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SHIMABUKURO Mitsutoshi    [Edit]
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Associated Names
Shimabuu
しまぶー

Name (in native language)
島袋光年

Birth Place
Naha, Okinawa, Japan

Birth Date
May 19, 1975

Zodiac
Taurus

Last Updated
March 12th 2022, 8:36pm

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He made his debut with “Hakken!! Tomodachi Inai-inai Bu” in 1995 in Weekly Shounen Jump and received the Akatsuka Award Honorable Mention for best new gag manga writer.

Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! (1997–2002, 24 volumes), was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for children category in 2001.
In 2002, he was arrested and convicted of violating child prostitution laws, including paying a 16-year-old girl ¥80,000 to have sex. As a result of the arrest, Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! was cancelled by Weekly Shounen Jump.

Toriko began serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump in 2008 and made into anime in 2009.

Build King serialization was started in 2020.

Shimabukuro is friends with ODA Eiichiro, author of One Piece.
He also close with KITA Yasuaki, MIZUMOTO Akitsugu, SAWAI Yoshio & ITAGAKI Keisuke.
He appeared on Hetappi Manga Kenkyuujo R by MURATA Yuusuke as guest mangaka.

NISHI Kouhei & SASAKI Ken were once assistants of his.

Kinnikuman, Fist of the North Star, and Captain Tsubasa are some of his favorite mangas.

Blood Type
O

Gender
Male

Genres
Comedy(15)  Shounen(12)  Action(6)  Fantasy(6)  Adventure(3)  Seinen(3)  Sports(2)  Supernatural(2)  Sci-fi(1)  Slice of Life(1) 

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Series Title (Click for series info)
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
2015
Comedy, Shounen
2017
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
2018
Action, Comedy, Shounen
2017
Comedy, Shounen, Slice of Life
2006
Comedy, Shounen
2011
Comedy, Seinen, Sports
2017
Comedy, Seinen
2017
Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
2011
Comedy, Shounen
2017
Comedy, Seinen, Sports
2004
Action, Comedy, Shounen
1997
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
2008
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
2009
Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
2015
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