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is the pen name of Japanese manga artist , best known for his series ''Lupin III''. In April 2005 he became the professor of Manga Animation at Otemae University, in their Faculty of Media and Arts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Otemae University - Manga Production Department, Faculty of Media and Arts (Major) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Mangaka punches above his weight )〕 and was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Technology in May 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Tokyo University of Technology - Faculty of media )〕 He was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaidō and currently resides in Sakura, Chiba. ==Biography== Katō began drawing at a very young age, but did not draw manga until junior high school, when his manga strips were used in the school newspaper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Interview: Monkey Punch )〕 Katō first started to work as a professional manga artist, under the pen name , for a publisher that specialized in rental books and magazines. In 1965, he made his debut with ''Playboy School'', writing under the name of . The editor of the magazine that "discovered him" then suggested the pen name Monkey Punch.〔 Katō claims that he did not like the name, but agreed because it was his boss' idea and his next series was only supposed to be a three-month project.〔 When the series, ''Lupin III'', became popular, he was stuck with the name. ''Lupin III'' made its debut on August 10, 1967 in the first issue of the magazine ''Weekly Manga Action''. It went on to become an extremely popular and successful media franchise, spawning numerous manga, four animated television series, five animated feature films, a live-action film, three OVAs, yearly television specials since 1989, music CDs, video games, and a musical. Monkey Punch himself even directed the 1996 film, ''Dead or Alive''.〔 On April 21, 2007, Monkey Punch participated in a series of lectures on the "interaction of manga and culture throughout the world" at the Freer Gallery of Art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 "Manga to Anime: From Astro Boy to Spirited Away" at the Smithsonian )〕 In 2008, Monkey Punch was a judge at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Second International Manga Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Lau Wan Kit's Feel 100% Wins 2nd Int'l Manga Award )〕 He designed the characters for the pachinko game ''CR Ginroku Gijinden Roman'' in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Monkey Punch's Roman Phantom Thief Game Gets TV Anime )〕 The following year an anime adaptation of the game began airing on January 7, 2013, with Monkey Punch's designs adapted by Satoshi Hirayama, and was streamed with English subtitles on Crunchyroll.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Crunchyroll to Stream Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman TV Anime )〕 Monkey Punch participated in the writing of the 2014 live-action film adaptation of ''Lupin III''. Monkey Punch has acknowledged the influence of ''Mad'' magazine artists Mort Drucker and Sergio Aragonés on his work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monkey Punch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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