His first manga, an adaptation of the Go-Q-Choji Ikkiman anime series, was serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 1986.
Takahashi had also been supervising the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V manga series written by Shin Yoshida and drawn by Naohito Miyoshi.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on the afternoon of July 7 that the body Yu-Gi-Oh! manga creator Kazuki Takahashi was found floating off the coast of Nago City on Okinawa Island.