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Mangaka
Male
July 4 1978
Age47
Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Yuusuke Murata
村田雄介
About
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He was once the assistant and apprentice of Takeshi Obata of Hikaru no Go and Death Note fame. He had a number of one-shots published in Weekly Shonen Jump, namely Partner (won the 122nd Hop*Step award), Samui Hanashi (won the 2nd Prize in the 51st Akatsuka Award), Kaitou COLT, and of course, Eyeshield 21 (began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump No. 34 2002).
He is also responsible for designing Dust Man from Rockman 4 and Crystal Man from Rockman 5.