Harold Sakuishi

, better known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist. Sakuishi's interests include baseball, martial arts and music, each of which has been the basis for some of his manga; baseball in Stopper Busujima, fighting in Bakaichi, and music in Beck and The Band.

Career Takahiro Sakuishi was born in Aichi Prefecture on March 16, 1969. In 1987, his work Sōwaikan earned him an Excellent Newcomer Award at the 17th Tetsuya Chiba Awards. Sakuishi's first hit was the series Gorillaman, In 1990, it won the 14th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.

Sakuishi's baseball manga Stopper Busujima was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from 1996 to 1998. A special 77-page side-story was published on September 6 of that same year. Beck won Sakuishi the 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2002, and is the work he is best known for in the West.

Sakuishi worked with Shogakukan for the first time when he serialized Seven Shakespeares in their magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2009 to 2011.

Sakuishi serialized Rin in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 2013 to 2016. He then began a sequel to Seven Shakespeares, but with a new publisher in a new magazine; Seven Shakespeares: Non Sanz Droict began in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine that December. In 2020, it was announced that the series would be going on indefinite hiatus. Upload feat. Vocalist (2014, album cover)