(born 15 September 1963 in Kanagawa Prefecture) 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 bef ...

. He received the 38th

Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since ...

for general manga in 1993 for ''Miyamoto kara Kimi e''. His manga '' The World Is Mine'' was chosen by the editors of '' Pulp'' for their Manga Hell list of controversial manga. He attended

Kawawa High School Kanagawa Prefectural Kawawa High School (神奈川県立川和高等学校, ''Kanagawa Kenritsu Kawawa Kōtōgakkō'') is a high school in Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Japan, founded in 1962. The school is operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Ed ...

and graduated from the

Meiji University , abbreviated as Meiji (明治) or Meidai (明大'')'', is a private research university located in Chiyoda City, the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1881 as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, ''Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō'') by three Meiji-er ...

Works

* ''Hachigatsu no Hikari'' (1 volume) * '' Miyamoto kara Kimi e'' (12 volumes) * '' Itoshi no Irene'' (6 volumes originally, reprinted in 2) * ''Amanatsu'' (short story collection, 1 volume) * '' The World Is Mine'' (14 volumes, reprinted in 5) * '' Kiichi!!'' (9 volumes) * '' Kiichi VS'' (11 volumes, serialized in ''

Big Comic Superior is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since July 1, 1987 by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for ''Big Comic Original'' and ''Big Comic Spirits''. The magazine has published works by a numb ...

'') * ''Sugar'' (8 volumes) * ''Rin'' (3 volumes, serialized in ''Bessatsu Young Mangazine'' - sequel to ''Sugar'')

References

1963 births Living people Manga artists from Kanagawa Prefecture {{manga-artist-stub