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Yoshihiro Togashi (冨樫義博)
Yoshihiro Togashi (冨樫義博), Japanese manga artist born 1966 in Yamagata Prefecture; creator of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter in Weekly Shōnen Jump; Tezuka Award winner, husband of Naoko Takeuchi, known for hiatuses.
Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature
The Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature (吉川英治文学賞) is a Japanese literary prize created in 1967 to honor novelist Yoshikawa Eiji, awarded annually for outstanding popular fiction.
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦良和)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦良和) is a Japanese animator, character designer, and manga artist, known for designing Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and creating the manga Arion and Gundam THE ORIGIN.
Yoshiki (林佳樹) (musician)
Yoshiki (林佳樹, Yoshiki Hayashi, born 1965) is a Japanese composer, classically trained pianist, and rock drummer, founder and leader of X Japan and The Last Rockstars, with 30 million records sold and 18 sold-out Tokyo Dome shows.
Yoshimasa Hosoya (細谷佳正)
Yoshimasa Hosoya (細谷佳正) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator, born in 1982, known for Reiner Braun in Attack on Titan and Orga Itsuka in Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the Flaming Lips' 2002 Warner Bros. concept album about Yoshimi P-We fighting robots, featuring "Do You Realize??", a Gold certification, and the band's first Grammy win.
Yoshinoya (吉野家)
Yoshinoya (吉野家) is Japan's oldest major gyudon beef bowl chain, founded 1899 in Nihonbashi, Tokyo; flagship of Yoshinoya Holdings with about 1,291 domestic and 1,095 overseas stores, known for its secret sauce and the 2003-2006 BSE gyudon suspension.
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝)
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝, born 1952, Shizuoka) is a Japanese painter and character designer: Tatsunoko anime (Gatchaman, Time Bokan), Final Fantasy logos and art since 1987, Vampire Hunter D illustrations, and international fine-art exhibitions.
Yoshitaka Minami
Yoshitaka Minami (南佳孝) is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in 1950 in Tokyo who debuted in 1973 and is known for the 1979 hit Monroe Walk.
Yoshitoshi Abe
Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍吉俊, b. 1971), Japanese illustrator and character designer of Serial Experiments Lain; creator of Haibane Renmei; also NieA_7, Texhnolyze, RErideD, and the stalled Despera project.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞), born 1986 in Hokkaido, is a Japanese voice actor with I'm Enterprise known for Kirito (Sword Art Online), Inosuke (Demon Slayer), Vash (Trigun), and a 2019 Guinness record for mobile game dialogue.
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees") is a 1747 Japanese puppet play, one of the three great masterpieces of ningyō jōruri, adapted for kabuki within a year.
Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野由悠季)
Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野由悠季), born 1941 in Odawara, is the Japanese animation director who created Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and directed Ideon, Dunbine, Turn A Gundam, and G-Reco; honored as Person of Cultural Merit and with the 2026 Order of the Rising Sun.
Yōshoku (洋食)
Yōshoku (洋食) is Japanese-style Western cuisine from the Meiji era: dishes like tonkatsu, curry rice, and korokke adapted to Japanese tastes, served with rice and soy-sauce-based sauces, popularized in the Taishō period.
Yosi, the Regretful Spy
Yosi, the Regretful Spy (Iosi, el espía arrepentido) is a 2022-2023 Argentine Prime Video thriller by Daniel Burman, based on Lewin and Lutzky's book about police agent José Pérez, who infiltrated Buenos Aires' Jewish community as Iosi Peres.
Yosl Rakover Talks to God
Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Yossl Rakover ret tsu Got) is a short story by Zvi Kolitz, published in Yiddish in Buenos Aires in 1946.
Yoson An
Yoson An (born 1992) is a Chinese-born, New Zealand-based actor and filmmaker; Hollywood debut as Chen Honghui in Disney's Mulan (2020), lead in Dead Lucky and New Gold Mountain, 2022 Asian Academy Creative Award winner.
YoSoyPlex
YoSoyPlex (@yosoyplex) is the YouTube channel of Daniel Alonso Góndez, known as Plex, a Spanish creator born in 2001 in Toro, Zamora. Started 2014 with Fortnite; famous for three 'Vuelta al Mundo' series, La Velada boxing wins, and ~14.9M subscribers.
Yosra Saouf
Yosra Saouf, also spelled Yousra Saouf (يسرا سعوف), is a Moroccan singer who rose to fame on Arab Idol in 2013, finishing ninth at age 20.
Yosuf
Yosuf is an American hardstyle DJ and producer from Sacramento, California, billed as the most-streamed hardstyle DJ in the USA, with releases on Basscon Records.
Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ)
Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ) is a Japanese romance visual novel with branching routes for five heroines, including a taboo sibling romance, adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2010.
Yōsuke Yamahata
Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, 1917–1966) was a Japanese photographer who recorded Nagasaki on 10 August 1945, the day after the atomic bombing, in more than 100 photographs.
Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび)
Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび, Nighthawk Returns) is a seinen manga by Fuyuki Izumida serialized in Kodansha's Morning since November 2025, about a legendary 33-year-old hitwoman living as an unemployed slob who is invited back into the assassination world.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi, Israeli-born London chef and cookbook author, co-founded the Ottolenghi delis with Sami Tamimi in 2002, wrote Jerusalem, Plenty, and Simple, and champions vegetable-forward Middle Eastern cooking.
Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu Matha for child and mother) is an Australian band formed in 1986 by Yolngu and non-Indigenous musicians from Arnhem Land and Darwin, famed for the 1991 protest hit Treaty, the Tribal Voice album, ARIA and NIMA Hall of Fame inductions, and fusing Yolngu language with rock and dance music.
Yotsuba&! (よつばと!)
Yotsuba&! (よつばと!, Yotsuba to!) is Kiyohiko Azuma's ongoing slice-of-life comedy manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh since 2003, following five-year-old Yotsuba Koiwai; 16 volumes, over 18 million copies, no anime adaptation.
Yotto
Yotto (Otto Yliperttula, born 1986 in Helsinki) is a Finnish deep and melodic house DJ and producer whose debut album Hyperfall topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart in 2018.
Yotzer
Yotzer (Hebrew: יוצר, "He creates") is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, embellishing the blessings around the Shema, named for the blessing "Yotzer Or."
You (season 4)
You season 4 (Netflix, 2023) is the ten-episode London-set fourth season of the thriller, with Joe Goldberg as professor Jonathan Moore hunting the Eat the Rich Killer in a two-part whodunit; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
You (TV series)
You is an American psychological thriller series created by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble from Caroline Kepnes' 2014 novel, starring Penn Badgley as stalker Joe Goldberg; Lifetime 2018, Netflix from 2018, five seasons, ended April 24, 2025.