Sansuke Yamada

is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and musician. He is noted for his early career in gay manga, as the lead singer of the kayōkyoku group Tomari, and for his 2013 award-winning manga series .

Biography Yamada was born in 1972 in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. In 2010, Yamada contributed artwork to "FACE TO REAL", an art series organized to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Japan.

Areyo Hoshikuzu, Yamada's first long-form manga series created for a general audience, was serialized in Comic Beam from 2013 to 2018. The series, which follows two veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army in the aftermath of World War II, received widespread critical acclaim, winning a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize