Masakazu Ishiguro

is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2000 with the one-shot Hero prior to launching And Yet the Town Moves in 2005, which won the Seiun Award for Best Comic and an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2018, he launched Heavenly Delusion, which topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's list of the top manga for male readers.

Biography Ishiguro was born in Fukui on September 8, 1977. Ishiguro was fond of Fujiko Fujio's works growing up, especially Doraemon. When Ishiguro was in middle school, his dad rented Akira from a rental store and watched it with Ishiguro, who cites it as a major influence over his work. Ishiguro later said that growing up he felt that becoming a manga artist was "the only way to go". Ishiguro eventually graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2001.

Just prior to graduation, Ishiguro submitted the one-shot Hero to Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine, which won the in 2000. Soon after, he left Monthly Afternoon and published one-shots and short series in other magazines. In 2018, Ishiguro returned to Monthly Afternoon with Heavenly Delusion, which also received an anime adaptation.

Ishiguro has stated that the post-apocalyptic world in Heavenly Delusion was inspired by his interest in Japan's reconstruction period following World War II, during which he studied declassified American photographic archives to realistically portray landscapes in ruins.

Works Series TitleYearMagazinePublisher(s)Notes 2004–2006 Monthly Comic Flapper Media Factory With Jun Kashima 2005–2016 Young King OURs Shōnen Gahōsha 2006–2008 Monthly Comic Ryū Tokuma Shoten 2008–2011 Mephisto Kodansha 2008–2010 Monthly Comic Ryū Tokuma Shoten 2009–present Weekly Shōnen Champion Akita Shoten 2018–present Monthly Afternoon Kodansha 2019–present Bessatsu Shōnen Champion Akita Shoten

Anthologies TitleYearPublisher(s)Notes Present for Me 2007 Shōnen Gahōsha 2007 Tokuma Shoten 2010 Tokuma Shoten 2013 17th Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division Excellence Award And Yet the Town Moves 2017 Da Vinci Book of the Year And Yet the Town Moves 2018 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Best Manga for Male Readers And Yet the Town Moves 2018 49th Seiun Award Best Comic And Yet the Town Moves 2018 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize And Yet the Town Moves 2019 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Best Manga for Male Readers Heavenly Delusion 2023 Japan Expo Awards Daruma Award for the Best Screenplay Heavenly Delusion