Tsutomu Takahashi

Tsutomu Takahashi (高橋ツトム) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo in 1965. He debuted in 1989 with the one-shot Jiraishin in Morning and went on to serialize it in Monthly Afternoon from 1992; it remains his best-known work, with a sequel, Jiraishin Diablo, in 2008. His other series include Alive, Skyhigh (adapted for television and film), Sidooh, Zankyō, Black-Box, NeuN and Jumbo Max. His stories are dark seinen dramas, often with a supernatural edge, and he is a winner of the Kodansha Manga Award (General).