Kazuya Yamamoto
Kazuya Yamamoto (born March 21, 1975) is a manga artist from Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture. He debuted in 1996 with "Kimi ga Mita Hoshi", a runner-up for Weekly Shōnen Jump's Tenka-ichi Manga Award, and once worked as an assistant to Yūsei Matsui; after his shōnen magazine career he turned mainly to pachislot manga under the name Kazuya Kazeya.