The following information was taken from the "Oh My Goddess!"
Trade Paperback, "1-555-GODDESS" published in North America by Dark Horse Comics.
osuke Fujishima was born July 7, 1964 in Chiba, Japan. His blood type
B.
After graduating from high school, he got a job as editor for Puff
a comics news magazine. Rumors are that he was responsible for the
parody comic called "X-pa no Yoko-chan" that ran in Puff.
One of his jobs as an editor was to interview Tatsuya Egawa, who was runing
his "Be Free!" serial in Kodansha's Comic Morning magazine. After
the interview, Fujishima built up the courage to ask Egawa if he needed an
assistant. Egawa examined Fujishima's work and replied, "Sure!" Thus,
Kousuke Fujishima explores the abyss of a comic-artist nightmare.
Fujishima generally dates his debut as a professional comic-artist with the
publication of a comics-style report he did for Comic Morning on
the making of the 1986 live-action, theatrical-movie version of "Be Free!"
The fans loved his work, and Morning recieved a fan letter raving about
the policewoman characters Fujishima has used in the Making of Be Free!
report. He got inspired by the letter and created his first series, You're
Under Arrest!, which first began in in 1986.
In 1988, Fujishima did a four-panel gag cartoon that featured the characters
from You're Under Arrest! praying to a goddess. It was a contest in which
readers could win various You're Under Arrest! presents, like T-shirts.
In the cartoon, Miyuki and Natsumi were asking the goddess to let them win the
contest. Fujishiima was so pleased with the way the goddess had turned out that
she became the basis for Belldandy and inspired the creation of the Oh My Goddess!
series for Afternoon magazine.
By now you can see that Fujishima gets some of his ideas and storylines from minor
characters he creates for a totally different purpose.
Fujishima has a incredibly large amount of hobbies! Ranging from playing electric
guitar and with his new Mac, building plastic models and garage kits, and taking care
of his numerous tropical fish. He also owns, rides and repairs his seven (!!)
motorcycles and three cars. Fujishima is a really loves motorcycles and that's why
he has motorcycles in "You're Under Arrest" and why Keiichi is in the NIT Motorcycle
club. Fujishima listens to DMX; a digital, commercial-free radio service, while he works,
and he likes classic American rock such as Van Halen and Bon Jovi! He laso likes Japanese
idol singers, in fact, there is a very convincing rumor that the name "Morisato" comes
from the name of the idol singer Moritaka Chisato! (kool eh?)
Mr. Fujishima has also won a 1992 Tezuka Award for his previous work, "You're Under Arrest".