Behind the anime

Takuya Mitsuda

Original Creator

Takuya Mitsuda is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture.

The person behind the work

Biography

Takuya Mitsuda (満田拓也, Mitsuda Takuya; born June 17, 1965) is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He has published his works primarily in Shogakukan's manga magazine, Weekly Shōnen Sunday. He is best known for his long-running baseball manga Major for which he won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1996 in the shōnen category.

Mitsuda debuted in 1982, winning the Shogakukan Newcomers Award for "Banyū".