Shinobu Kaze

, pen name of Tomoaki Saitō ( is a Japanese mangaka.

His most well-known works, such as and Violence becomes Tranquility were influenced by French science fiction comics, such as Moebius and Philippe Druillet, as well as artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Seijun Suzuki and Tadanori Yokoo.

Biography Saitō was born in Yokosuka. In high school he drew comics and met a colleague who knew manga artist Go Nagai. They went to Nagai's studio Dynamic Pro. After graduation, Saitō began working as Nagai's assistant, and adopted the name Kaze Shinobu. He began assisting Nagai in titles like Kikkai-kun and Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko; in 1971 he launched his own gag comic; Hyakuen Byōin (100-yen Hospital). the latter ones were among the first original manga published in English into the US. Those one-shots were later recollected in the book Violence and Peace.