Yuto Suzuki is a Japanese manga artist born on July 6, 1993, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. He pursued formal artistic training at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting. This background in classical art has informed his approach to composition and readability in his manga work.

Suzuki made his professional debut in April 2019 with the one-shot Garaku, published in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ digital magazine. The work garnered significant attention, accumulating hundreds of thousands of views within its first week. Later that same year, in September 2019, he published a second one-shot titled Locker Room, also on Shonen Jump+. This story proved highly successful and was subsequently adapted into a segment of the long-running television drama series World’s Weirdest Tales in 2020.

Following these successes, Suzuki published a prototype for his future series. The one-shot Sakamoto appeared in Shueisha’s Jump Giga magazine in December 2019. This prototype directly led to his first serialized work, Sakamoto Days, which began publication in the flagship Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on November 21, 2020. The series follows Taro Sakamoto, a legendary retired hitman who has become an overweight, peaceful convenience store owner but must use his lethal skills to protect his family. As of early 2025, the manga remains in serialization and has been collected into over twenty tankobon volumes.

The Sakamoto Days franchise has expanded beyond the original manga. A television anime adaptation is scheduled to premiere in January 2025. Two spinoff novelizations have been released, written by Renka Misaki. The first, titled Sakamoto Days: Assassin's Method, was published in Japan in April 2023. The second, Sakamoto Days: Assassin's Blues, followed in December 2024, both credited to Suzuki as the original creator. Additionally, a spinoff manga titled Sakamoto Holidays, drawn by Tetsu Okawa (an assistant on the main series), began serialization in Shueisha’s Saikyo Jump in July 2024.

Suzuki has stated his affinity for characters with strong contrasts, which is a defining feature of his artistic identity. This is most evident in his creation of Sakamoto, a character who is both a doting family man and a former underworld legend, as well as his preference for a chubby but overwhelmingly powerful protagonist. His creative influences include action films such as John Wick and The Equalizer, and he has cited manga artists Katsuhiro Otomo, Takehiko Inoue, and Hiroya Oku as inspirations. His editor has noted that Suzuki works as a meticulous craftsman, focusing on clear and dynamic action sequences, and readily incorporates modern entertainment and online media to keep his storytelling current. Suzuki has indicated that he had already planned the ending for Sakamoto Days by 2022.