Masasumi Kakizaki
Japanese manga artist (born 1978)
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Masasumi Kakizaki (Japanese: 柿崎正澄, Hepburn: Kakizaki Masasumi; born May 18, 1978) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2001 with the one-shot Two Tops prior to launching his first series, X-Gene, in 2002. Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, which he illustrated, won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category in 2005.
| Masasumi Kakizaki 柿崎正澄 | |
|---|---|
Kakizaki at Lucca Comics & Games in 2014 | |
| Born | May 18, 1978[1] Monbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan[1] |
| Area | Manga artist |
Notable works | |
| Collaborators | |
| Awards | 51st Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category |
Works
| Title | Year | Magazine | Publisher(s) | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Tops (ツートップ, Tsūtoppu) | 2001 | Separate Volume Weekly Young Sunday | Shogakukan | One-shot | [1] |
| X-Gene | 2002 | Weekly Young Sunday | Shogakukan | With Kentaro Fumizuki | [1] |
| Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (RAINBOW-二舎六房の七人-) | 2002–2010 |
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Shogakukan | With George Abe | [2] |
| Hideout | 2010 | Big Comic Spirits | Shogakukan | [3] | |
| Bestiarius (闘獣士 ベスティアリウス, Tōjūshi Besutiariusu) | 2011–2018 | Shogakukan | [4] | ||
| Green Blood | 2011–2013 | Weekly Young Magazine | Kodansha | [5] | |
| Wife of a Spy (スパイの妻, Supai no Tsuma) | 2020–2021 | Monthly Sunday Gene-X | Shogakukan | Based on Wife of a Spy | [6] |
| The Tree of Death: Yomotsuhegui (ヨモツヘグイ 死者の国の果実, Yomotsuhegui: Shisha no Kuni no Kajitsu) | 2021–2023 | Monthly Young Magazine | Kodansha | [7] |
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Work/Recipient | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 51st Shogakukan Manga Award | Best General Manga | Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin | Won | [8] |