is a Japanese

columnist A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Column (newspaper), Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the fo ...

and

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

. Born in Tokyo to

Jun'ichi Natsume Jun'ichi or Junichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Junichi can be written using different kanji characters. "Ichi" is nearly always written with the character ("one") or its ''daiji'' (large numerals) form , while "jun" mi ...

, grandson of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973. He was awarded the

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan. Current ...

(Special Award) in 1999 for the excellence criticism of manga. He has written the book (2005), which was illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga.

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Official blog
Anime and manga critics Aoyama Gakuin University alumni Japanese writers Living people 1950 births Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Special Award) {{anime-bio-stub