Tomozo
Description
Tomozo is a manga illustrator whose credited works span the mid-2000s to the present day. Information about their personal background indicates a birth date of March 4 and a current residence in Tokyo, Japan.
Tomozo is best known for illustrating the manga adaptation of the light novel series A Gatherer’s Adventure in Isekai, which began serialization on the AlphaPolis manga website in December 2017. The original story, written by Masuo Kinoko, follows a character transported to a fantasy world who uses gathering skills to navigate the new environment. Tomozo’s artistic work on this series has been collected into eight tankōbon volumes as of August 2024, and the manga is available in English through the Alpha Manga digital service. The series has achieved significant commercial success, with the original light novel winning The AlphaPolis 9th Fantasy Novel Grand Prize reader award and the franchise as a whole selling over 1.73 million copies. An anime television adaptation of the series, to which Tomozo contributed the manga version, is scheduled to premiere in October 2025.
In addition to this recent work, Tomozo has a history of adapting existing properties into manga. They are the illustrator behind the manga adaptation of Speed Grapher, the 2005 anime television series produced by Gonzo. This manga was originally published in English by Tokyopop in 2008. A new edition of the Speed Grapher manga is being released by Titan Manga, with volumes published in 2024 and 2025. Descriptions of this work note that Tomozo created a complete adaptation of the anime’s storyline across a trilogy of volumes.
Beyond adaptation work, Tomozo is credited as the creator of an original manga series titled Seventh. References to this work appear in promotional material for their other publications, establishing it as part of their broader artistic portfolio.
An overview of their professional history lists involvement in numerous manga and light novel projects, including a manga from 2005 and ongoing work in the 2020s, indicating a sustained career in the industry.
Tomozo is best known for illustrating the manga adaptation of the light novel series A Gatherer’s Adventure in Isekai, which began serialization on the AlphaPolis manga website in December 2017. The original story, written by Masuo Kinoko, follows a character transported to a fantasy world who uses gathering skills to navigate the new environment. Tomozo’s artistic work on this series has been collected into eight tankōbon volumes as of August 2024, and the manga is available in English through the Alpha Manga digital service. The series has achieved significant commercial success, with the original light novel winning The AlphaPolis 9th Fantasy Novel Grand Prize reader award and the franchise as a whole selling over 1.73 million copies. An anime television adaptation of the series, to which Tomozo contributed the manga version, is scheduled to premiere in October 2025.
In addition to this recent work, Tomozo has a history of adapting existing properties into manga. They are the illustrator behind the manga adaptation of Speed Grapher, the 2005 anime television series produced by Gonzo. This manga was originally published in English by Tokyopop in 2008. A new edition of the Speed Grapher manga is being released by Titan Manga, with volumes published in 2024 and 2025. Descriptions of this work note that Tomozo created a complete adaptation of the anime’s storyline across a trilogy of volumes.
Beyond adaptation work, Tomozo is credited as the creator of an original manga series titled Seventh. References to this work appear in promotional material for their other publications, establishing it as part of their broader artistic portfolio.
An overview of their professional history lists involvement in numerous manga and light novel projects, including a manga from 2005 and ongoing work in the 2020s, indicating a sustained career in the industry.
Works
- Topics: Anime overview