaptation. Based on his interests in the occult and in horror films, the plot features the character Yusuke Urameshi, who is killed and brought back to life as an "Underworld Detective". In 1990, Togashi made a name for himself with his next series YuYu Hakusho ( 幽☆遊☆白書, lit. An Ill-tempered Cupid in Heaven), a four-volume romance manga involving the relationship between a normal, human boy and a beautiful, devil girl. Between 19, Togashi authored Ten de Shōwaru Cupid ( てんで性悪キューピッド, lit.
Weekly Shōnen Jump published some of the stories prior to a tankōbon release in 1989. I'm Not Afraid of the Wolf!!), a collection of comedy manga short-stories. Togashi's earliest published works for Shueisha include Ōkami Nante Kowakunai!! ( 狼なんて怖くない!!, lit. After having given up his goal of becoming a teacher, Togashi was contacted by an editor of Weekly Shōnen Jump during his senior year of college, who asked him to move to Tokyo.
Another manga by Togashi titled Jura no Mizuki ( ジュラのミヅキ) was an honorable mention in Shueisha's first annual Hop Step Award Selection magazine, published in 1988.
In 1986, at age 20, he authored a manga titled Buttobi Straight ( ぶっとびストレート, Buttobi Sutorēto) for which he received the Tezuka Award, the most prestigious award for new comic artists in Japan. During college he submitted some of his manga work to Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. In high school, Togashi joined the fine-arts club he later enrolled at Yamagata University where he studied education in the hope of becoming a teacher. Born in Shinjō, Yamagata to a family that owned a paper shop, Togashi began drawing manga casually in his first to second year of elementary school.
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