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 ...

, who is best known for the manga ''

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''. He also created a number of one shot manga prior to that, also published in Kadokawa magazines. ''Grenadier'' started with two one-offs in November 2000 and February 2001, but didn't begin regular serialisation until June 2002. At the end of 2004, a 12 episode

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series was created by

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and

Group TAC was a Japanese animation and computer graphics studio located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and founded in 1968 from former Mushi Pro or Mushi Pro for short, is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Fujimidai, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. It previously ...

, and broadcast on the

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WOWOW. The seventh and last

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of the manga was published 26 May 2005.

Works

* , 2003–2005, Shōnen Ace (

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 ...

) * , 2008, Comic Charge (

) * , 2009, Comic Valkyrie'

One shots

* ''Insect Mission'', July 1999 '' Shōnen Ace'' * ''Sora Sekai'' (空想世界), May 1999 ''Shōnen Ace'' * ''Tasogare Asobi'' (黄昏アソビ), September 1999 ''Shōnen Ace'' * ''White'', February 2000 ''Shōnen Ace'' * ''Skull Rabbit'' (スカル·ラビット), February 2000 '' Ace Next'' * ''Teru x 2 Hiyori'' (てる×2日和), June 2000 ''Shōnen Ace'' * ''Slugger'' (スラッガー), July 2000 ''Ace Next'' * ''Invisible Kingdom Series "Good Morning"'', January 2002 ''Ace Next''

References

External links

Kadokawa ''Grenadier'' website
(Japanese)
Authors under 'ka', from 麒麟舘
(Japanese)

(Japanese) * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Manga artists from Shizuoka Prefecture {{manga-artist-stub