is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist bef ...

. He is most famous for illustrating the series ''

Star of the Giants is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using ...

''. He won the 14th

Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since ...

in 1969 for ''

Animal 1 Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in ...

'' and '' Inakappe Taishō'' as well as the eighth Kodansha Children's Manga Award for ''Star of the Giants'' in 1967 and its successor

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, the event is sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: '' shōnen'', '' shōjo'', and general. The awards began in 1977, initially ...

in '' shōnen'' category for ''Football Hawk'' in 1978. He is also the creator of ''

The Song of Tentomushi is manga series by Noboru Kawasaki published from 1973 to 1975 by Shogakukan in their elementary school study magazines in the ''Shogakukan no Gakushō Zasshi'' series. The manga was collected in four volumes. An anime series adapted from th ...

'', '' Skyers 5'' and '' Kōya no Shōnen Isamu''.

Works

* ''Ame ni mo Makezu'' (4 volumes, 1983) * ''Animal 1'' (4 volumes, 1968) * ''Captain Gorou'' (1 volume, 1968) * ''Daimakujira'' (1 volume, 1968) * ''Doudou Yarou'' (1 volume, 1970) * ''Football Hawk'' (10 volumes, 1977) * ''Fukidamari'' (1 volume, 1976) * ''Honoo no Michi'' (1 volume, 1987) * '' Inakappe Taishō'' (6 volumes, 1970) * ''Isamu the Wilderness Boy'' (12 volumes, 1971) * ''Kuroi Kuroi Tani'' (2 volumes, 1967) * ''Musashi'' (13 volumes, 1974) * ''Otoko no Jouken'' (2 volumes, 1968) * ''Rounin Tanbee Zetsumei'' (1 volume, 1987) * ''Shi no Toride'' (1 volume, 1967) * '' Skyers 5'' (3 volumes, 1966–1968) * ''

(Kyojin no Hoshi)'' written by Ikki Kajiwara (19 volumes, 1966) * ''

Shin Kyojin no Hoshi is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fic ...

'' written by Ikki Kajiwara (11 volumes, 1978) * ''Shinigami Hakase'' 1967 * ''

'' (4 volumes, 1973) * ''Tiger 66'' (1 volume, 1968)

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* Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture People from Osaka 1941 births Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōnen) Living people Gekiga creators {{manga-artist-stub