(born 15 September 1963 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese
manga artist
A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a Cartoonist, comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga.
Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the indus ...
. He received the 38th
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is ...
for general manga in 1993 for ''Miyamoto kara Kimi e''.
His manga ''
The World Is Mine'' was chosen by the editors of ''
Pulp'' for their Manga Hell list of controversial manga.
He attended
Kawawa High School and graduated from the
Meiji University
is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920.
As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...
.
Works
* ''Hachigatsu no Hikari'' (1 volume)
* ''
Miyamoto kara Kimi e'' (12 volumes)
* ''Amanatsu'' (short story collection, 1 volume)
* ''
Itoshi no Irene'' (6 volumes originally, reprinted in 2)
* ''
The World Is Mine'' (14 volumes, reprinted in 5)
* ''
Kiichi!!'' (9 volumes)
* ''Sugar'' (8 volumes)
* ''Rin'' (3 volumes, serialized in ''
Bessatsu Young Magazine '' - sequel to ''Sugar'')
* ''
Kiichi VS'' (11 volumes, serialized in ''
Big Comic Superior
is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since July 1, 1987, by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for ''Big Comic Original'' and '' Big Comic Spirits''. The magazine has published works by a numb ...
'')
* ''Scatter: Wish you Were Here'' (5 volumes)
* ''Kuuya Shounin ga Ita'' (1 volume)
* ''Sekai, World, Sekai'' (1 volume)
* ''Nagisa Nite'' (3 volumes)
* ''Kiss: Kyoujin, Sora wo Tobu'' (3 volumes)
* ''Hito no Ko'' (2 volumes)
* ''Spunk'' (4 volumes)
References
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1963 births
Living people
Manga artists from Kanagawa Prefecture
Meiji University alumni