Career He also later created a manga adaption of Ratchet & Clank. He began his career as an assistant to Kenshi Hirokane.
Achievements He is best known as the author of the yonkoma manga Tsurupika Hagemaru (つるピカハゲ丸, lit "Little Baldy Hagemaru"), which was adapted as a 58-episode anime television series and for which he received the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for children"s manga.