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 be ...

best known as the creator of ''

Needless ''Needless'' (stylized as ''NEEDLESS'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kami Imai. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Ultra Jump'' from October 2003 to June 2013, with its chapters collected in ...

'' which has been adapted into a 24 episode

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

television series by Madhouse.

Works

* ''Angoromoa-chan no Chikyū Shinryaku'' (2004, SoftBank Creative) * ''

'' (2003-2013, serialized in ''

Ultra Jump is a Japanese monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. Originally, the magazine was a special issue of ''Weekly Young Jump'' which was first issued in 1995. On October 19, 1999, the special issue bec ...

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Shueisha (lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...

) * ''Katatsumuri-chan'' (2006-2011, serialized in ''

Manga Time Kirara is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Houbunsha which mainly serializes four-panel manga. The magazine is sold on the ninth of each month and was first published as a special edition of ''Manga Time'', another Houbunsha magazine, on M ...

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Houbunsha is a Japanese publishing company founded on July 10, 1950. It is based in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Magazines published by Houbunsha *'' Weekly Manga Times'' *'' Hana Oto'' *''Comic Fuz'' Manga Time magazines *'' Manga Time'' *'' Manga Time Original' ...

) * ''Shirasunamura'' (2006-2013, serialized in ''

Comic Rex is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Ichijinsha. The first issue was sold on December 9, 2005, and is sold monthly on the ninth. Manga collected into bound volumes which were serialized in this magazine are published under Ichijins ...

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Ichijinsha is a Japanese publishing company focused on manga-related publication, including magazines and books. The company was first established in August 1992 as a limited company under the name Studio DNA whose main purpose was to edit shōnen manga. ...

) * ''

Infinite Dendrogram is a Japanese light novel series written by Sakon Kaidō and illustrated by Taiki. It began serialization online in 2015 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was acquired by Hobby Japan, who published ...

'' (2016-ongoing, serialized in Comic Fire) * Magaimono (2019-ongoing, serialized in Young Magazine the 3rd) * Outside works that appear in the ARCADIA magazine.

References

External links

Official website
* * Manga artists Living people 1980 births {{Manga-artist-stub