Intending to be a manga artist from his childhood days, Boichi majored in physics in college as preparation to draw science fiction works, and also to learn the technology of performance and imaging. He went on to graduate school to major in image technology. In 1993, while still enrolled, Boichi debuted in a Korean girls manhwa magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of readers.
Manga career In 2004 he transitioned into the world of Japanese
manga. His "Ultimate Space Emperor Caesar", serialized in Monthly
Comic Gum, was his first
tankōbon in Japan. In 2005, 9 out of 11 of Boichi's hentai one-shot serialized in the Comic Aun were reunited under the volume titled
Lovers in Winter. In 2006, he released two science fiction one-shot, "Hotel" and "Present" which, in 2008, were compiled in a volume titled
Hotel along the other one-shots "It was all for the tuna", "Stephanos" and "Diadem". In 2006, Boichi's first serialized manga,
Sun-Ken Rock, was published in the bi-weekly magazine
Young King. The manga spawned a side-story based on the character Yumin in 2011 and another based on Pickaxe in 2012. Another spin-off based on Yumin was released in 2012, entitled
I want to feed Yumin and serialized in
Monthly Young King.
I want to feed Yumin is about the main character of Sun-Ken Rock, treating Yumin to traditional
Korean food. Boichi also worked as the artist of a five-volume manga titled
Raqiya, written by Masao Yajima and published in 2009. He also served as the artist of the
Brutality one-shot by Takeda Yuusuke in 2007. In later 2011, he started the serialization of another manga titled "H.E the hunt for energy" in a new monthly magazine:
Jump X. In this year, he won the
Gran Guinigi prize for "It was all for the Tuna", about a scientist doing anything to revive the extinct tuna, experimenting on everything tuna-related and sacrificing his own happiness. To express his sentiment towards the
Vietnam War and apologize for Korea’s actions during the war,
Sun-Ken Rock volume 2′s royalties were donated to the Humanitarian Services for Children of Vietnam (HSCV). He asked Korean manga artists to contribute towards drawing a support page for the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, giving the royalties from the proceeding to the
Red Cross. He also donated the money he planned to use to buy a new car towards helping tsunami victims. In 2019, Boichi received two awards for
Dr. Stone for the Shōnen category, respectively,
Origin for the Best Manga category. Since 2020, Boichi has been doing the artwork for manga adaptation of
One Piece novel A titled
One Piece episode A. == Japanese works ==