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is a Japanese manga artist from Miyagi. He is best known for illustrating the American football manga ''Eyeshield 21'', in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki. ''Eyeshield 21'' was serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', and was later adapted into an anime television series. Murata's other major work is his illustration of "ONE's" ''One-Punch Man'', serialized in the ''Weekly Young Jump'' online version. ==Biography== Murata was born on July 4, 1978 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. At the age of twelve, he entered a contest to design ''Mega Man'' villains and won twice, having final designs adapted from his sketches. The game credits list his name as responsible for Dust Man from ''Mega Man 4'' and Crystal Man from ''Mega Man 5''. Murata debuted as a professional manga artist in 1995 by publishing a one-shot titled ''Partner'' in a special edition of Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. For this work, he received the Hop Step Award. Murata published ''Samui Hanashi'' in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in June 1998, which won him the Akatsuka Award.〔 In February 2002, he published ''Kaitō Colt'' in the same magazine. When planning was underway to create ''Eyeshield 21'', the editorial department asked Riichiro Inagaki if he wanted to both write and draw the series, but Inagaki felt he was "so rookie". So Inagaki asked Murata to be the illustrator. In 2002, they published two one-shots called and on March 5 and 12 in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. The series began regular publication on July 23 of the same year in the same magazine. The series spanned 333 chapters, with the final chapter being published in June 15, 2009; the series was collected in 37 volumes. An anime adaptation, directed by Masayoshi Nishida and co-produced by TV Tokyo, NAS, and Gallop, aired from April 2005 to March 2008. Murata wrote and drew a one-shot titled ''Madofuki Park'' for the April 2008 issue (published on March 4) of ''Jump Square'', about a futuristic window washer. He also created the one-shot ''Blust!'', centered on a boy who was experimented on and obtained extraordinary powers from eating curry, which was published in April 2009. Murata created yet another one-shot featured in the ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' on June 21, 2010; titled ''Minds'', it was a story about a self-sacrificing soldier during a war, set in the future. Murata also illustrated the ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' 40th anniversary posters, which display the popular manga characters featured in the magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A Great Request- 40th Anniversary Poster )〕 Murata served as the artist for ''Donten Prism Solar Car'', which was written by Yasuo Ōtagaki (author of ''Moonlight Mile'') and was published in ''Jump Square'' between September 4, 2010 and June 4, 2011. It was later published by Shueisha in 2 volumes. In 2012, Murata published two one-shots along with a Japanese web comic author dubbed "One"; the first one, ''Dotō no Yūshatachi'', was released on April 1 in ''Weekly Young Jump'', and the second, ''Dangan Tenshi Fan Club'' was released on April 17 in ''Miracle Jump''. Murata started to collaborate with "One" on the remake of the webcomic ''One-Punch Man'', which started to be serialized in the online version of the ''Weekly Young Jump'' on June 14, 2012. Nine volumes have been released by Shueisha as of August 4, 2015. In November 2013, Murata was hired to be the character designer for the ''Majin Bone'' anime adaptation that began in April 2014. 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「Yusuke Murata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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