Keiji Yoshitani
Keiji Yoshitani was born in 1937 in Itabashi, Tokyo, the son of children's manga artist Masaru Yoshitani. He debuted in 1954 with a rental-book (kashihon) volume, assisted Jirō Tsunoda, and in 1969 took part in founding the gekiga division of Fujio Akatsuka's Fujio Productions; his Kōkō Sasuraiha, published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, was adapted into a film. In 1974 he co-founded Family Kikaku with Mitsutoshi Furuya; his other works include Kōkōsei Burai Hikae, written by Kazuo Koike.