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 is best known for ''

Dragon Zakura is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norifusa Mita. Serialized in ''Weekly Morning'' from 2003 to 2007, it was released into 21 ''tankōbon'' by Kodansha between October 22, 2003, and August 23, 2007. It was adapted into ...

'' for which he received the 29th

Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards. The event is sponsored by publisher Kodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977. Categories The award was originally called the until 1968. In 1970, it was ...

. ''Dragon Zakura'' has been adapted to live-action television series in Japan and South Korea, its spin-off series ''Angel Bank'' received live-action television adaptation as well. His manga ''Investor Z'' was adapted into live-action television series in 2018 and ''The Great War of Archimedes'' was adapted into a film in 2019.

Works

*''Eiji's Tailor'' (''

Big Comic Original is a Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at an older adult and mostly male audience. It is a sister magazine to the manga magazine '' Big Comic'', the biggest difference being that it goes on sale twice a month in the weeks ...

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Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but ...

) * (''Manga Goraku Next'',

Nihon Bungeisha , or , is a book and magazine publisher established in 1959 and based in Chiyoda, Tokyo , known as Chiyoda City in English,Monthly Afternoon is a Japanese monthly manga anthology published by Kodansha under the ''Afternoon'' line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. ''Afternoon'' has spawned many successful manga series such as '' Oh My G ...

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Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

) *''Boys of Summer'' (''

Big Comic Spirits is a weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional val ...

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Weekly Playboy , also known as or ''WPB'', is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966. Although the magazine publishes a variety of news and special interest articles, columns, celebrity interviews, and manga, it is considered an adult maga ...

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Weekly Manga Goraku is a Japanese weekly manga magazine published since 1968, by Nihon Bungeisha. The magazine is published every Friday. Serialized works Listed alphabetically by title. *''69 Denashi'' (Yasuhito Yamamoto) *''Ad Boy'' (Makoto Niwano) *''Aisu Otoko ...

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Evening Evening is the period of a day that begins at the end of daylight and overlaps with the beginning of night. It generally indicates the period of time when the sun is close to the horizon and comprises the periods of civil, nautical and astronom ...

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Weekly Young Magazine is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine started on June 16, 1980, and is targeted at the adult male () demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the second and fourth ...

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Weekly Morning is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as and was rebranded as Morning in 1991 while still maintaining its weekly publication tradition. The digital edition of the magazine is titled . It is the sis ...

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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 ...

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Super Jump , was a biweekly manga anthology published by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines. Released in Japan on December 20, 1986, the magazine provided serialized chapters of various seinen manga series. The manga series were published under ...

'', Shueisha) * (''Weekly Per Golf'',

Gakken is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1947 by Hideto Furuoka, which also produces educational toys. Their annual sales are reported at ¥ 90 billion ($789 million US). Gakken publishes educational books and magazines and produces othe ...

) * (''Evening'', Kodansha) * (''Weekly Young Magazine'', Kodansha) * (''Weekly Morning'', Kodansha) * (''Weekly Young Magazine'', Kodansha) * (''Grand Jump'', Shueisha)

References

1958 births Living people Manga artists from Iwate Prefecture Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General) {{manga-artist-stub