Masaoki Shindo
Masaoki Shindo was born in 1998 in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Shindo received an honorable mention in the JUMP Treasure Newcomer Manga Award in 2016 for "Twin Peach" and won the 12th Gold Future Cup in 2017 with "Jorei-shi Rentarō no Yakusoku". RuriDragon, launched in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2022, went on hiatus that year for health reasons, resumed in 2024 and continued in the digital edition and on Shōnen Jump+, and it topped the 2023 Zenkoku Shoten'in ga Eranda Osusume Comic list.