Actor

Masami Kurumada

Writing

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Movies: 9Series: 12Crew credits: 20

TMDB ID: 1255673

IMDb ID: nm1030700

Known for: Writing

Born: December 6, 1953

Age: 72

Place of birth: Tsukishima, Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1986 - 2023

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 7.57

Wikidata: Q725387

Also known as

車田正美 • 车田正美

Other jobs

Creator (9)Writer (4)Comic Book (3)Other (2)Original Concept (1)Original Story (1)

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Biography

Masami Kurumada (車田正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boy. He is the founder of the manga studio Kurumada Productions or Kurumadapro for short. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the true men. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with Saint Seiya and the best inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero.

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