Kenichi Kotani
Kenichi Kotani (born February 10, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist from Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture. After working as an assistant to Yoshihiro Takahashi, he debuted at 23 with a one-shot published in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1977, made his serial debut with Watari Kyoshi in 1978, and began his best-known work Tennis Boy (story by Yu Terashima) in 1979. He has since worked mainly in Shueisha's manga magazines.