Hitoshi Tomizawa

is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his sci-fi series Alien Nine.

Career Tomizawa worked as an assistant to Baki the Grappler author Keisuke Itagaki, before publishing his first work as a professional manga artist with the series Uchū Jūbe in the magazine Shōnen Champion.

Style and themes His manga tend to be short, with sci-fi stories involving children and insects. His art was a fairly standard style for his first series, but starting with Alien 9 it became very distinctive, but with very large eyes and unnatural proportions, and has since been featured in exhibitions including Takashi Murakami's superflat. In a short interview included within Alien 9s English-translated , he has cited Yoshiyuki Tomino, Mamoru Oshii, Katsuhiro Otomo, and science fiction authors Larry Niven and Robert Heinlein as influences of his.

Works (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion, 1994–1995) (serialized in Young Champion, 1998–1999) (serialized in Monthly Afternoon, 2000–2001) (serialized in Ultra Jump, 2000–2001) (serialized in Champion Red, 2002) (one-shot in Afternoon Season Zōkan, 2002) (serialized in Young Champion, 2003–2004, based on Koushun Takami) (serialized in Genzo, 2004–2007) (serialized in Manga Life Win, 2013–2014) (self-published, 2015–2016)