Kaiji Kawaguchi is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for works such as The Silent Service, Zipang, A Spirit of the Sun and Kūbo Ibuki. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations.
Gallery Fake is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujihiko Hosono. It was firstly serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from 1992 to 2005, with its chapters collected in 32 tankōbon volumes. A two-chapter story and a four-chapter story were published in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2012 and 2016, respectively. A new serialization of Gallery Fake began in Big Comic Zōkan in 2017.
Motoko Kumai is a Japanese voice actress employed by 81 Produce. She played Takao Kinomiya/Tyson Granger in Beyblade and Syaoran Li in Cardcaptor Sakura. From December 21, 2006 to October 2007, she had a hiatus from her career due to an illness requiring medical treatment.
Flame of Recca is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 1995 to January 2002, with its chapters collected in 33 tankōbon volumes.
Makoto Kawada, known by the pen name Makoto Raiku, is a manga artist known for creating the Zatch Bell! franchise. Starting off an assistant for Kazuhiro Fujita on his manga Ushio & Tora, he began creating several one-shots for the Weekly Shōnen Sunday shōnen manga anthology such as Bird Man, Hero Ba-Ban and Genmai Blade. By 1999, he had created the series Newtown Heroes, which was published in Shōnen Sunday Super, a seasonal publication featuring upcoming manga artists and one-shots from the main Sunday book.
Märchen Awakens Romance, officially abbreviated as MÄR, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 2003 to July 2006, with its chapters collected in 15 tankōbon volumes. The story follows 14-year-old junior high student Ginta Toramizu who is transported into a fantasy-based world known as MÄR-Heaven. As Ginta ventures in the world of MÄR-Heaven, he encounters allies and antagonists.
Kazurou Inoue is a Japanese manga artist from Sano, Tochigi Prefecture. He received recognition for his manga Dream Security Mao at the 40th Rookie Comic Awards. After training under Kazuhiro Fujita, he published Heat Wave in Shōnen Sunday Super in 2001. He is most known for Midori Days, which was adapted into a 13-episode anime series by Pierrot.
Yellow Tanabe is a Japanese manga artist. She was an assistant for Mitsuru Adachi and Makoto Raiku and made her debut in 2002 with the short story Lost Princess. She is best known for the manga series Kekkaishi, which has been adapted as an anime television series and translated into many languages. She published a one-shot story in the inaugural issue of the revival of Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009.
Kazuhiro Fujita is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Nihon University. He made his professional manga debut in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1989. He is known for his manga series Ushio & Tora and Karakuri Circus. For Ushio & Tora, Fujita won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 1992 and the Seiun Award in 1997.
Tetsuko no Tabi is a Japanese non-fiction manga series authored by Hirohiko Yokomi and illustrated by Naoe Kikuchi. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki between 2001 and 2006. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Group TAC was broadcast in 2007.
Kazuko Fujita is a Japanese shōjo manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1977 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and she has written manga mainly for Flower Comics. She is best known for Makoto Call! about a girl who plays volleyball, for which she received the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. In 2007, her Four Steps to Romance was dramatized on CTV in Taiwan as Romantic Princess.
Mixim 11 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2008 to February 2011, with its chapters collected in twelve tankōbon volumes.
The third and final season, titled level 3, of the Zatch Bell! anime series was directed by Tetsuji Nakamura and Yukio Kaizawa and produced by Toei Animation. Based on the manga series by Makoto Raiku, the Mamodo Rioh brings Faudo into the tournament, posing an existential threat to Zatch Bell, his human partner Kiyo Takamine, and all their friends; and Zatch confronts his begrudging twin brother Zeno Bell. The third season of the TV series, known formally as Konjiki no Gash Bell!!, aired in Japan from April 3, 2005, to March 26, 2006, on Fuji TV. The season adapts volumes 18 through 22 of the manga. Toei proactively scripted a portion of the season's material as a delay resulted in the manga lagging behind the anime, producing a truncated plotline that is roughly parallel to volumes 23 through 29.
Shūhō Satō is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.
Kazuhiro Fujita Short Stories is a Japanese anthology manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita and published by Shogakukan. The first collection, Yoru no Uta, contains five stories and was released in July 1995. The second collection, Akatsuki no Uta, contains four stories and was released in February 2004.
Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2006 to 2007, with the chapters collected in a single tankōbon volume.
Uruha no Sekai de Arisugawa is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Sunday S since February 2018.
