He was born on September 20, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, who is well known for his manga Jiraishin. As of March 2006, he is currently married and has one child. His alias is Ichigo Nekota.
He was once a guest lecturer at Ritsumeikan University back in 1998, giving a talk on "Expression".
Nihei Tsutomu and Sato Shuho used to be his assistants.
Shinshou was a disappointment after reading the original Sky High series. While the Art is still good, the extra freedom taken with plots is not enjoyable. In the original series there were rules on what the Gate Keeper could do, this time round in trying to make the story's exciting the rules were discarded. Still would have been fun read if i had not read the original first.