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 ...

. He is best known for his manga series '' Future Diary'' and '' Big Order''. Esuno started drawing at age 15, at the time he was an admirer of the works of

Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with ''Urusei Yatsura'' in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, where they have ...

in particular her horror manga ''

Mermaid Saga is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It consists of 9 stories told in 16 chapters irregularly published in Shogakukan's '' Shōnen Sunday Zōkan'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from 1984 to 1994. In North A ...

''. After working as a manga assistant for many years he managed to become a professional manga artist when his story won a prize in a contest held by

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines s ...

in 2001. In the 2017 May issue of ''

Monthly Shōnen Ace is a monthly shōnen manga magazine in Japan published by Kadokawa Shoten, started in 1994. Unlike the big shōnen weeklies with circulation figures in the millions, ''Ace'' is aimed at a less mainstream audience, and has a particular emphasis ...

'' magazine, he launched a new manga titled ''Tantei Akechi wa Kyōran su'' (The Detective Akechi is Berserk), a tribute to the works of Edogawa Ranpo. The manga ended in the issue published in December 2018. In May 2019, he started the serialization of the manga adaptation of Bokuto Uno's light novel series '' Reign of the Seven Spellblades'' in ''Monthly Shōnen Ace''.

Works

* (June 2004–November 2005, ''

'') * (January 2006–December 2010, ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'') ** (2008) ** (2008) ** (2013) * (November 2011–September 2016, ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'') * (May 2017–December 2018, ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'') * (May 2019–ongoing, ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'', manga adaptation of the light novel series of the same name by Bokuto Uno)

References

1973 births Living people Manga artists from Shizuoka Prefecture {{manga-artist-stub