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 ...

. In 1981 he was worked as an assistant to

Motoka Murakami is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for '' Gakuto Retsuden'' ( ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for '' Musashi no Ken'' in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for ''Ron'', serialized ...

, and by 1988 he had won the Monthly

Young Jump is a Japanese manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's '' Jump'' line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Young Jump'' are collected and published in volumes under the "You ...

"Rookie of the Year" award. That same year in Shōnen Sunday, his debut serial Akai Pegasus II Sho, the sequel to his master, Motoka Murakami's 1970s Akai Pegasus series. At the beginning of his career he signed his name with

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

, and later changed it to

hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...

Works

(written under the name (hiragana) * (written by

) * * * (written by Kazuya Kudou) * * DAT 13 (written by

Kaoru Shintani is a Japanese manga artist. Shintani is best known for his series ''Area 88''. In addition to his pilot comics, Shintani has ventured into science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and hentai comics as well. In 1985, he was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Aw ...

) * (written by Konasu Akane) (written under the name (kanji) * (written by Shinichi Ishihara) * (written by Yasushi Matsuda) * ODAMARI * * (written by Osamu Ichino) * (written by Seiichi Tanaka) * (written by Fuyuki Shindou) * (written by Yasushi Matsuda) * (written by Yukio Kiyasu) * (written by Sho Narumi)

External links

Kiyokazu Chiba at PRISMS

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1961 births Living people Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture {{Manga-artist-stub