Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
島袋光年, しまぶくろみつとし
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Birth:May 19, 1975
Age:48
Gender:Male
Years active:1997-Present
Hometown:Okinawa, Japan
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut in 1996 in Weekly Shounen Jump and received a Akatsuka Award for best new comic manga writer. He is best known for Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi A Tale of a Leader in the End of the Century Takeshi 19972002 24 volumes for which he won the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for childrens manga. His current series is Toriko which began serialization in Shuukan Shounen Jump in 2008.
Shimabukuro is friends with Eiichiro Oda author of One Piece. SASAKI Takeshi was once an assistant.
In 2002 he was arrested and convicted of violating child prostitution laws including paying a 16yearold girl 80000 to have sex. As a result of the arrest Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi was cancelled by Shuukan Shounen Jump.
Source: MU
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