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 ...

. After working as an editor, Kaku began working as manga artist in 2009 with ''Memory Customs'', a

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published in ''

Jump Square , also written as , is a Japanese monthly '' shōnen'' manga magazine. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007 as a replacement for '' Monthly Shōnen Jump'', another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of ...

''. In 2013, he launched his first series, ''Fantasma''. After working as an assistant to

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, Kaku launched his second series, '' Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku'', in ''

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'', which quickly grew in popularity.

Biography

As a child, Kaku often spent time painting and practicing swordplay with his cousin,

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. Tsuruno feels this swordplay experience would influence Kaku's later works. Kaku began working with manga professionally in 2007, when he began working as an editor for ''

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''. After leaving

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in 2008, Kaku wrote a

, titled ''Memory Customs'', which was published in ''

'' in 2009. It later received an honorable mention in the Jump Square Comic Grand Prix. In 2013, Kaku began his first full series, '. It was serialized in ''Jump Square'' until the following year. From 2016 to 2018, Kaku worked as an assistant to

with his work on '' Fire Punch''. In 2018, Kaku began serializing '' Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku'' on the ''

'' website, where it ran until 2021. The series quickly grew in popularity. By August 2018, it was the most popular series on ''Shōnen Jump+''. In the same year, it also ranked eleventh in the

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in the web manga category. In the 2019 edition of ''

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'', the series was one of three series tied for 16th place on its list of the top manga series for male readers. An

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adaptation of the series has also been announced. In 2021, Kaku began serializing ''

Ayashimon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Kaku. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from November 2021 to May 2022. Plot is an unusually strong boy and an avid manga fan who ...

'' in ''

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'', where it ran until 2022.

Works

* (2009) (

published in ''

'') * ' (2013–2014) (serialized in ''Jump Square'') * (2018–2021) (serialized in ''

'') * (2021–2022) (serialized in ''

'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaku, Yuji Comic book editors Living people Manga artists Year of birth missing (living people)