is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaido. Aihara grew up reading the works of

Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu'', – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques an ...

. He made his debut with ''Hachigatsu no Nureta Pantsu'' in 1983, which ran in '' Weekly Manga Action Magazine''. He is one of the authors of ''

Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga , also abbreviated as , is a Japanese parody instructional manga by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Spirits'' from 1989 to 1991, with its chapters collected in three ...

'', a satiric look at the manga industry.

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, Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics Aihara's other best-known works include ''Bunka Jinrui Gag'', ''Koojien'', ''Mujina'' and ''Manka''. ''Manka'' has been described as being similar to

tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Etymology Originally, in the time of the influential poetry anthology (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term ''tanka'' was used to disti ...

in that it shows the breadth of human emotion within the short space of a

yonkoma is a comic strip format that generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom. They also sometimes run right-to-left horizontally or use a hybrid 2×2 style, depending on the layout requiremen ...

. He has also drawn a yonkoma parody of a Japanese dictionary. His work has been described as breaking new ground for themes in comedic manga, and as showing "meticulous detail". He also designed the characters for the RPG video games ''Maka Maka'' and ''Idea no Hi'' (scenario and character design draft).

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*''Hachigatsu no Nureta Pantsu'' *''Katte ni Shirokuma'' *''

'' *''Bunka Jinrui Gag'' *''Koojien'' *''Mujina'' *''Manka'' *''

Z ~Zed~ is a Japanese zombie horror manga series created by Koji Aihara. It's serialized in '' Bessatsu Manga Goraku'' magazine by Nihon Bungeisha. The first volume was published in April 2013. It was adapted into a live action film in 2014 directed ...

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