, real name Shūji Satō (佐藤修司 ''Satō Shūji'', born December 19, 1957, in

Kutchan is a town located in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Kutchan lies slightly north of the volcano Mount Yōtei, and is approximately 50 kilometers west of Sapporo. The subprefecture government offices are located in this town, making it ...

, Abuta District,

Hokkaidō is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

), 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 ...

. Yuki graduated from Kutchan High School. He is a member of the artist group known as

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. In 1991, his manga '' Mobile Police Patlabor'' received the 36th

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 shōnen.

Works

*'' Aliens Next Door'' (1

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

) *''

Assemble Insert is a 1985 manga series by Masami Yuki (best known for his manga and anime series '' Mobile Police Patlabor''). The main character is a young would-be idol singer and high school student, Maron Namikaze, who has superhuman strength. She battl ...

'' *'' Atom: The Beginning'' *''

Birdy the Mighty is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. His initial attempt with the story ran in Shogakukan's ''Shōnen Sunday Zōkan'' from 1985 to 1988, but it was eventually abandoned. Over a decade later, Yuki began a re ...

'' **Original version: 1 tankōbon **Remake: 20 tankōbon as of October 2008 *'' Birdy the Mighty: Evolution'' ** 13 tankōbon as of October 2012 *'' Doyō Wide Satsujin Jiken'' (1 tankōbon, co-authored with

Miki Tori , also known as Micky Bird or Mickey Bird, is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, essayist, and screenplay writer. Tori has won multiple awards for his work, including two Seiun Awards (in 1994 for ''Dai-Hon'ya'', and in 1998 for ''SF T ...

) **'' Doyō Wide Satsujin Jiken: Kyōto Waraningyō Satsujin Jiken'' (1 tankōbon) *''

Jaja Uma Grooming Up! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from October 1994 to September 2000, and compiled into 26 ''tankōbon'' volumes. Plot ''Jaja Uma Grooming Up!'' dep ...

'' (26 tankōbon, 14 bunkoban) *'' Kyūkyoku Chōjin R'' (5 bunkobon) *'' Magical Lucy'' *''

Mariana Densetsu Mariana may refer to: Literature * ''Mariana'' (Dickens novel), a 1940 novel by Monica Dickens * ''Mariana'' (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson * ''Mariana'' (Vaz novel), a 1997 novel by Katherine Vaz Music *"Mariana", a so ...

'' (3 tankōbon) *''

Pangea no Musume Kunie Pangaea or Pangea () was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million y ...

'' (5 tankōbon) *''

Parody World A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subj ...

'' *'' Mobile Police Patlabor'' (22 tankōbon, 11 wideban, 11 bunkoban) *'' Shinkurō, Hashiru!'' (11 tankōbon as of September 2022) *''

Yamato Takeru no Bōken was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan. Japanese his ...

'' *''

Yūki Masami no Hateshinai Monogatari Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki ...

'' (2 tankōbon) Yuki is also the designer of the avatar mascot for the

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Gumi.

References

External links

Yūki Masami Official Site
(in Japanese) 1957 births Living people Manga artists from Hokkaido {{manga-artist-stub