Tsuyoshi Yasuda
Description
Tsuyoshi Yasuda is a Japanese manga artist and original creator, born on June 9, 1980, in Tokyo. His career began in won the 67th Weekly Shōnen Magazine Newcomer Manga Award, leading to his debut in Magazine Fresh. He gained early industry experience working as an assistant to manga artist Tarō Sekiguchi from 2003 to 2004.
Yasuda is known for creating several long-running series primarily in the sports and historical drama genres. His first major serialization, Over Drive, a cycling manga, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2005 to 2008. This work was later adapted into a 26-episode television anime in 2007. Following this, he worked on a manga adaptation of the novel Isshun no Kaze ni Nare from 2007 to 2010, followed by the original series Furimuku na Kimi wa (2010-2011) and Kuroneko Dance (2011-2012).
His most commercially and critically successful work is the soccer manga Days, which serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2013 to 2021 and was collected in 42 volumes. In 2016, Days won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. The series also inspired a television anime adaptation in 2016 and several original video anime episodes.
After concluding Days, Yasuda launched his next major series, The Blue Wolves of Mibu (Ao no Miburo), in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in October 2021. This series marks a stylistic shift from contemporary sports to historical action, depicting the founding of the Shinsengumi during the late samurai era of the 1860s. The series entered its second part, subtitled Shinsengumi Arc, in 2024. It was announced that The Blue Wolves of Mibu would also receive a television anime adaptation.
Across his body of work, Yasuda's artistic identity is characterized by a focus on youth, camaraderie, and intense dedication to a craft or cause. His stories often center on protagonists who grow through perseverance in competitive environments, whether in cycling, soccer, or the martial world of the samurai. His recurring exploration of the Shinsengumi is evident in earlier works like Kuroneko Dance, which also focused on the historical figure Sōji Okita, a captain of the Shinsengumi. Yasuda remains an active contributor to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, where he has published all of his major works.
Yasuda is known for creating several long-running series primarily in the sports and historical drama genres. His first major serialization, Over Drive, a cycling manga, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2005 to 2008. This work was later adapted into a 26-episode television anime in 2007. Following this, he worked on a manga adaptation of the novel Isshun no Kaze ni Nare from 2007 to 2010, followed by the original series Furimuku na Kimi wa (2010-2011) and Kuroneko Dance (2011-2012).
His most commercially and critically successful work is the soccer manga Days, which serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2013 to 2021 and was collected in 42 volumes. In 2016, Days won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. The series also inspired a television anime adaptation in 2016 and several original video anime episodes.
After concluding Days, Yasuda launched his next major series, The Blue Wolves of Mibu (Ao no Miburo), in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in October 2021. This series marks a stylistic shift from contemporary sports to historical action, depicting the founding of the Shinsengumi during the late samurai era of the 1860s. The series entered its second part, subtitled Shinsengumi Arc, in 2024. It was announced that The Blue Wolves of Mibu would also receive a television anime adaptation.
Across his body of work, Yasuda's artistic identity is characterized by a focus on youth, camaraderie, and intense dedication to a craft or cause. His stories often center on protagonists who grow through perseverance in competitive environments, whether in cycling, soccer, or the martial world of the samurai. His recurring exploration of the Shinsengumi is evident in earlier works like Kuroneko Dance, which also focused on the historical figure Sōji Okita, a captain of the Shinsengumi. Yasuda remains an active contributor to Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, where he has published all of his major works.
Works
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- Topics: Anime overview
- Topics: Anime overview