Yusuke Murata is a Japanese manga artist and animator, best known for illustrating the American football manga Eyeshield 21 in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki, serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in Weekly Shonen Jump; and One's One-Punch Man, serialized in the Weekly Young Jump online version.
14 Facts About Yusuke Murata
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Yusuke Murata published Samui Hanashi in Weekly Shonen Jump in June 1998, which won him the Akatsuka Award.
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In 2012, Yusuke Murata posted on Twitter a short story in the same universe in which Saitou pesters the Yusuke Murata for his manuscript and it was well received for its inventive use of folded paper, cutouts and white-out to create a three-dimensional appearance for his comic.
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Yusuke Murata wrote and drew a one-shot titled Madofuki Park for the April 2008 issue of Jump Square, about a futuristic window washer.
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Yusuke Murata created yet another one-shot featured in the Weekly Shonen Jump on June 21,2010; titled Minds, it was a story about a self-sacrificing soldier during a war, set in the future.
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Yusuke Murata illustrated the Weekly Shonen Jump 40th anniversary posters, which display the popular manga characters featured in the magazine.
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Yusuke Murata served as the artist for Donten Prism Solar Car, which was written by Yasuo Otagaki and was published in Jump Square between September 4,2010 and June 4,2011.
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In 2012, Yusuke Murata published two one-shots along with a Japanese web comic author dubbed "One"; the first one, Doto no Yushatachi, was released on April 1 in Weekly Young Jump, and the second, Dangan Tenshi Fan Club was released on April 17 in Miracle Jump.
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Yusuke Murata started to collaborate with One on the remake of the webcomic One-Punch Man, which started to be serialized in the online version of the Weekly Young Jump on June 14,2012.
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In November 2013, Yusuke Murata was hired to be the character designer for the Majin Bone anime adaptation that began in April 2014.
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For Square Enix's magazine Young Gangans 10th anniversary issue published on March 20,2015, Yusuke Murata did the illustration for One's Gokiburi Buster, a story about a soldier who is specialized on killing cockroaches.
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Each chapter features a fictionalized version of Yusuke Murata preparing dishes, and its 33 chapters have been released into a single volume on December 12,2016.
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Yusuke Murata announced on Twitter that he has a son, born in 2007, and a daughter, born in 2010, and he uses his daughter's character to illustrate Zenko and his son to illustrate Bateman on One-Punch Man.
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Yusuke Murata is a fan of Kinu Nishimura, the character designer of many Capcom video games and Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, with Goku's battles against Piccolo and Frieza being his favorite moments from the latter.