Naoshi Arakawa

is a Japanese manga artist, known for his work Your Lie in April.

Early life Naoshi Arakawa grew up in the countryside of Japan with an older brother. They used to get manga magazines like Weekly Shōnen Jump and Monthly Shōnen Magazine often, so he was exposed to manga from a young age. However, he elected not to tell anyone due to the conservative nature of his hometown and his shy personality. At the time, he was also working on a one-shot manga prototype, which would eventually become his second serial, Sayonara, Football. and was published in two volumes.

After finishing Sayonara, Football, he wanted to try something new. To find inspiration, he decided to go back to the original one-shot he entered in the contest. and was published in eleven volumes. It won the award for Best manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards. He also made a spinoff manga for the Japanese blu-ray release of the anime adaptation and was later published in format. He also did the illustrations for the light novel spinoff. Around this time, he also did an illustration for the endcard (the drawing at the end of the episode) for the fifth episode of Occultic;Nine.

For his next series, he decided to make a sequel to Sayonara, Football in the form of Farewell, My Dear Cramer. It ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 6, 2016, to December 4, 2020, and is being published in volumes, with fourteen having been released as of August 2022 (last release April 2021). A volume zero to Farewell, My Dear Cramer was also given out to people who saw the movie adaptation of Sayonara, Football in theaters.

On September 21, 2022, Arakawa released a preview for his new manga series, titled Atwight Game, in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It was serialized from September 28, 2022, to April 12, 2023.

Arakawa's next series, Orion's Board, began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on January 10, 2024.

Works Manga (2007–2009) (serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine) (2009–2010) (serialized in Magazine E-no) (2011–2015) (serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine) (2016) (included with the Japanese Blu-ray release of the main series' anime adaptation) (2016–2020) (serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine) (2022–2023) (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine) (2024–present) (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)

Other (2014) (illustrations) (2016) (episode 5 endcard)