• Manga artist
Masakazu Ishiguro was his university classmate. They have influenced each other's work and remain close friends. • His hobbies include manga, video games, collecting Transformers figures, and watching adult films. • He actively participates in lectures and talk shows. During exhibitions, he holds autograph sessions, carefully inscribing illustrations alongside his signature. • People Influenced by him include
Takahiro Matsumoto,
Kenji Ozawa,
Fujiko F. Fujio,
Mitsuru Adachi,
Yoko Kondo,
Momoko Sakura, and
Woody Allen. • His favorite illustrators are
Seiichi Hayashi,
Seizo Watase, Minoru Yonezawa, Satoshi Hyodo, and
Norman Rockwell. • His drawing procedure is a rough sketch with a pencil, a draft→ inking (Copic Multiliner), → scanning the sketch to a computer → coloring it with Photoshop. Therefore, most of the original drawings are only line drawings. The reason why there are many profiles in the figures is because "I want to draw them with curves". Because side views allow for more graceful lines than front-facing poses. • Masafumi Goto of the rock band
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION commissioned him to design album covers starting with their debut,
The Time Is Nigh. He also manages and produces the internet radio show Yonashi Hosshitsu (Pear Broadcasting Room). == List of major works ==