About the Mangaka
Name: Shiozaki Yuji (雄二 塩崎)
DOB: September 7th, 1967
Bloodtype: A
Shiozaki-sensei is a mangaka best-known for the manga series Ikkitousen, his first best seller.
He's done short mangas for the Young Jump Magazine of Shueisha. After creating "Karen" (1997-1998), "Happy Man" (1999), and "Nikkan Tachibana" (2000), he changes of publishing house to dedicate to this last title.
In April 2000 the chapter "zero" of Ikkitousen was born of the pages of Wani Book "Comic GUM" as a monthly publication. After reaching fame thanks to it, Shiozaki-sensei got many proposals of different publishing houses, including "Comedy Stadium Seven" (2002), a version of ZOIDS called "ZOIDS ZI" (2002-2003), Battle Club (2004), and Frontier Roots (2004); however, Ikkitousen always mantains as his main title.
Nowadays he's publishing Battle Club in the Young King OURs Magazine of the Shonen Gahosha editorial, a story similar to Ikkitousen but with a higher level of violence and sex.
His hobbies includes Baseball, or travel to different places outside Japan to plant vegetables in the garden of the place he's staying.
Works
- Ikkitousen (一騎当千), published in the Comic GUM of the Wani Books editorial.
- Battle Club (バトルクラブ), published in the Monthly Young Kind of the Shonen Gahosha editorial.
- ZOIDS Wakusei Zi (ZOIDS惑星Zi), published in the Corocoro Comic of the Shogakukan editorial.
- Karen (Karen), published in the Business Jump of the Shueisha editorial.
- Happy Man (ハッピーマン,).
- Nikkan Tachibana (日刊タチバナ), pulished in the Young King OURs.
- Comedi Stadium Seven (コメスタセブン).
- Frontier Roots (フロンティアルーツ), original work of Tooru Tamegai, published in the Comic Gotta of the Shogakukan editorial.