Mitsuru Adachi made his manga debut in 1970 with Kieta Bakuon, based on a manga originally created by Satoru Ozawa.
13 Facts About Mitsuru Adachi
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Mitsuru Adachi is well known for romantic comedy and sports manga such as Touch, H2, Slow Step, Miyuki and Cross Game.
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Mitsuru Adachi is one of the few manga artists to write for shonen, shojo and seinen manga magazines, and be popular in all three.
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Mitsuru Adachi's works have been carried in manga magazines such as Weekly Shonen Sunday, Ciao, Shojo Comic, Big Comic and Petit Comic, and most of his works are published through Shogakukan and Gakken.
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Mitsuru Adachi was one of the flagship authors in the new Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine which began publication in June 2009.
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Mitsuru Adachi did the character designs for the OVA anime series Nozomi Witches, so he is sometimes incorrectly given credit for creating the original series.
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Mitsuru Adachi continued publishing various short stories and shorter series throughout the 1970s based on works created by others, the most well known being his adaptation of Rainbowman from 1972 to 1973.
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Mitsuru Adachi became a household name with the publication of his series Touch from 1981 to 1986 in Weekly Shonen Sunday.
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Mitsuru Adachi then released Niji Iro Togarashi, a fantasy medieval romantic comedy manga series, from 1990 to 1992 in Weekly Shonen Sunday.
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From 2000 to 2001, Mitsuru Adachi published a fantasy romantic comedy series in Weekly Shonen Sunday titled Itsumo Misora.
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Mitsuru Adachi began his manga series Cross Game, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday.
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In 2009, Mitsuru Adachi won the 54th Annual Shogakukan Manga Award for shonen manga for Cross Game, which was adapted into an anime television series which began airing on TV Tokyo in April 2009.
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Mitsuru Adachi began Q and A in the inaugural issue of Monthly Shonen Sunday in June 2009.