Kenji Morita
Kenji Morita (1939–2024) was a Tokyo-born manga artist who spent his childhood in Manchukuo. A pupil of Tomohiko Oka, he debuted at 17 while still in high school and became popular with children's gag manga such as Marude Dameo, which won the Kodansha Children's Manga Award in 1964, and Robotan. He later also drew one-panel cartoons for adults, received the grand prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2005, and died in Yokohama in December 2024.