Takeshi Matsu

is a Japanese gay manga artist.

Biography Matsu grew up in "a village of around one thousand people in the middle of nowhere" in Japan. He first encountered gay erotic artwork while in high school, after discovering the works of artists Gengoroh Tagame and Jiraiya in the gay men's magazines G-men, Badi, and Barazoku. Matsu broke into the manga industry as an artist of mainstream shōnen manga, but quit over frustrations with the industry's editorial processes. At the age of 30, Matsu broke into gay manga as an artist for the magazine Kinnuku-Otoko ( Muscleman), a magazine aimed at a crossover audience of male gay manga fans and female yaoi fans.

Matsu has described his art as depicting "happy guys": his works are often contrasted to the darker material of his peers, which frequently depict acts of BDSM or non-consensual sex. Gay manga artist Gengoroh Tagame has described Matsu's art as depicting "the kind of men we know (or at least wish we did) having fun, playful sex. This lovemaking has emotional depth without baggage."

Matsu was among the artists whose works were included in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, the first English-language anthology of gay manga, published by Fantagraphics Books in 2014.