, known under the

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, is a Japanese

manga artist A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a Cartoonist, comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the indus ...

.まんがseek・日外アソシエーツ共著『漫画家人名事典』日外アソシエーツ、2003年2月25日初版発行、、308 - 309/頁 His most notable work was the sports manga ''

Dan Doh!! ''Dan Doh!!'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese sports manga series written by and illustrated by Daichi Banjō. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from March 1995 to June 2000. It was followed ...

'', written by Nobuhiro Sakata, in which he was the illustrator.

Biography

In 1991, Banjo won the 21st Shogakukan New Artist Award for "Feron 11" as well as an honorable mention for the "

Fujiko Fujio was a manga writing duo formed by Japanese manga artists and . They debuted in 1951 as a duo under their real names. The Fujiko Fujio name was used for their respective works from 1953 until 1987, when Fujimoto was too ill to work consist ...

Award". That same year, one of his works appeared in the

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Summer Special. After graduating from

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, he worked as an assistant to

Takashi Shiina is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily for the weekly Shogakukan manga publication ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as ''S ...

. In 1992 he made his formal debut under the

"Daichi Banjō" with the short story "Puma" in a special issue of '' Shōnen Sunday''. In 1995, he became the illustrator for the ''Dan Doh!!'' sports manga series written by Nobuhiro Sakata. The series ran from 1995 to 2000 on ''

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'' for 29 tankōbon volumes and its sequels ''Dan Doh! Xi'' and ''Dan Doh! Next Generation'' ran in '' Shonen Sunday'' from 2000 to 2005 for 15 and 4 volumes, respectively. It was also adapted into an anime series. In 2006, he worked on the series ''Bushin'' which was serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Sunday''. Other manga series include ''Mobile Suit Gundam: The Hunters in Black'' and ''Mobile Suit Gundam Aggressor''.

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* 1969 births Living people Manga artists from Tokyo {{manga-artist-stub