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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 ...

and character designer.

Works

Manga artist

* (1997, ''Monthly Young Magazine'',

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

, one-shot) * (1998, ''Bessatsu Monthly Young Magazine'', Kodansha, one-shot) * (2001, ''Monthly Young Magazine'', Kodansha, web manga) * (2001, ''Bessatsu Pachislot Panic 7'', Byakuya-Shobo) * '' Karasuma Kyoko no Jikenbo'' (2002–12, written by Ōji Kiroi, ''BStreet''→''

Monthly Comic Birz was a Japanese seinen manga magazine published on a monthly basis by Gentosha's imprint Birz Comics from 1986 until 2018. The magazine was called ''Comic Burger'' (コミックバーガー), until it was renamed in 1996. Several manga that were ...

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Gentosha is a Japanese publisher, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Gentosha publishes manga magazine '' Comic Birz'', Web comic magazines '' GENZO'', ''SPICA'', '' Comic MAGNA'', literary magazines ''Lynx'', ''papyrus'', as well as business magazine ''GOE ...

, 10 volumes) * ''Chick Dismantler'' (2003, ''Blade Gunz'',

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, one-shot) * (2005–08, ''

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'', Wanimagazine) * '' No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Erotic Comic'' (2010,

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) * (2011–present, ''

Young Gangan is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company merged with Square to form Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in t ...

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, 5 volumes) * ''Tokyo Karasu'' (written by Hiroki Miyashita, ''

Monthly Sunday Gene-X , often abbreviated as , is a manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Like many other manga magazines, it is an "anthology magazine", with each issue featuring new chapters of several manga series. The series are also published in form under t ...

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) – character design from 2012 to 2013

Character designer

; Anime * ''

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'' (2005,

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) * '' Intrigue in the Bakumatsu – Irohanihoheto'' (2006–07,

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) * '' Bubuki Buranki'' (2016,

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) * '' Under the Dog'' (2016,

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) ; Video games * ''

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'' (2005,

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) * '' No More Heroes'' (2007,

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) * ''Chūmon Shiyou ze! Ore-tachi no Sekai'' (2008, GAE) * '' Half-Minute Hero'' (2009, Marvelous Entertainment) * '' No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle'' (2010, Grasshopper Manufacture/Marvelous Entertainment) * '' No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise'' (2010,

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/Marvelous Entertainment) * '' Ace Combat: Assault Horizon'' (2011,

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) – Tie-in novel ''Ace Combat: Ikaros in the Sky'' * ''

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'' (2012,

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/Nintendo) * '' Liberation Maiden'' (2012, Level-5/Grasshopper Manufacture) * '' Puzzle & Dragons'' (2012,

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) * ''Unchain Blaze EXXIV'' (2012, Furyu) – Hilda only * '' Liberation Maiden SIN'' (2013, 5pb./Mages) * '' Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day'' (2014, Grasshopper Manufacture/Bandai Namco Games) * ''

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'' (2015, Bandai Namco Entertainment) – Lucky Chloe and

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only * ''

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'' (2015, Intelligent Systems/Nintendo) * ''

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'' (2016,

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) - Team Leaders, Professor Willow and Rhi design, official player character artwork * ''

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'' (2017, Intelligent Systems/Nintendo) * ''

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'' (2017,

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/Nintendo) – Aegaeon and Agate design * '' Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes'' (2019, Grasshopper Manufacture) * ''

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'' (2019, Marvelous) * '' AI: The Somnium Files'' (2019,

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) * '' Pokémon Sword and Shield'' (2019,

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/Nintendo/

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) – The Pokémon Toxel, Toxtricity, Gigantamax Toxtricity and Falinks designs * '' No More Heroes III'' (2021, Grasshopper Manufacture) * '' AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative'' (2022,

) * ''

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'' (2022, Game Freak/Nintendo/The Pokémon Company) - The Pokémon Varoom, Revavroom, Cetoddle and Cetitan designs * ''

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Variants Daphne'' (2024, Drecom) ; Other * ''

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'' (2009, AH-Software) — SF-A2 Miki V2, V4 * '' Synthesizer V Studio 2'' (2025, AH-Software) — SF-A2 Miki SV

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kozaki, Yusuke 1978 births Living people Manga artists from Tokyo Japanese video game artists