Hideaki Sorachi
Hideaki Sorachi (born 1979 in Takikawa, Hokkaido) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2002 after 'Danderaion' won an honorable mention in the magazine's Tenkaichi Manga Award, and in December 2003 began 'Gin Tama', which ran for about fifteen years until its conclusion in 2019. In 2026 he returned to the magazine with a new series, 'Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz', his first serialization in about seven years.