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 also known by the name ''Joker Jun''. In 1991 he replied to a recruitment ad for

Toaplan was a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo responsible for the creation of a wide array of scrolling shooters and other arcade games. The company was founded in 1979 but its gaming division was established in 1984 by former Orca and C ...

. Along with some other staff Inoue was transferred to

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before he left to join

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, where he worked as character and graphic designer, sound producer, and a video game director.

ESP Ra.De. is a 1998 vertical-scrolling bullet hell arcade game originally developed by Cave and co-published by Atlus and Nihon System in Japan. Set in the year 2018, players assume the role from one of the three ESPers to overthrow Lady Garra and her Yas ...

was his first title as graphic director. He debuted as a manga artist in 2002, with his work . He is best known in the West for his manga ''

Btooom! ''Btooom!'' (stylized as ''BTOOOM!'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junya Inoue. It was serialized in Shinchosha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Comic Bunch'', where it ran from 2009 until 2018, with its chapters colle ...

'', which was serialized from 2009 to 2018.

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Junya Inoue
at VGMdb's encyclopedia
Junya Inoue
at Media Arts Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Junya Manga artists from Kōchi Prefecture Living people 1971 births