Katsuhisa Minami

Katsuhisa Minami is a Japanese manga artist and writer from Osaka Prefecture. He worked a variety of jobs after junior high school before debuting in 1999 with the street-racing series Naniwa Tomoare, which ran in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine.

In 2014 he began The Fable, a seinen series about a legendary assassin ordered to live an ordinary life, which won the general category of the Kodansha Manga Award in 2017 and inspired live-action films and an anime series. He continued it with The Fable: The Second Contact (2021 to 2023) and The Fable: The Third Secret (from 2025).