Kai Takizawa

Kai Takizawa (real name Eiichirō Minamisawa; 13 May 1933 – January 2003) was a Tokyo-born playwright and manga writer. After graduating in drama from Waseda University's literature faculty he joined Shueisha as an editor of shōjo titles such as Ribon, leaving at 29 to become a freelance manga writer. Through the 1970s he wrote for artists including Fujio Akatsuka, Ryōichi Ikegami, Masami Fukushima and Kaiji Kawaguchi, and at Fujio Pro's gekiga division he produced long-form gekiga such as Guts 4 with Keiji Yoshitani.

• Guts 4 (1970)