Koji Inada

is a Japanese manga artist. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering. He is best known for Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (1989–1996), which he created with writer Riku Sanjo and is one of the best-selling manga in history with over 50 million copies sold. The two also created Beet the Vandel Buster (2002–2006, 2016–present), which has 4 million copies in print.

Career Koji Inada became interested in manga in middle school through Ashita no Joe. He read Shotaro Ishinomori's Mangaka Nyumon, and was drawing a lot of manga and submitting them to contests by the time he entered high school. making it one of the best-selling manga in history.

Inada and Sanjo continued to work together, and started Beet the Vandel Buster in Monthly Shōnen Jump in 2002. Inada became ill in September 2006, which led to a lengthy hiatus for the series from volume 12. Beet briefly returned in 2016 in Jump SQ.Crown, as Monthly Shōnen Jump had been discontinued. It fully resumed two years later, being serialized in Jump SQ.Rise since 2018. It has over 4 million copies in print.

Inada designed the characters Meiro and Damudo for the 2020 arcade game Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai – Xross Blade.

Works Short story collection Story by Riku Sanjo One-shot Story by Riku Sanjo Story by Riku Sanjo