Birth place: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Blood type: B
He got his start as an assistant to Shin Morimura before launching his own manga career. His debut came in 2000 with Planetes, a sci-fi series that was popular enough to get a full 26-episode anime adaptation.
These days he's best known for Vinland Saga, his long-running historical epic that started serializing in Weekly Shounen Magazine before moving to the more prestigious Afternoon. The series made a real splash—he snagged the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for it in 2009, cementing it as one of his major achievements.
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