Seiichi Hayashi

[Website](http://www.hayashi-seiichi.jp/)

Started his career in 1962 at [Toei Animation](https://anilist.co/studio/18/) as an animator. He is cited with bringing pop art into manga.

Hayashi started to draw for the magazine Garo in 1967, and soon made his breakthrough with the manga [Red Colored Elegy](https://anilist.co/manga/39138/) about the break-up of an unmarried couple. The singer Morio Agata named a popular song of his after the manga. It also received [an animated adaptation](https://anilist.co/anime/6268/) 37 years after its release.

[Hayao Miyazaki](https://anilist.co/staff/96870/) names Hayashi as an influence on his work.