13 Facts About Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Mitsuteru Yokoyama was born in Suma Ward of Kobe City in Hyogo Prefecture.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama graduated from Kobe municipal Ota junior high school and went on to the Kobe municipal Suma high school.

Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis" made a deep impression on Mitsuteru Yokoyama who wished to become a manga artist in earnest and so he contributed his works to a comic book in his high school days.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama entered the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation after graduation from high school, but quit his job before five months passed because there was no time to draw a manga.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama found a new job as a publicity department member for a movie company based in Kobe and pursued his manga artist career on his free time.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama came out with the first book White Lily Story for his manga artist debut, which caught Osamu Tezuka's attention.

In 1955, Mitsuteru Yokoyama had a title serialized in the magazine Shojo for the first time, "Shirayuri Koushinkyoku".

In July 1997, Mitsuteru Yokoyama was hospitalized with myocardial infarction and had an operation.

In 2004, while under medical treatment, Mitsuteru Yokoyama won the MEXT Prize of the Japan Cartoonist Association.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama's condition deteriorated and he fell in a coma.

The attractions of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's works are calculated story deployment and an elaborate setting.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama was better at a serious story manga rather than with comedy, though he nonetheless drew comics in the latter genre.

Whereas many comic artists prefer their original stories not to be changed when adapted, Mitsuteru Yokoyama was realistic and tolerant, so many of his works were made into animation or Tokusatsu.