Sunday Social Media




It's a week without Sunday, but I'm not going to let that get me down. Rather, I'm going to work extra hard to get three times the stuff out this week starting with this post! I'd be remiss not to talk about the people who come together and make Sunday the unique place for manga that it is, and in the age of social media, it's easier than before to connect to people of all kinds, including Shounen Sunday authors. So gathered here for the first(?) time is a list of Sunday artists on twitter! (Some of who I follow!) I'll also add a little fact about the author if I can dig anything up, so let's get started!


Takashi Shiina
Zettai Karen Children.
Twitter here
Fun fact: Did you know his wife Aya Shimizu was once an assistant of Rumiko Takahashi (and assisted him for a time?) She's currently in charge of cleaning up his art for Zettai Karen Children.

Gosho Aoyama
Detective Conan/ Magic Kaito
Website here
Fun fact: Did you know that Aoyama actually considered quitting Conan slightly after it's anime started? He went to Vegas as a "Farewell Party" to the series since he thought he'd be done with it as he had run out of ideas, but when he returned to Japan he learned Detective Conan had been greenlit for a movie, and decided to hang in there.

Yuu Watase
Arata Kangatari
Twitter here
Fun Fact: Watase appeared in a video named "My wonderful life" around the 90's that interviewed people who believe in the in the Soka Gakkai religious movement? The vids mainly interviewed famous people who of the faith. (For more information on Soka Gakkai visit here.

Yellow Tanabe
Kekkaishi/Birdmen
Twitter here
Fun Fact: Yellow Tanabe won Shougakukan's 52nd Manga Award for Kekkaishi in 2006, and only joined twitter in 2015.

Jun Sakurai
Yuugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga inai.
Twitter here
I wasn't able to find anything interesting about Sakurai --not even their gender! (Also the twitter hasn't been updated in a year or so...)

KOTOYAMA
Dagashikashi
Twitter here
Fun Fact: Kotoyama was actually found on the internet by Shougakukan rather than in the traditional way of bringing his work to their office. Before that, he was mostly an internet artist who first started with "Igjis" on ComicLive! Drive a magazine run by BookLive!

Tsubasa Fukuchi
Saike Matashitemo
Twitter here
Fun fact: Fukuchi was only 21 years old when his first hit serialization "The Law of Ueki" ran in Shounen Sunday. Also, some think that his name is an alias or pen name, but "Tsubasa Fukuchi" is in fact his actual name.

Shun Matsuena
Tokiwa Kitareri!
Twitter here
Website here
Fun fact: Matsuena was both Kusaba (Daiku no Hatou) and Mitsuda (Major 2nd)'s assistant, as well as having Shun Fujiki as his assistant at one point.

Shun Fujiki
DameTerasu-sama
Twitter here
Fun fact: Fujiki is known for being particularly close with his fans, participating in art chats leaving comments on fan pages, and responding to most comments on his own blog. He's also noted as being a big fan of G-Gundam, and like Matsuena above, he was an assistant to Kusaba.

Kenjirou Hata
Hayate no Gotoku
Twitter here
Fun fact: His brother Shintarou Hata works(ed?)on the Sonic Team at Sega and was a planner for Phantasy Star Online, and his mother --Ritsuko Hata assisted with some of the logo design for the omake chapters of Hayate as well as well as writing subtitles on the anime. Ogaki (Shinobi no) was once his assistant, and he has never once won an award for manga --including his oneshots before Hayate.

Ryou Minenami
Hatsukoi Zombie
Twitter here
Website here
Fun fact: Minenami has serialized manga (or had oneshots) in several shougakukan magazines, from the online "MobaMan" magazine to the seinen "Weekly Young Sunday". Hatsukoi zombie is their first shounen manga, though they did have a oneshot in Sunday named "Himeyome warashi" back in 2012.

Nekoguchi
Amano Megumi suki darake!
Twitter here
Blog here
Tumblr here
Fun Fact: He once was the assistant to Fukuda (Mushibugyo) who asked him as a preparation for drawing manga seriously "What kind of theme do you want your characters to have?" Nekoguchi mistook that to mean "What kind of manga do you want to draw" and he answered readily "I want to draw girl's butts!" Which confused Fukuda. His name (obviously not his real one) may mean "Cat's mouth".

Hiroshi Fukuda
Jojuu Senjin Mushibugyo
Twitter here
Tumblr: here
Fun fact: He was once the assistant to Fujita (Souboutei) And Mushibugyo actually ran in Sunday super for a year (3 volumes) from 2009-2010 before being reset and running in Weekly Shounen Sunday from 2011-2017, a rarity that only happened because the reception for the manga in Super was extremely good. He was a shounen sunday fan from a young age and commented that it was a dream to have his manga run in the same magazine as his heroes Aoyama (Conan) and Fujita. He did want to be Aoyama's assistant since Yaiba (his favorite manga) and said this to Fujita at one point.

Kazuhiro Fujita
Souboutei kowasubeshi
Twitter here
Fun fact: He's had several famous Sunday mangaka as assistants --Makoto (Gash bell) Raiku, Nobuyuki (Flame of Recca/Mar) Anzai, Kazurou (Midori days) Inoue and as mentioned above, Hiroshi (Mushibugyo) Fukuda. He deeply respects Rumiko Takahashi, and when he first met her went overboard in praise for her works. His influences are also extremely varied --From Steven King to heavy metal to Deep Purple (band) and Dario Argento an Italian horror movie director.

Hikaru Nikaido
Aozakura Bouei daigakkou monogatari
Twitter here
Website here
Fun fact: Nikaido was once an assistant to Rando Ayamine who illustrated Getbackers over at Weekly Shounen Magazine. Nikaido's ultimate goal was to get into a major manga magazine and draw sports manga, so they began by tracing manga versions of popular anime.

Kagiji Kumanomata
Maoujo de oyasumi
Twitter here
Fun fact: When Maoujo de oyasumi started serialization, Tetsuya chiba of "Ashita no Joe" fame commented on his blog that he always knew Kumanomata had talent, but was happy to see how far they've come.

Tomohito Oda
Komi-san wa komushou desu.
Twitter here
Fun fact: While he did run most of his oneshots and first series in Sunday, Oda actually shopped Komi around to Square Enix's Shounen Gangan and Shounen Jump before settling on Shounen Sunday for the series. (As seen here from a Unscientific lab interview --though I don't know what issue this was.)


Takahiro Arai
Tenshou no Quadrable
Twitter here
Fun fact: Arai has drawn many manga related to European culture --his first manga was an adaption of Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak, his second series, Arago takes place in London --specifically following the protagonist as he works with Scotland Yard, and he drew an adaption of Les Miserables in Gessan, Shounen Sunday's sister magazine.

Tamaki Wakaki
K.O.I King of Idol
Twitter here
Twitter(sub account) here
Fun fact: He doesn't appear much in person but is very active on anime and radio talk shows. He has a major sweet tooth, especially for swiss rolls and is a huge Beatles fan. He also also played guitar and wrote the lyrics for several of the character songs for his previous series "Kami Nozmi shiru sekai" as well as designed an outfit for Dead or Alive 5 Last round --of which he is a big fan.

Reach Ishiyama
Meteor Girl
Twitter here
I wasn't able to find much on Ishiyama, and they only started tweeting in 2016.

Rokurou Ogaki
Shinobi no
Twitter here
Instagram here
Fun fact: Ogaki is married and has a five year old daughter. He also once drew a Zettai Karen children spin off about Hyoubu Kyousuke called "Zettai Karen Children: The unlimited".

Kyouichi Nanatsuki
Tantei Xeno to Nanatsu Satsujin hisshitsu (Writer)
Twitter here
Fun fact: His name is actually styled after a character in Tadashi Ohta's story "Shinjyuku Shounen Tanteidan" named Kyouko Nanatsuki. In high school he won first place in a national literature contest, and debuted in College by winning Sunday's rookie contest with an artist drawing as he wrote.

Hidnori Yamaji
Marry Grave
Twitter here
Website here
Fun fact: Yamaji was born in 1988 making him 29 of this writing. His first series --Atlantid ran in Sunday Super back in 2015, and like Arai before him he seems to favor London/European settings for his stories.

Of course I don't mean to cheat anyone, but some people are unsurprisingly (or surprisingly?) not on twitter. I don't want to rely on second hand info so I didn't include those who have sites run by other people even if they are well maintained. Ah, and of course, I'd be remiss not to include this twitter account..

Viz Media

I'm super glad you guys read my blog, but it'd make me happier if we could raise our voices and get some of the manga here noticed! So by all means politely tell viz you want more Shounen Sunday manga! Well, I've got more stuff to do so that's it for now! See you in just a little bit!

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  1. fun fact: hiroshi fukuda has a tumblr
    https://hiroshi-fukuda.tumblr.com/

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  2. Thanks for the links! Didn't know who was on twitter - sad that Rumiko Takahashi isn't, but I'll definitely be following many of these artists!

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    1. You're welcome! I'm not surprised she isn't --I saw a fansite of hers but I'm pretty sure it's run by someone else and this entry is specifically for things that are run by the person in question. I'm not surprised she's not on twitter as her answers in the TOC are very terse, lol. She doesn't seem to be the overly talkative type, on first impression.

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  4. I wish I can read japanese fluently and follow Fukuchi's twitter better, he sounds like he'd make a great friend. I think there was one tweet where he replies with a lot of Jojo references, sounds quite fun. I can only roughly translate his tweets but I still try.

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    1. Fukuchi is a pretty gregarious guy. I've talked to him a few times and he's pretty open about his experience drawing manga with shougakukan. He's always drawing and talking about things he's enjoying too --as well as posting sneak peaks of Saike art so it's fun to follow his twitter even if your Japanese isn't really strong, I think.

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    2. Cool, the art is something I at least get from his Twitter and really enjoy.

      By the way, I'm really interested in the line from this tweet of his here:https://twitter.com/fukuchi_tsubasa/status/943470560855691264

      I have an idea of what it might say, but not sure. Any help?

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    3. He's replying to a tweet he RT'd that says that battle manga are getting a bit cliched. The person before says that all battle manga follow the same system, and Fukuchi says that all Jojos do this as well, so would it mean that there shouldn't be anymore manga like Jojo?

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